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Events at the 2007 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's discus throw event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 26, 2007 (qualification) and August 28, 2007 (final) at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan.

Medallists

Gold	Gerd Kanter  Estonia (EST)
Silver	Robert Harting  Germany (GER)
Bronze	Rutger Smith  Netherlands (NED)

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Records

World record	Jürgen Schult (GDR)	74.08	Neubrandenburg, East Germany	6 June 1986
Championship record	Virgilijus Alekna (LTU)	70.17	Helsinki, Finland	7 August 2005

Results

Qualification

Group A

Place	Athlete	Nation	1	2	3	Mark	Notes
1	Gerd Kanter	Estonia (EST)	56.59	58.81	67.45	67.45	Q
2	Rutger Smith	Netherlands (NED)	64.06	66.60		66.60	Q PB
3	Zoltán Kővágó	Hungary (HUN)	62.09	65.71		65.71	Q
4	Piotr Małachowski	Poland (POL)	63.00	62.45	63.20	63.20	q
5	Mario Pestano	Spain (ESP)	62.36	63.10	X	63.10	q
6	Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari	Qatar (QAT)	62.68	X	61.47	62.68	q
7	Ian Waltz	United States (USA)	X	62.67	61.62	62.67
8	Sultan Mubarak Al-Dawoodi	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	59.14	X	61.23	61.23
9	Vikas Gowda	India (IND)	61.22	X	X	61.22
10	Bogdan Pishchalnikov	Russia (RUS)	X	59.32	61.13	61.13
11	Frantz Kruger	Finland (FIN)	X	X	60.72	60.72
12	Märt Israel	Estonia (EST)	59.92	60.23	60.18	60.23
13	Sergiu Ursu	Romania (ROM)	X	X	59.22	59.22
14	Shigeo Hatakeyama	Japan (JPN)	52.51	55.71	54.23	55.71
15	Ercüment Olgundeniz	Turkey (TUR)	X	54.89	54.62	54.89

Group B

Place	Athlete	Nation	1	2	3	Mark	Notes
1	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania (LTU)	X	63.70	66.54	66.54	Q
2	Robert Harting	Germany (GER)	66.26			66.26	Q
3	Gábor Máté	Hungary (HUN)	65.13			65.13	Q
4	Aleksander Tammert	Estonia (EST)	64.41	−	−	64.41	q SB
5	Omar Ahmed El Ghazaly	Egypt (EGY)	X	63.56	X	63.56	q
6	Ehsan Haddadi	Iran (IRI)	62.75	61.44	62.00	62.75	q
7	Mikko Kyyrö	Finland (FIN)	62.11	61.75	X	62.11
8	Jarred Rome	United States (USA)	X	X	61.87	61.87
9	Michael Robertson	United States (USA)	60.15	X	60.39	60.39
10	Hannes Kirchler	Italy (ITA)	57.09	60.28	60.34	60.34
11	Erik Cadee	Netherlands (NED)	58.78	59.98	56.99	59.98
12	Stanislav Nesterovskyy	Ukraine (UKR)	56.00	59.81	57.56	59.81
13	Niklas Arrhenius	Sweden (SWE)	54.98	55.18	58.76	58.76
14	Jason Morgan	Jamaica (JAM)	55.32	52.93	53.67	55.32

Final

Place	Athlete	Nation	Mark	Notes
	Gerd Kanter	Estonia (EST)	68.94
	Robert Harting	Germany (GER)	66.68
	Rutger Smith	Netherlands (NED)	66.42
4	Virgilijus Alekna	Lithuania (LTU)	65.24
5	Gábor Máté	Hungary (HUN)	64.71
6	Omar Ahmed El Ghazaly	Egypt (EGY)	64.58
7	Ehsan Haddadi	Iran (IRI)	64.53
8	Aleksander Tammert	Estonia (EST)	64.33
9	Zoltán Kővágó	Hungary (HUN)	63.04
10	Mario Pestano	Spain (ESP)	62.70
11	Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari	Qatar (QAT)	62.60
12	Piotr Małachowski	Poland (POL)	60.77

References

• Official results, qualification - IAAF.org
• Official results, final - IAAF.org

• Events at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics
• Discus throw at the World Athletics Championships