2007 World Championships in Athletics – Men's discus throw

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)

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

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

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

Place	Athlete	Nation	Mark
	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