2007 World Championships in Athletics

2007 World Championships in Athletics

Host city	Osaka, Japan
Nations	199
Athletes	1,817
Events	47
Dates	24 August – 2 September 2007
Opened by	Emperor Akihito
Closed by	IAAF President Lamine Diack
Main venue	Nagai Stadium

The 11th World Championships in Athletics, (Japanese: 2007年世界陸上競技選手権大会) under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), were held at Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan from 24 August to 2 September 2007. 200 of the IAAF's 212 member federations entered a total of 1,978 athletes, the greatest number of competitors at any World Championships to date.^[1][2] Sarah Brightman, the world's best-selling soprano, performed her single Running at the opening ceremony.

Bidding process

Having bid unsuccessfully to host the 2008 Summer Olympics,^[3] Osaka was one of three cities to express an interest in hosting the 2007 World Championships alongside Budapest, Hungary and Berlin, Germany. By the IAAF's October 1, 2002 deadline, Budapest and Berlin had both withdrawn their bids, and Osaka was announced as the host city on November 15, 2002, as the sole remaining candidate.^[4] Berlin later bid successfully for the 2009 World Championships.^[5]

Major themes

Doping concerns

The IAAF stepped up its "war on doping" at the Osaka games, and for the first time, the number of drug tests exceeded 1,000.^[6] The IAAF lobbied the World Anti-Doping Agency to adopt stiffer penalties for first-time doping offences in WADA's code of practice.^[7] Before the Championships, former Olympic champion Ed Moses had voiced concerns about the extent of doping in the sport, and had even predicted that a medallist at the event would be found to have taken a banned substance.^[8] Despite these fears, the IAAF announced that only one of the samples taken over the course of the Championships was "suspicious" and required more examination.^[9] The governing body refused to elaborate further until more was known, but the French hurdler Naman Keïta admitted to having failed a drug test.^[10] The IAAF later confirmed that Keïta had tested positive for testosterone in an out-of-competition test at a training camp, and labelled the World Championships 'drug-free'.^[11]

Weather conditions

The Championships were held during an unseasonably hot summer in Japan, in contrast to the cool, wet and windy conditions of Helsinki two years earlier.^[12] Temperatures earlier in the month had reached 40 °C (104 °F), killing several people.^[13] Temperatures had eased somewhat by the start of the event,^[14] but with early-morning temperatures around 30 °C and humidity high, the IAAF maintained a colour-coded advisory scale warning of the risk of heat stroke.^[15] Casualties of the heat were not as high as initially feared, but dozens of athletes failed to finish the walks and marathons and a few did require medical treatment.^[14] Some athletes in shorter events blamed poor performances on the difficult conditions.^[16]

Attendance

Concerns had been raised in the week running up to the Championships about the low level of ticket sales – only 46% of seats had been filled by August 20.^[17] The Nagai Stadium was less than half full for the opening ceremony, and there were around 15,000 empty seats on the night of the men's 100 m final.^[18] A number of reasons were cited for the poor attendance, including high ticket prices (especially since the streets were lined during the marathons),^[18][19] the hot weather^[19] and the disappointing performance of the Japanese team.^[19] IAAF vice-president Sebastian Coe also suggested that the length of the Championships may have to be shortened in future to sustain the public's interest.^[20]

Notable performances

Despite no world records being broken, the Championships saw a number of significant personal and team achievements. The United States dominated the overall standings ahead of Kenya and Russia, equalling its best ever medal haul (first achieved in 1991) with 26, fourteen of them golds. The U.S. also set another Championship first by triumphing in all four relay races.^[21] These accomplishments were highlighted by three individual performances: Tyson Gay and Allyson Felix collected three gold medals each (Gay in the 100 and 200 metres and the 4 × 100 m relay, Felix in the 200 m and the two women's relays), a feat previously achieved only by Marita Koch, Carl Lewis and Maurice Greene;^[21] while Kenyan-born Bernard Lagat became the first man to win both the 1500 and 5000 m titles at the same World Championships.^[22] Perhaps the most unlikely American medal came from 110 m hurdler David Payne, who as first alternate had not travelled to Osaka with the rest of the team. After Dominique Arnold withdrew from the event with an injury, Payne only arrived in Japan the night before the heats, and proceeded to move through the rounds before taking bronze with a personal best.^[22]

