2007 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 20 kilometres walk

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
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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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[]

Gold	Jefferson Pérez   (ECU)
Silver	Paquillo Fernández   (ESP)
Bronze	Hatem Ghoula   (TUN)

Abbreviations[]

• All times shown are in hours:minutes:seconds

Records[]

Standing records prior to the 2007 World Athletics Championships
World Record	Jefferson Pérez (ECU)	1:17.21	August 23, 2003	Paris, France
Event Record

Final ranking[]

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Note
	Jefferson Pérez	(ECU)	1:22:20
	Paquillo Fernández	(ESP)	1:22:40
	Hatem Ghoula	(TUN)	1:22:40
4	Eder Sánchez	(MEX)	1:23:36
5	Giorgio Rubino	Italy (ITA)	1:23:39
6	Robert Heffernan	Ireland (IRL)	1:23:42
7	Luke Adams	(AUS)	1:23:52
8	Erik Tysse	(NOR)	1:24:10
9	Ilya Markov	(RUS)	1:24:35
10	Alex Schwazer	Italy (ITA)	1:24:39
11	Koichiro Morioka	(JPN)	1:24:46
12	Rolando Saquipay	(ECU)	1:25:03
13	Li Gaobo	China (CHN)	1:25:30
14	Matej Tóth	(SVK)	1:25:57
15	Park Chil-Sung	South Korea (KOR)	1:26:08
16	Juan Manuel Molina	(ESP)	1:26:26
17	Benjamin Kuciński	Poland (POL)	1:26:43
18	Andriy Kovenko	(UKR)	1:26:44
19		(JPN)	1:26:45
20	Kim Hyun-sup	South Korea (KOR)	1:26:51
21	Takayuki Tanii	(JPN)	1:26:53
22	Luis Fernando López	(COL)	1:27:22
23	Benjamin Sánchez	(MEX)	1:27:29
24	Hassanine Sebei	(TUN)	1:27:35
25	João Vieira	(POR)	1:27:44
26	Rafał Augustyn	Poland (POL)	1:27:54
27	Ivan Trotski	(BLR)	1:27:56
28	Kevin Eastler	United States (USA)	1:28:29
29	Han Yucheng	China (CHN)	1:31:58
30	Dong Jimin	China (CHN)	1:32:03
31	Timothy Seaman	United States (USA)	1:33:58
32	Predrag Filipović	(SRB)	1:35:51
—	Jared Tallent	(AUS)	DQ
—	Gabriel Ortiz	(MEX)	DQ
—	Andrés Chocho	(ECU)	DQ
—	Ivano Brugnetti	Italy (ITA)	DQ
—	Daniel García	(MEX)	DQ
—	Igor Erokhin	(RUS)	DQ
—	Gustavo Restrepo	(COL)	DQ
—	Valeriy Borchin	(RUS)	DNF
—	Sérgio Vieira	(POR)	DNF
—	André Höhne	(GER)	DNF

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