2007 World Championships in Athletics – Men's shot put

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.

Victory ceremony (including the later disqualified Mikhnevich)

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]

Medallists

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

Abbreviations

• All results shown are in metres

Q	automatic qualification
q	qualification by rank
DNS	did not start
NM	no mark
WR	world record
AR	area record
NR	national record
PB	personal best
SB	season best

Records

World Record	Randy Barnes (USA)	23.12 m	May 20, 1990	Westwood, United States
Championship record	Werner Günthör (SUI)	22.23 m	August 29, 1987	Rome, Italy

Results

Qualification

Group A

Place	Athlete	Nation	1	2	3	Time	Notes
1	Adam Nelson	United States (USA)	X	20.81		20.81	Q
2	Joachim Olsen	Denmark (DEN)	20.62			20.62	Q
3	Yury Bialou	Belarus (BLR)	X	20.26		20.26	Q
4	Tomasz Majewski	Poland (POL)	X	20.25		20.25	Q
5	Dorian Scott	Jamaica (JAM)	19.90	20.01	19.87	20.01	q
6	Anton Lyuboslavskiy	Russia (RUS)	X	19.74	19.91	19.91
7	Yves Niaré	France (FRA)	19.24	19.62	19.53	19.62
8	Milan Haborák	Slovakia (SVK)	19.50	19.55	X	19.55
9	Mika Vasara	Finland (FIN)	19.40	18.91	19.55	19.55
10	Pavel Lyzhyn	Belarus (BLR)	X	X	19.45	19.45
11	Navpreet Singh	India (IND)	19.00	19.34	19.35	19.35
12	Sultan Abdulmajeed Al-Habashi	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	X	X	19.20	19.20
13	Germán Lauro	Argentina (ARG)	19.19	X	18.67	19.19
14	Marco Antonio Verni	Chile (CHI)	X	X	18.68	18.68
15	Noah Bryant	United States (USA)	X	18.58	X	18.58
16	Antonin Žalský	Czech Republic (CZE)	18.41	18.50	X	18.50
17	Ivan Emilianov	Moldova (MDA)	18.15	17.70	18.47	18.47
—	Peter Sack	Germany (GER)	X	X	X	NM
—	Hamza Alic	Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH)	X	X	X	NM
—	Dragan Peric	Serbia (SRB)	DNS

Group B

Place	Athlete	Nation	1	2	3	Time	Notes
1	Rutger Smith	Netherlands (NED)	21.04			21.04	Q
2	Reese Hoffa	United States (USA)	20.89			20.89	Q
3	Ralf Bartels	Germany (GER)	19.91	20.33		20.33	Q
4	Dylan Armstrong	Canada (CAN)	18.62	20.07	19.65	20.07	q
5	Miran Vodovnik	Slovenia (SLO)	19.51	19.97	19.11	19.97	q
6	Pavel Sofin	Russia (RUS)	19.43	19.92	19.68	19.92	q
7	Scott Martin	Australia (AUS)	19.71	19.81	X	19.81
8	Mikuláš Konopka	Slovakia (SVK)	18.78	X	19.63	19.63
9	Petr Stehlík	Czech Republic (CZE)	19.25	X	19.51	19.51
10	Robert Häggblom	Finland (FIN)	X	19.29	X	19.29
11	Māris Urtāns	Latvia (LAT)	X	X	19.17	19.17
12	Khalid Habash Al-Suwaidi	Qatar (QAT)	19.09	18.80	18.75	19.09
13	Nedzad Mulabegovic	Croatia (CRO)	18.69	X	X	18.69
14	Milan Jotanović	Serbia (SRB)	18.57	X	X	18.57
15	Chang Ming Huang	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	18.53	18.08	18.48	18.53
16	Daniel Taylor	United States (USA)	X	X	18.45	18.45
17	Satoshi Hatase	Japan (JPN)	17.30	17.71	17.42	17.71
18	Lajos Kürthy	Hungary (HUN)	17.56	17.43	X	17.56
—	Manuel Martínez Gutiérrez	Spain (ESP)	X	X	X	NM
—	Andrei Mikhnevich	Belarus (BLR)	20.23			20.23	Q, DQ

Final

Place	Athlete	Nation	1	2	3	4	5	6	Mark	Notes
	Reese Hoffa	United States (USA)	21.81	21.64	22.04	X	21.92	21.58	22.04
	Adam Nelson	United States (USA)	21.47	21.61	X	X	X	X	21.61	SB
	Rutger Smith	Netherlands (NED)	20.90	21.13	20.90	X	X	X	21.13
4	Tomasz Majewski	Poland (POL)	20.35	X	20.37	20.41	20.07	20.87	20.87	PB
5	Miran Vodovnik	Slovenia (SLO)	19.85	20.42	X	20.67	20.25	X	20.67	SB
6	Ralf Bartels	Germany (GER)	20.02	20.34	X	20.40	20.45	20.09	20.45	Q
7	Yury Bialou	Belarus (BLR)	20.34	X	X	X	X	20.34	20.34
8	Dylan Armstrong	Canada (CAN)	20.22	20.23	19.94				20.23
9	Pavel Sofin	Russia (RUS)	19.62	X	X				19.62
—	Dorian Scott	Jamaica (JAM)	X	X	X				NM
—	Joachim Olsen	Denmark (DEN)	X	X	X				NM
—	Andrei Mikhnevich	Belarus (BLR)	19.97	21.27	20.88	20.75	20.61	X	21.27	DQ