Amongst prominent European successes were Swede Carolina Klüft's third consecutive world heptathlon title with a European record score, the victory of 39-year-old German Franka Dietzsch in the discus, which made her the second-oldest world champion ever^[23] and Nelson Évora's win in the triple jump, beating world-leading Brazilian Jadel Gregorio and defending champion Walter Davis. Christine Ohuruogu of Great Britain and Northern Ireland claimed a surprise gold in the women's 400 metres, less than a month after the expiry of a year-long ban imposed for missing three drug tests,^[24] while high jumper Kyriakos Ioannou claimed the first ever medal for Cyprus in a World Championships.^[25] Russia's Tatyana Lebedeva just missed out on an unprecedented long jump/triple jump double, but still ended up with a gold and a silver medal.^[26]

African countries were typically well represented in the middle and long-distance events, with Kenyans claiming both the men's and women's marathon titles and Ethiopia winning three golds.

Chinese athlete Liu Xiang, the only sprinter of non-African origin to clock sub-13 second 110m hurdles, took the gold medal at this event with a time of 12.95 seconds.

World Record Holders for the 20 km Walk, Jefferson Pérez, and 50 km Walk, Nathan Deakes, both won their respective events, confirming their dominance of the event. In Perez's case, this was his third World Championship Gold Medal in a row.

Host nation Japan gained its only medal on the final day with a bronze for Reiko Tosa in the women's marathon.

• 
  From opening ceremony
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  110 m hurdles heat in the men's decathlon
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  Japanese athlete is carried away after the 50 km walk.
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  American women's 4 × 400 m relay team celebrate.

