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

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

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	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 (ITA)	1:23:39
6	Robert Heffernan (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 (ITA)	1:24:39	SB
11	Koichiro Morioka (JPN)	1:24:46
12	Rolando Saquipay (ECU)	1:25:03
13	Li Gaobo (CHN)	1:25:30
14	Matej Tóth (SVK)	1:25:57
15	Park Chil-Sung (KOR)	1:26:08
16	Juan Manuel Molina (ESP)	1:26:26
17	Benjamin Kuciński (POL)	1:26:43
18	Andriy Kovenko (UKR)	1:26:44
19	Akihiro Sugimoto (JPN)	1:26:45
20	Kim Hyun-sup (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 (POL)	1:27:54
27	Ivan Trotski (BLR)	1:27:56
28	Kevin Eastler (USA)	1:28:29
29	Han Yucheng (CHN)	1:31:58
30	Dong Jimin (CHN)	1:32:03
31	Timothy Seaman (USA)	1:33:58
32	Predrag Filipović (SRB)	1:35:51
DISQUALIFIED (DSQ)
	Jared Tallent (AUS)	DSQ
	Gabriel Ortiz (MEX)	DSQ
	Andrés Chocho (ECU)	DSQ
	Ivano Brugnetti (ITA)	DSQ
	Daniel García (MEX)	DSQ
	Igor Erokhin (RUS)	DSQ
	Gustavo Restrepo (COL)	DSQ
DID NOT FINISH (DNF)
	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
• 2007 Race Walking Year Ranking

References

• Full results - IAAF.org
• Event report - IAAF.org
• Die Leichtathletik-Statistik-Seite