# 2007 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 50 kilometres walk

The men's 50 kilometres walk event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on 1 September 2007 in the streets of Osaka, Japan.

## Medallists

| Gold | Nathan Deakes Australia (AUS) |
| Silver | Yohan Diniz France (FRA) |
| Bronze | Alex Schwazer Italy (ITA) |

## Abbreviations

* All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds
| DNS | did not start |
| NM | no mark |
| WR | world record |
| WL | world leading |
| AR | area record |
| NR | national record |
| PB | personal best |
| SB | season best |

## Records

| World record | 3:35:47 | Nathan Deakes | Australia | Geelong, Australia | 2 December 2006 |
| Championship record | 3:36:03 | Robert Korzeniowski | Poland | Paris, France | 2003 |

## Final ranking

| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Note |
| | Nathan Deakes | Australia (AUS) | 3:43:53 | SB |
| | Yohann Diniz | France (FRA) | 3:44:22 | SB |
| | Alex Schwazer | Italy (ITA) | 3:44:38 | |
| 4 | Denis Nizhegorodov | Russia (RUS) | 3:46:57 | |
| 5 | Erik Tysse | Norway (NOR) | 3:51:52 | PB |
| 6 | Mikel Odriozola | Spain (ESP) | 3:55:19 | SB |
| 7 | Sun Chao | China (CHN) | 3:55:43 | |
| 8 | Trond Nymark | Norway (NOR) | 3:57:22 | |
| 9 | Horacio Nava | Mexico (MEX) | 3:58:17 | |
| 10 | Jarkko Kinnunen | Finland (FIN) | 3:58:22 | SB |
| 11 | Antti Kempas | Finland (FIN) | 3:59:34 | |
| 12 | Donatas Škarnulis | Lithuania (LTU) | 3:59:48 | |
| 13 | Eddy Riva | France (FRA) | 4:00:44 | |
| 14 | David Boulanger | France (FRA) | 4:01:30 | |
| 15 | António Pereira | Portugal (POR) | 4:02:09 | |
| 16 | Ken Akashi | Japan (JPN) | 4:02:31 | |
| 17 | Yusuke Yachi | Japan (JPN) | 4:05:21 | |
| 18 | Diego Cafagna | Italy (ITA) | 4:06:03 | |
| 19 | Tim Berrett | Canada (CAN) | 4:06:47 | |
| 20 | Jesús Sánchez | Mexico (MEX) | 4:07:14 | |
| 21 | Grzegorz Sudoł | Poland (POL) | 4:07:48 | SB |
| 22 | Miloš Bátovský | Slovakia (SVK) | 4:08:22 | |
| 23 | Nenad Filipović | Serbia (SRB) | 4:12:11 | |
| 24 | Chris Erickson | Australia (AUS) | 4:13:00 | |
| 25 | Konstadinos Stefanopoulos | Greece (GRE) | 4:14:22 | |
| 26 | Augusto Cardoso | Portugal (POR) | 4:14:38 | |
| 27 | Jorge Costa | Portugal (POR) | 4:16:05 | |
| 28 | Igors Kazakēvičs | Latvia (LAT) | 4:19:43 | |
| 29 | Andrei Stepanchuk | Belarus (BLR) | 4:23:30 | |
| 30 | Rafał Fedaczyński | Poland (POL) | 4:24:51 | |
| 31 | Kevin Eastler | United States (USA) | 4:31:52 | |
| DISQUALIFIED (DQ) ||||
| — | Colin Griffin | Ireland (IRL) | DQ | |
| — | Andreas Gustafsson | Sweden (SWE) | DQ | |
| — | Fredrik Svensson | Sweden (SWE) | DQ | |
| — | Omar Zepeda | Mexico (MEX) | DQ | |
| — | Zoltán Czukor | Hungary (HUN) | DQ | |
| — | Jesús Angel García | Spain (ESP) | DQ | |
| — | Duane Cousins | Australia (AUS) | DQ | |
| — | Yu Chaohong | China (CHN) | DQ | |
| — | Zhao Chengliang | China (CHN) | DQ | |
| DID NOT FINISH (DNF) ||||
| — | Ingus Janevics | Latvia (LAT) | DNF | |
| — | Vitaliy Talankou | Belarus (BLR) | DNF | |
| — | Anton Kucmin | Slovakia (SVK) | DNF | |
| — | Fredy Hernández | Colombia (COL) | DNF | |
| — | Santiago Pérez | Spain (ESP) | DNF | |
| — | Aleksey Voyevodin | Russia (RUS) | DNF | |
| — | Peter Korčok | Slovakia (SVK) | DNF | |
| — | Yuki Yamazaki | Japan (JPN) | DNF | |
| — | Kamil Kalka | Poland (POL) | DNF | |
| — | Marco De Luca | Italy (ITA) | DNF | |
| — | Vladimir Kanaykin | Russia (RUS) | DNF | |
| — | Sergey Kirdyapkin | Russia (RUS) | DNF | |
| — | Tony Sargisson | New Zealand (NZL) | DNF | |
| — | Jamie Costin | Ireland (IRL) | DNF | |