Participating Nations

•  Afghanistan (2)
•  Albania (1)
•  Algeria (10)
•  American Samoa (1)
•  Andorra (2)
•  Angola (2)
•  Anguilla (2)
•  Antigua and Barbuda (2)
•  Argentina (6)
•  Armenia (1)
•  Australia (44)
•  Austria (3)
•  Azerbaijan (1)
•  Bahamas (16)
•  Bahrain (10)
•  Bangladesh (1)
•  Barbados (2)
•  Belarus (27)
•  Belgium (17)
•  Belize (2)
•  Benin (2)
•  Bolivia (2)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (2)
•  Botswana (8)
•  Brazil (42)
•  British Virgin Islands (1)
•  Brunei (1)
•  Bulgaria (10)
•  Burkina Faso (2)
•  Burundi (2)
•  Cambodia (2)
•  Cameroon (2)
•  Canada (24)
•  Cape Verde (2)
•  Cayman Islands (1)
•  Central African Republic (2)
•  Chad (2)
•  Chile (1)
•  China (54)
•  Chinese Taipei (3)
•  Colombia (7)
•  Democratic Republic of the Congo (2)
•  Cook Islands (2)
•  Costa Rica (2)
•  Croatia (4)
•  Cuba (32)
•  Cyprus (2)
•  Czech Republic (21)
•  Denmark (5)
•  Djibouti (2)
•  Dominica (1)
•  Dominican Republic (5)
•  Ecuador (7)
•  Egypt (4)
•  El Salvador (2)
•  Equatorial Guinea (2)
•  Eritrea (4)
•  Estonia (10)
•  Ethiopia (32)
•  Fiji (2)
•  Finland (24)
•  France (45)
•  French Polynesia (2)
•  Gabon (2)
•  The Gambia (2)
•  Georgia (1)
•  Germany (56)
•  Ghana (6)
•  Gibraltar (1)
•  Great Britain and Northern Ireland (50)
•  Greece (25)
•  Grenada (3)
•  Guam (2)
•  Guatemala (1)
•  Guinea (1)
•  Guinea-Bissau (2)
•  Guyana (3)
•  Haiti (3)
•  Honduras (2)
•  Hong Kong (2)
•  Hungary (11)
•  Iceland (1)
•  India (10)
•  Indonesia (2)
•  Iran (2)
•  Iraq (1)
•  Ireland (15)
•  Israel (7)
•  Italy (34)
•  Ivory Coast (2)
•  Jamaica (42)
•  Japan (77)
•  Jordan (1)
•  Kazakhstan (15)
•  Kenya (37)
•  Kiribati (2)
•  Kuwait (2)
•  Laos (1)
•  Latvia (11)
•  Lebanon (1)
•  Lesotho (2)
•  Liberia (1)
•  Libya (1)
•  Liechtenstein (2)
•  Lithuania (6)
•  Macau (2)
•  Macedonia (2)
•  Madagascar (2)
•  Malawi (2)
•  Malaysia (1)
•  Maldives (2)
•  Mali (3)
•  Malta (2)
•  Mauritania (2)
•  Mauritius (2)
•  Mexico (24)
•  Federated States of Micronesia (2)
•  Moldova (3)
•  Monaco (1)
•  Mongolia (2)
•  Montenegro (2)
•  Montserrat (1)
•  Morocco (29)
•  Mozambique (2)
•  Myanmar (2)
•  Namibia (2)
•  Nauru (2)
•  Nepal (1)
•  Netherlands (9)
•  Netherlands Antilles (1)
•  New Zealand (10)
•  Nicaragua (2)
•  Niger (1)
•  Nigeria (22)
•  Norfolk Island (1)
•  Northern Mariana Islands (2)
•  Norway (14)
•  Pakistan (2)
•  Palau (2)
•  Palestine (2)
•  Panama (2)
•  Papua New Guinea (2)
•  Paraguay (1)
•  Peru (1)
•  Philippines (1)
•  Poland (48)
•  Portugal (24)
•  Puerto Rico (2)
•  Qatar (12)
•  Romania (29)
•  Russia (101)
•  Rwanda (2)
•  Saint Kitts and Nevis (2)
•  Saint Lucia (1)
•  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (2)
•  Samoa (2)
•  San Marino (2)
•  São Tomé and Príncipe (1)
•  Saudi Arabia (10)
•  Senegal (3)
•  Serbia (6)
•  Seychelles (2)
•  Sierra Leone (1)
•  Singapore (2)
•  Slovakia (18)
•  Slovenia (13)
•  Solomon Islands (2)
•  Somalia (2)
•  South Africa (26)
•  South Korea (11)
•  Spain (46)
•  Sri Lanka (1)
•  Sudan (6)
•  Suriname (2)
•  Swaziland (2)
•  Sweden (29)
•  Switzerland (12)
•  Syria (1)
•  Tajikistan (2)
•  Tanzania (6)
•  Thailand (2)
•  Togo (1)
•  Tonga (2)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (9)
•  Tunisia (3)
•  Turkey (13)
•  Turkmenistan (2)
•  Uganda (9)
•  Ukraine (42)
•  United Arab Emirates (1)
•  United States (130)
•  Uruguay (2)
•  Uzbekistan (4)
•  Vanuatu (2)
•  Venezuela (2)
•  Virgin Islands (1)
•  Yemen (2)
•  Zambia (2)
•  Zimbabwe (5)

