2007 World Championships in Athletics
Track
2003 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

2007 World Championships in Athletics

Section Title: Track
Table Section Text: 2003 | 2005 | 2007 | 2009 | 2011 Note: * Indicates athletes who ran in preliminary rounds.

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

Powell got the best start and led the race halfway through, but Gay caught up and ran past Powell with some 30 meters left, being able to hold up his top speed longer.

200 metres details	Tyson Gay United States (USA)	19.76 CR	Usain Bolt Jamaica (JAM)	19.91	Wallace Spearmon United States (USA)	20.05

Gay became only the third male athlete to complete the sprint double at a World Championship. Spearmon finished one hundredth of a second ahead of Rodney Martin to win bronze.

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

The United States completed a clean sweep of the medals, with Wariner successfully defending his title. Merritt and Taylor claimed their first individual World Championship medals.

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

After a slow 55 second first lap, Reed of Canada held the lead, followed closely by Abraham Chepkirwok. The final 100 meters produced a frenetic sprint to the finish in which Kirwa Yego nipped Reed at the line.

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

Kenyan-born Lagat outkicked the field in a close finish (eight athletes were within a second of first place), holding off Ramzi to win the first championship 1500 m gold for the United States since the 1908 Olympics.

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

A slow, tactical race saw the athletes remain bunched until Mo Farah tried to pull away at the beginning of the final lap.

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

Zersenay Tadese set a fast pace for most of the race (because he knew he could not outsprint Bekele, according to SBS commentators), gradually reducing the pack to 4.

Marathon details	Luke Kibet Kenya (KEN)	2:15:59	Mubarak Hassan Shami Qatar (QAT)	2:17:18	Viktor Röthlin Switzerland (SUI)	2:17:25

Kenyan William Kiplagat, who had held a medal position for much of the race, faded badly to finish 8th, in a race where 57 out of 94 starters finished.

110 m hurdles details	Liu Xiang China (CHN)	12.95	Terrence Trammell United States (USA)	12.99	David Payne United States (USA)	13.02 PB

Olympic champion Liu came from behind to claim his first World Championship gold. Trammell, leader for much of the race, took silver, while Payne won the bronze despite only arriving in Osaka as an alternate the day before the event began.

400 m 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

Despite a hesitation before clearing the penultimate hurdle, Clement set a world leading time to claim gold.

3000 m s'chase details	Brimin Kipruto Kenya (KEN)	8:13.82	Ezekiel Kemboi Kenya (KEN)	8:16.94	Richard Mateelong Kenya (KEN)	8:17.59

The Kenyans continued their dominance of the steeplechase with a medal sweep.

20 km walk details	Jefferson Pérez Ecuador (ECU)	1:22:20	Paquillo Fernández Spain (ESP)	1:22:40	Hatem Ghoula Tunisia (TUN)	1:22:40

After having led for most of the way, Italy's Ivano Brugnetti was disqualified after 12 km. Fernández was disqualified after having lifted inside the stadium, to overtake Ghoula metres before the line and fourth-place Eder Sánchez was awarded the bronze.

50 km 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

China's Yu Chaohong took an early lead in hot conditions, but was overtaken before the halfway mark by the leading group.

4×100 m 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

The United States led throughout to win, giving Gay his third gold medal of the Championships. Powell received the final baton in fifth place but powered ahead of second-placed Lewis-Francis on the home straight to win silver for the Jamaicans in a national record time.

4×400 m 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

With the three individual 400 m medallists on their team, the U.S. were strong favourites going into the race and duly led from start to finish.

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)

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Chinese athlete Liu Xiang took the gold medal in the 110m hurdles event with a time of 12.95.

final_sentence: Chinese athlete Liu Xiang took the gold medal in the 110m hurdles event with a time of 12.95.