2007 World Championships in Athletics – Men's javelin throw
# 2007 World Championships in Athletics – Men's javelin throw

The Men's Javelin Throw event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 31, 2007 (qualification round) and 2 September 2007 (final round) at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan. There were a total number of 36 competing athletes from 22 countries.

## Medalists

| Gold | Tero Pitkämäki Finland (FIN) |
| - | - |
| Silver | Andreas Thorkildsen Norway (NOR) |
| Bronze | Breaux Greer United States (USA) |

## Schedule

* All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Qualification Round :

| Group A | Group B |
| - | - |
| 31.08.2007 – 09:30h | 31.08.2007 – 11:30h |
| Final Round ||
| 02.09.2007 – 19:15h ||

## Abbreviations

| Q | automatic qualification |
| - | - |
| q | qualification by rank |
| DNS | did not start |
| NM | no mark |
| WR | world record |
| AR | area record |
| NR | national record |
| PB | personal best |
| SB | season best |

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2007 World Athletics Championships :

| World Record | Jan Železný (CZE) | 98.48 m | May 25, 1996 | Jena, Germany |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Event Record | Jan Železný (CZE) | 92.80 m | August 12, 2001 | Edmonton, Canada |
| Season Best | Breaux Greer (USA) | 91.29 m | June 21, 2007 | Indianapolis, United States |

## Qualification

### Group A

| Place | Athlete | Nation | 1 | 2 | 3 | Mark | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Breaux Greer | United States (USA) | 64.49 | 79.67 | 86.78 | 86.78 | Q |
| 2 | Tero Järvenpää | Finland (FIN) | 84.35 | | | 84.35 | Q SB |
| 3 | Magnus Arvidsson | Sweden (SWE) | 84.17 | | | 84.17 | Q |
| 4 | Andreas Thorkildsen | Norway (NOR) | X | 82.33 | | 82.33 | Q |
| 5 | Teemu Wirkkala | Finland (FIN) | 75.52 | X | 79.82 | 79.82 | q |
| 6 | Ēriks Rags | Latvia (LAT) | X | X | 79.79 | 79.79 | q |
| 7 | Gerhardus Pienaar | South Africa (RSA) | 76.09 | 79.30 | 78.05 | 79.30 | |
| 8 | Igor Sukhomlinov | Russia (RUS) | 79.05 | 74.83 | X | 79.05 | |
| 9 | Joshua Robinson | Australia (AUS) | 75.11 | 76.93 | 78.48 | 78.48 | |
| 10 | Sergey Makarov | Russia (RUS) | 78.22 | 77.71 | 74.42 | 78.22 | |
| 11 | Stuart Farquhar | New Zealand (NZL) | 71.89 | 78.08 | 73.34 | 78.08 | SB |
| 12 | Pablo Pietrobelli | Argentina (ARG) | 72.36 | 74.81 | 74.60 | 74.81 | |
| 13 | Stephan Steding | Germany (GER) | 67.32 | X | 74.61 | 74.61 | |
| 14 | Miroslav Guzdek | Czech Republic (CZE) | 74.13 | 72.41 | 69.43 | 74.13 | |
| 15 | Stefan Müller | Switzerland (SUI) | X | 71.48 | X | 71.48 | |
| 16 | Marko Jänes | Estonia (EST) | X | 68.64 | 69.65 | 69.65 | |
| 17 | Csongor Olteán | Hungary (HUN) | X | 64.44 | X | 64.44 | |

### Group B

| Place | Athlete | Nation | 1 | 2 | 3 | Mark | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Vadims Vasilevskis | Latvia (LAT) | X | 72.80 | 87.37 | 87.37 | Q |
| 2 | Guillermo Martínez | Cuba (CUB) | 82.99 | | | 82.99 | Q |
| 3 | Aleksandr Ivanov | Russia (RUS) | X | 79.66 | 82.42 | 82.42 | Q |
| 4 | John Robert Oosthuizen | South Africa (RSA) | X | 82.06 | | 82.06 | Q |
| 5 | Igor Janik | Poland (POL) | 80.83 | 77.61 | - | 80.83 | q |
| 6 | Tero Pitkämäki | Finland (FIN) | 80.62 | 78.54 | X | 80.62 | q |
| 7 | Peter Esenwein | Germany (GER) | 73.74 | 70.89 | 79.62 | 79.62 | |
| 8 | Ainārs Kovals | Latvia (LAT) | X | 77.18 | 79.42 | 79.42 | |
| 9 | Qin Qiang | China (CHN) | 77.71 | 74.96 | 74.95 | 77.71 | |
| 10 | Yukifumi Murakami | Japan (JPN) | 70.23 | 77.63 | 75.73 | 77.63 | SB |
| 11 | Jarrod Bannister | Australia (AUS) | 77.57 | X | 77.44 | 77.57 | |
| 12 | Scott Russell | Canada (CAN) | 73.67 | 75.35 | 77.54 | 77.54 | |
| 13 | Andrus Värnik | Estonia (EST) | X | 75.96 | X | 75.96 | SB |
| 14 | Alexon Maximiano | Brazil (BRA) | 68.89 | 70.57 | 75.15 | 75.15 | |
| 15 | Víctor Fatecha | Paraguay (PAR) | 71.59 | 73.55 | 70.01 | 73.55 | |
| 16 | Eric Brown | United States (USA) | 70.38 | X | 73.07 | 73.07 | |
| 17 | Felix Loretz | Switzerland (SUI) | 71.27 | 70.57 | 67.79 | 71.27 | |
| 18 | Gabriel Wallin | Sweden (SWE) | X | X | 70.61 | 70.61 | |

## Final

Field reduced to top eight are three throws, with top eight entitled to a further three attempts.

| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Attempts | Distance | Note |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Distance | Note |
| | Tero Pitkämäki | Finland (FIN) | 81.62 | 89.16 | 83.64 | 87.72 | X | 90.33 | 90.33 m | |
| | Andreas Thorkildsen | Norway (NOR) | 82.78 | 88.61 | X | 82.80 | X | 87.33 | 88.61 m | |
| | Breaux Greer | United States (USA) | X | 80.67 | 84.31 | X | 86.21 | 83.81 | 86.21 m | |
| 4 | Vadims Vasilevskis | Latvia (LAT) | X | 85.19 | X | 77.42 | X | X | 85.19 m | |
| 5 | Aleksandr Ivanov | Russia (RUS) | 85.18 | 84.71 | 81.42 | 84.91 | 81.55 | X | 85.18 m | |
| 6 | John Robert Oosthuizen | South Africa (RSA) | 84.52 | 79.77 | X | 79.18 | X | X | 84.52 m | PB |
| 7 | Igor Janik | Poland (POL) | 79.82 | X | 83.38 | X | — | X | 83.38 m | PB |
| 8 | Tero Järvenpää | Finland (FIN) | 80.30 | 79.40 | 82.10 | X | 77.30 | 75.40 | 82.10 m | |
| 9 | Guillermo Martínez | Cuba (CUB) | 82.03 | 81.19 | X | | | | 82.03 m | |
| 10 | Magnus Arvidsson | Sweden (SWE) | 79.80 | X | 81.98 | | | | 81.98 m | |
| 11 | Ēriks Rags | Latvia (LAT) | X | 77.22 | 80.01 | | | | 80.01 m | |
| 12 | Teemu Wirkkala | Finland (FIN) | 78.01 | X | 76.48 | | | | 78.01 m | |