Men's results

Track

2003 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Tyson Gay  United States (USA)	9.85	Derrick Atkins  Bahamas (BAH)	9.91 NR	Asafa Powell  Jamaica (JAM)	9.96
200 metres details	Tyson Gay  United States (USA)	19.76 CR	Usain Bolt  Jamaica (JAM)	19.91	Wallace Spearmon  United States (USA)	20.05
400 metres details	Jeremy Wariner  United States (USA)	43.45 WL PB	LaShawn Merritt  United States (USA)	43.96 PB	Angelo Taylor  United States (USA)	44.32
800 metres details	Alfred Kirwa Yego  Kenya (KEN)	1:47.09	Gary Reed  Canada (CAN)	1:47.10	Yuriy Borzakovskiy  Russia (RUS)	1:47.39
1500 metres details	Bernard Lagat  United States (USA)	3:34.77	Rashid Ramzi  Bahrain (BHR)	3:35.00 SB	Shedrack Kibet Korir  Kenya (KEN)	3:35.04
5000 metres details	Bernard Lagat  United States (USA)	13:45.87	Eliud Kipchoge  Kenya (KEN)	13:46.00	Moses Kipsiro  Uganda (UGA)	13:46.75
10,000 metres details	Kenenisa Bekele  Ethiopia (ETH)	27:05.90 SB	Sileshi Sihine  Ethiopia (ETH)	27:09.03	Martin Mathathi  Kenya (KEN)	27:12.17
Marathon details	Luke Kibet  Kenya (KEN)	2:15:59	Mubarak Hassan Shami  Qatar (QAT)	2:17:18	Viktor Röthlin  Switzerland (SUI)	2:17:25
110 metres hurdles details	Liu Xiang  China (CHN)	12.95	Terrence Trammell  United States (USA)	12.99	David Payne  United States (USA)	13.02 PB
400 metres hurdles details	Kerron Clement  United States (USA)	47.61 WL	Félix Sánchez  Dominican Republic (DOM)	48.01 SB	Marek Plawgo  Poland (POL)	48.12 NR
3000 metres steeplechase details	Brimin Kipruto  Kenya (KEN)	8:13.82	Ezekiel Kemboi  Kenya (KEN)	8:16.94	Richard Mateelong  Kenya (KEN)	8:17.59
20 kilometres walk details	Jefferson Pérez  Ecuador (ECU)	1:22:20	Paquillo Fernández  Spain (ESP)	1:22:40	Hatem Ghoula  Tunisia (TUN)	1:22:40
50 kilometres walk details	Nathan Deakes  Australia (AUS)	3:43:53 SB	Yohann Diniz  France (FRA)	3:44:22 SB	Alex Schwazer  Italy (ITA)	3:44:38
4 x 100 metres relay details	United States (USA) Darvis Patton Wallace Spearmon Tyson Gay Leroy Dixon Rodney Martin*	37.78 WL	Jamaica (JAM) Marvin Anderson Usain Bolt Nesta Carter Asafa Powell Dwight Thomas* Steve Mullings*	37.89 NR	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) Christian Malcolm Craig Pickering Marlon Devonish Mark Lewis-Francis	37.90 SB
4 x 400 metres relay details	United States (USA) LaShawn Merritt Angelo Taylor Darold Williamson Jeremy Wariner Bershawn Jackson* Kerron Clement*	2:55.56 WL	Bahamas (BAH) Avard Moncur Michael Mathieu Andrae Williams Chris Brown Nathaniel McKinney*	2:59.18 SB	Poland (POL) Marek Plawgo Daniel Dąbrowski Marcin Marciniszyn Kacper Kozłowski Rafał Wieruszewski* Witold Bańka*	3:00.05 SB
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

Field

2003 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Donald Thomas  Bahamas (BAH)	2.35 WL	Yaroslav Rybakov  Russia (RUS)	2.35 WL	Kyriakos Ioannou  Cyprus (CYP)	2.35 WL
Pole vault details	Brad Walker  United States (USA)	5.86	Romain Mesnil  France (FRA)	5.86 SB	Danny Ecker  Germany (GER)	5.81
Long jump details	Irving Saladino  Panama (PAN)	8.57 AR	Andrew Howe  Italy (ITA)	8.47 NR	Dwight Phillips  United States (USA)	8.30
Triple jump details	Nelson Évora  Portugal (POR)	17.74 NR	Jadel Gregório  Brazil (BRA)	17.59	Walter Davis  United States (USA)	17.33 SB
Shot put details	Reese Hoffa  United States (USA)	22.04	Adam Nelson  United States (USA)	21.61 SB	Rutger Smith  Netherlands (NED)	21.13
					Andrei Mikhnevich  Belarus (BLR)	21.27
Discus throw details	Gerd Kanter  Estonia (EST)	68.94	Robert Harting  Germany (GER)	66.68	Rutger Smith  Netherlands (NED)	66.42
Javelin throw details	Tero Pitkämäki  Finland (FIN)	90.33	Andreas Thorkildsen  Norway (NOR)	88.61	Breaux Greer  United States (USA)	86.21
Hammer throw details	Ivan Tsikhan  Belarus (BLR)	83.63 WL	Primož Kozmus  Slovenia (SLO)	82.29	Libor Charfreitag  Slovakia (SVK)	81.60 SB
Decathlon details	Roman Šebrle  Czech Republic (CZE)	8676	Maurice Smith  Jamaica (JAM)	8644 NR	Dmitriy Karpov  Kazakhstan (KAZ)	8586 SB
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Women's results

