The men's 20 kilometres walk event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 26, 2007 in the streets of Osaka, Japan.
The event saw some controversy as Paquillo Fernández, who finished second after overtaking Hatem Ghoula in the final straight, was disqualified after the race for lifting. However, following an appeal by the Spanish team the same day, video evidence was examined and Fernández was found to have walked in compliance with the rules. He was thus re-awarded the silver medal.
Jefferson Pérez became the first race walker to win three World Championship gold medals. Also, Fernández won his third consecutive silver medal. Hatem Ghoula became the first African race walker to win a World Championship medal.
Medallists GoldSilverBronze
Abbreviations All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds DNS did not startNM no markWR world recordAR area recordNR national recordPB personal bestSB season best
Records Standing records prior to the 2007 World Athletics ChampionshipsWorld Record 1:17.21 August 23, 2003 Paris, France Event Record
Final ranking RankAthleteNationTimeNote Jefferson Pérez 1:22:20 Paquillo Fernández 1:22:40 Hatem Ghoula 1:22:40 4 Eder Sánchez 1:23:36 5 Giorgio Rubino 1:23:39 6 Robert Heffernan 1:23:42 7 Luke Adams 1:23:52 8 Erik Tysse 1:24:10 9 Ilya Markov 1:24:35 10 Alex Schwazer 1:24:39 SB11 Koichiro Morioka 1:24:46 12 Rolando Saquipay 1:25:03 13 Li Gaobo 1:25:30 14 Matej Tóth 1:25:57 15 Park Chil-Sung 1:26:08 16 Juan Manuel Molina 1:26:26 17 Benjamin Kuciński 1:26:43 18 Andriy Kovenko 1:26:44 19 Akihiro Sugimoto 1:26:45 20 Kim Hyun-sup 1:26:51 21 Takayuki Tanii 1:26:53 22 Luis Fernando López 1:27:22 23 Benjamin Sánchez 1:27:29 24 Hassanine Sebei 1:27:35 25 João Vieira 1:27:44 26 Rafał Augustyn 1:27:54 27 Ivan Trotski 1:27:56 28 Kevin Eastler 1:28:29 29 Han Yucheng 1:31:58 30 Dong Jimin 1:32:03 31 Timothy Seaman 1:33:58 32 Predrag Filipović 1:35:51 — Jared Tallent — Gabriel Ortiz — Andrés Chocho — Ivano Brugnetti — Daniel García — Igor Erokhin — Gustavo Restrepo — Valeriy Borchin — Sérgio Vieira — André Höhne
See also Athletics at the 2007 Pan American Games – Men's 20 kilometres walk
References Full results - IAAF.org Event report - IAAF.org Die Leichtathletik-Statistik-Seite