2007 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put

Events at the 2007 World Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men		women
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The Men's Shot Put event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 25, 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan.

Medallists

Victory ceremony

Gold	Reese Hoffa (USA)
Silver	Adam Nelson (USA)
Bronze	Rutger Smith (NED)

Note: In 2013 it was revealed that Andrei Mikhnevich, the original bronze medalist, tested positive for a prohibited substance at the 2005 World Championships. Since this was his second offense, he was given a lifetime ban and all his results from August 2005 on were annulled. ^[1]

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Records

Standing records prior to the 2007 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Randy Barnes (USA)	23.12 m	May 20, 1990	Westwood, United States
Event Record	Werner Günthör (SUI)	22.23 m	August 29, 1987	Rome, Italy

Results

Qualification

Group A

Place	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Adam Nelson (USA)	20.81	Q
2	Joachim Olsen (DEN)	20.62	Q
3	Yury Bialou (BLR)	20.26	Q
4	Tomasz Majewski (POL)	20.25	Q
5	Dorian Scott (JAM)	20.01	q
6	Anton Lyuboslavskiy (RUS)	19.91
7	Yves Niaré (FRA)	19.62
8	Milan Haborák (SVK)	19.55
9	Mika Vasara (FIN)	19.55
10	Pavel Lyzhyn (BLR)	19.45
11	Navpreet Singh (IND)	19.35
12	Sultan Abdulmajeed Al-Habashi (KSA)	19.20
13	Germán Lauro (ARG)	19.19
14	Marco Antonio Verni (CHI)	18.68
15	Noah Bryant (USA)	18.58
16	Antonin Žalský (CZE)	18.50
17	Ivan Emilianov (MDA)	18.47
	Peter Sack (GER)	NM
	Hamza Alic (BIH)	NM
	Dragan Peric (SRB)	DNS

Group B

Place	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Rutger Smith (NED)	21.04	Q
2	Reese Hoffa (USA)	20.89	Q
3	Ralf Bartels (GER)	20.33	Q
4	Dylan Armstrong (CAN)	20.07	q
5	Miran Vodovnik (SLO)	19.97	q
6	Pavel Sofin (RUS)	19.92	q
7	Scott Martin (AUS)	19.81
8	Mikuláš Konopka (SVK)	19.63
9	Petr Stehlík (CZE)	19.51
10	Robert Häggblom (FIN)	19.29
11	Maris Urtans (LAT)	19.17
12	Khalid Habash Al-Suwaidi (QAT)	19.09
13	Nedzad Mulabegovic (CRO)	18.69
14	Milan Jotanović (SRB)	18.57
15	Chang Ming Huang (TPE)	18.53
16	Daniel Taylor (USA)	18.45
17	Satoshi Hatase (JPN)	17.71
18	Lajos Kürthy (HUN)	17.56
	Manuel Martínez (ESP)	NM
	Andrei Mikhnevich (BLR)	20.23	Q, DQ

Final

Place	Athlete	Mark	Notes
1	Reese Hoffa (USA)	22.04
2	Adam Nelson (USA)	21.61	SB
3	Rutger Smith (NED)	21.13
4	Tomasz Majewski (POL)	20.87	PB
5	Miran Vodovnik (SLO)	20.67	SB
6	Ralf Bartels (GER)	20.45	Q
7	Yury Bialou (BLR)	20.34
8	Dylan Armstrong (CAN)	20.23
9	Pavel Sofin (RUS)	19.62
	Dorian Scott (JAM)	NM
	Joachim Olsen (DEN)	NM
	Andrei Mikhnevich (BLR)	21.27	DQ

See also

• 2007 Shot Put Year Ranking

References

• Official results, qualification - IAAF.org
• Official results, final - IAAF.org
• Event report - IAAF.org