Track

2003 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 metres details	Veronica Campbell  Jamaica (JAM)	11.01	Lauryn Williams  United States (USA)	11.01 SB	Carmelita Jeter  United States (USA)	11.02 PB
200 metres details	Allyson Felix  United States (USA)	21.81 WL	Veronica Campbell  Jamaica (JAM)	22.34 SB	Susanthika Jayasinghe  Sri Lanka (SRI)	22.63
400 metres details	Christine Ohuruogu  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	49.61 PB	Nicola Sanders  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	49.65 PB	Novlene Williams  Jamaica (JAM)	49.66 SB
800 metres details	Janeth Jepkosgei  Kenya (KEN)	1:56.04 WL	Hasna Benhassi  Morocco (MAR)	1:56.99	Mayte Martínez  Spain (ESP)	1:57.62 PB
1500 metres details	Maryam Yusuf Jamal  Bahrain (BHR)	3:58.75 SB	Iryna Lishchynska  Ukraine (UKR)	4:00.69 SB	Daniela Yordanova  Bulgaria (BUL)	4:00.82 SB
			Yelena Soboleva  Russia (RUS)	3:58.99
5000 metres details	Meseret Defar  Ethiopia (ETH)	14:57.91	Vivian Cheruiyot  Kenya (KEN)	14:58.50	Priscah Jepleting Cherono  Kenya (KEN)	14:59.21
10,000 metres details	Tirunesh Dibaba  Ethiopia (ETH)	31:55.41 SB	Kara Goucher  United States (USA)	32:02.05 SB	Jo Pavey  Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	32:03.81
			Elvan Abeylegesse  Turkey (TUR)	31:59.40
Marathon details	Catherine Ndereba  Kenya (KEN)	2:30:37	Zhou Chunxiu  China (CHN)	2:30:45	Reiko Tosa  Japan (JPN)	2:30:55
100 metres hurdles details	Michelle Perry  United States (USA)	12.46	Perdita Felicien  Canada (CAN)	12.49 SB	Delloreen Ennis-London  Jamaica (JAM)	12.50 PB
400 metres hurdles details	Jana Rawlinson  Australia (AUS)	53.31 SB	Yuliya Pechenkina  Russia (RUS)	53.50 SB	Anna Jesień  Poland (POL)	53.92
3000 metres steeplechase details	Yekaterina Volkova  Russia (RUS)	9:06.57 CR PB	Tatyana Petrova  Russia (RUS)	9:09.19 PB	Eunice Jepkorir  Kenya (KEN)	9:20.09
20 kilometres walk details	Olga Kaniskina  Russia (RUS)	1:30:09	Tatyana Shemyakina  Russia (RUS)	1:30:42	María Vasco  Spain (ESP)	1:30:47
4 x 100 metres relay details	United States (USA) Lauryn Williams Allyson Felix Mikele Barber Torri Edwards Carmelita Jeter* Mechelle Lewis*	41.98 WL	Jamaica (JAM) Sheri-Ann Brooks Kerron Stewart Simone Facey Veronica Campbell Shelly-Ann Fraser*	42.01 SB	Belgium (BEL) Olivia Borlée Hanna Mariën Élodie Ouédraogo Kim Gevaert	42.75 NR
4 x 400 metres relay details	United States (USA) DeeDee Trotter Allyson Felix Mary Wineberg Sanya Richards Monique Hennagan* Natasha Hastings*	3:18.55 WL	Jamaica (JAM) Shericka Williams Shereefa Lloyd Davita Prendergast Novlene Williams Anastasia Le-Roy*	3:19.73 NR	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR) Christine Ohuruogu Marilyn Okoro Lee McConnell Nicola Sanders Donna Fraser*	3:20.04 NR
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

Field

2003 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
High jump details	Blanka Vlašić  Croatia (CRO)	2.05	Antonietta Di Martino  Italy (ITA) Anna Chicherova  Russia (RUS)	2.03 NR 2.03 PB
	After an outstanding season, Vlašić was the big favourite coming into the final, and she did not disappoint. Di Martino and Chicherova gave the Croatian a run for her money though, as they both cleared 2.03 and shared second place. With Russians Slesarenko and Savchenko both clearing 2.00, this was the first ever women's high jump competition with 5 jumpers over 2.00 and also the first ever with 3 jumpers clearing 2.03.
Pole vault details	Yelena Isinbayeva  Russia (RUS)	4.80	Kateřina Baďurová  Czech Republic (CZE)	4.75 NR	Svetlana Feofanova  Russia (RUS)	4.75
	Isinbayeva was the only one to vault over 4.80 m. Then she attacked the world record trying to jump 5.02 m, but failed. Three athletes beat the height of 4.75 m, but only Baďurová succeeded with her first attempt, taking silver. Feofanova took bronze, beating Monika Pyrek thanks to her better first attempt on 4.70 m.
Long jump details	Tatyana Lebedeva  Russia (RUS)	7.03	Lyudmila Kolchanova  Russia (RUS)	6.92	Tatyana Kotova  Russia (RUS)	6.90 SB
	Lebedeva twice jumped 7.03 m to head a Russian clean sweep of the medals.
Triple jump details	Yargelis Savigne  Cuba (CUB)	15.28 WL	Tatyana Lebedeva  Russia (RUS)	15.07	Marija Šestak  Slovenia (SLO)	14.72
	Lebedeva's dominance of the event and her hopes of an unprecedented long jump/triple jump double were ended by Savigne, whose opening jump of 15.28 m proved decisive.
Shot put details	Valerie Vili  New Zealand (NZL)	20.54 WL / AR	Nadine Kleinert  Germany (GER)	19.77 SB	Li Ling  China (CHN)	19.38 PB
	Astapchuk lead throughout the rounds but Vili responded in the final round with a 20.54 throw. Astapchuk's last round effort of 20.48 was not enough to catch the New Zealander, who set a Commonwealth record.
Discus throw details	Franka Dietzsch  Germany (GER)	66.61	Yarelis Barrios  Cuba (CUB)	63.90 PB	Nicoleta Grasu  Romania (ROU)	63.40
	Dietzsch's opening effort of 66.61 m proved enough to secure the gold medal for the third time in her career. At 39, she became the second-oldest athletics world champion in history.[23] Darya Pishchalnikova initially finished second, but her silver medal was revoked in 2008 for manipulating drug samples.
Javelin throw details	Barbora Špotáková  Czech Republic (CZE)	67.07 NR	Christina Obergföll  Germany (GER)	66.46	Steffi Nerius  Germany (GER)	64.42
	The final was a battle between two pairs of German and Czech throwers which ended with a loss for this year unbeaten Obergföll. Špotáková improved the Czech national record (previously 66.21 held by herself since 2006) twice. She took an early lead for 66.40 m in her first attempt and secured the gold medal with her third throw (67.07) before Obergföll who reached 66.46 in the sixth attempt. Both Špotáková and Obergföl had a solid row of attempts over 60 m. Nerius (64.42) managed to get the bronze when she overcame Nikola Brejchová (63.73) in the fourth round.
Hammer throw details	Betty Heidler  Germany (GER)	74.76	Yipsi Moreno  Cuba (CUB)	74.74	Zhang Wenxiu  China (CHN)	74.39
	In a tight contest, Moreno's final round throw fell just 2 cm short of Heidler's 74.76, set in round two. Ivana Brkljačić failed to follow up on her qualification-leading throw of 74.69 and had to settle with 11th place.
Heptathlon details	Carolina Klüft  Sweden (SWE)	7032 WL / AR	Lyudmila Blonska  Ukraine (UKR)	6832 NR	Kelly Sotherton  Great Britain & N.I. (Great Britain and N.I.)	6510 SB
	Klüft set a European Record and became the second highest scorer ever in taking her third consecutive World Championship title and 19th consecutive heptathlon win. Sotherton had to fight with Jessica Ennis for a medal in the 800 m, after a poor javelin. Ennis won the 800 metres by only 0.19 seconds which was not enough, giving her the fourth place after Sotherton.
WR world record | AR area record | CR championship record | GR games record | NR national record | OR Olympic record | PB personal best | SB season best | WL world leading (in a given season)

Medal table

The victory ceremony for the men's javelin

  *   Host nation (Japan (JPN))

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	14	5	7	26
2	Kenya (KEN)	5	3	5	13
3	Russia (RUS)	4	7	3	14
4	Ethiopia (ETH)	3	1	0	4
5	Germany (GER)	2	3	2	7
6	Czech Republic (CZE)	2	1	0	3
7	Australia (AUS)	2	0	0	2
8	Jamaica (JAM)	1	6	3	10
9	Bahamas (BAH)	1	2	0	3
	Cuba (CUB)	1	2	0	3
11	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	1	1	4	6
12	China (CHN)	1	1	2	4
13	Bahrain (BHR)	1	1	0	2
14	Belarus (BLR)	1	0	0	1
	Croatia (CRO)	1	0	0	1
	Ecuador (ECU)	1	0	0	1
	Estonia (EST)	1	0	0	1
	Finland (FIN)	1	0	0	1
	New Zealand (NZL)	1	0	0	1
	Panama (PAN)	1	0	0	1
	Portugal (POR)	1	0	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
23	Italy (ITA)	0	2	1	3
24	Canada (CAN)	0	2	0	2
	France (FRA)	0	2	0	2
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	2	0	2
27	Spain (ESP)	0	1	2	3
28	Slovenia (SLO)	0	1	1	2
29	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	0	1
	Dominican Republic (DOM)	0	1	0	1
	Morocco (MAR)	0	1	0	1
	Norway (NOR)	0	1	0	1
	Qatar (QAT)	0	1	0	1
34	Poland (POL)	0	0	3	3
35	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	2	2
36	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	Cyprus (CYP)	0	0	1	1
	Japan (JPN)*	0	0	1	1
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROM)	0	0	1	1
	Slovakia (SVK)	0	0	1	1
	Sri Lanka (SRI)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
	Tunisia (TUN)	0	0	1	1
	Uganda (UGA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (46 entries)		47	48	46	141

Source: [1]

Broadcasting

The broadcasters of the 2007 IAAF World Championships were as follows:

Japan

• Broadcaster – TBS (Host broadcaster) and MBS (Cooperator)
• Caster – Yūji Oda and Miho Nakai
• Fieldcaster – Beni Arashiro
• Official song – All my treasures (Yūji Oda)

Worldwide

This list is non-exhaustive.

• Arab World – Al Jazeera Sports
• Australia – SBS TV
• Belgium – Sporza
• Bosnia and Herzegovina – BHTV1
• Brazil – SporTV
• Bulgaria – BNT
• Canada – CBC
• Caribbean – CMC
• China – CCTV
• Croatia – HRT2
• Czech Republic – ČT2
• Denmark – DR2
• Estonia – ETV
• Europe – Eurosport
• Finland – YLE
• France – France Televisions
• Germany – ARD and ZDF
• Greece – ET1
• Israel – Channel 1
• Italy – RAI
• Latvia – LTV7
• Lithuania – LTV
• New Zealand – Sky Television
• Norway – NRK
• Philippines – NBN
• Poland – TVP
• Portugal – RTP2
• Russia – Sport-RTR
• Serbia – RTS2
• Slovakia – Dvojka
• South Korea – KBS
• Spain – TVE2
• Sweden – SVT1, 2, HD
• Switzerland – SRG-SSR
• Turkey – TRT
• United Kingdom – BBC
• United States – NBC, Versus and WCSN
• Venezuela – Meridiano TV

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External links

• Results from IAAF.org
• 11th IAAF World Championships in Athletics Osaka Official Site