2007 World Championships in Athletics

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Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Men's 100 metres The 100 metres at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Nagai Stadium on August 25 and August 26....	Tyson Gay Tyson Gay Tyson Gay is an United States track and field athletics Sprint . His primary events are the 100 metres and 200 metres. His personal bests establish him as third fastest athlete in the history of the 100 and 200 meter races, with times of 9.77 and 19.62 seconds respectively....	9.85	Derrick Atkins Derrick Atkins Derrick Atkins is a Bahamians sprinter. Atkins specializes in the 100 metres event and also holds the national record, with a time of 9.91 seconds....	9.91 NR	Asafa Powell Asafa Powell Asafa Powell Order of Distinction is a Jamaican Sprint who specialises in the 100 metres. He held the 100 m World records in athletics between June 2005 and May 2008, with times of 9.77 and 9.74 seconds respectively....	9.96
	Powell got the best start and led the race halfway through, but Gay caught up and ran past Powell with some 30 meters left, being able to hold up his top speed longer. Powell seemed to get tense in the end and admitted to giving up when he realised he was out of contention, as even Atkins ran past him in the last moments of the race.
200 m 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Men's 200 metres These are the official results of the 200 metres event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics in Osaka, Japan. There were a total number of 59 participating athletes, with eight qualifying heats and the final held on Thursday August 30....	Tyson Gay Tyson Gay Tyson Gay is an United States track and field athletics Sprint . His primary events are the 100 metres and 200 metres. His personal bests establish him as third fastest athlete in the history of the 100 and 200 meter races, with times of 9.77 and 19.62 seconds respectively....	19.76 CR	Usain Bolt Usain Bolt Usain Bolt Order of Distinction is a Jamaican Sprint . Bolt holds the Olympic Games and World records in athletics for the 100 metres at 9.69 seconds, the 200 metres at 19.30 seconds and, along with his teammates, the 4 x 100 metres relay at 37.10 seconds, all set at the 2008 Summer Olympics....	19.91	Wallace Spearmon Wallace Spearmon Wallace Spearmon, Jr., is a Sprint athlete who specialises in the 200 metres. Spearmon is a graduate of Fayetteville High School and currently attends the University of Arkansas, where he competed collegiately for two seasons before turning pro....	20.05
	Gay became only the third male athlete to complete the sprint double at a World Championship. Spearmon finished one hundredth of a second ahead of Rodney Martin Rodney Martin (athlete) Rodney Martin is an United States sprinter. Martin is a native of Las Vegas, Nevada. Born with the gift of running , Rodney was a state record holder in track and field....  to win bronze.
400 m	Jeremy Wariner Jeremy Wariner Jeremy Mathew Wariner is an United States Athletics specializing in the 400 meters. He has won four Olympic games medals and four IAAF World Championships in Athletics medals....	43.45 WL	LaShawn Merritt LaShawn Merritt LaShawn Merritt is an American sprinter who specializes in the 400 meters. LaShawn is a native of where he graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School ....	43.96 PB	Angelo Taylor Angelo Taylor Angelo F. Taylor is an American Athletics , winner of 400 m hurdles at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics.Born in Albany, Georgia, Angelo Taylor studied at the Georgia Institute of Technology and won the National Collegiate Athletic Association title in 1998 and placed second in 1997....	44.32
	The United States completed a clean sweep of the medals, with Wariner successfully defending his title. Merritt and Taylor claimed their first individual World Championship medals. Merritt ran under 44 seconds for the first time.
800 m	Alfred Kirwa Yego	1:47.09	Gary Reed Gary Reed (athlete) Gary Reed is a Canada middle distance track event. He currently holds the Canadian record in the 800 meter run with a time of 1:43.68. On September 2, 2007, he won the silver medal in the 2007 World Championships in Athletics in Osaka, Japan, with a time of 1.47.10....	1:47.10	Yuriy Borzakovskiy Yuriy Borzakovskiy Yuriy Mikhailovich Borzakovskiy is a Russian Federation Middle distance track event athlete specializing in the 800 metres....	1:47.39
	After a slow 55 second first lap, Reed of Canada held the lead, followed closely by Abraham Chepkirwok Abraham Chepkirwok Abraham Chepkirwok is an Ugandan middle distance runner who specializes in the 800 metres. He is the Ugandan record holder in this distance, with 1:43.72 minutes, achieved in July 2008 in Madrid.... . The final 100 meters produced a frenetic sprint to the finish in which Kirwa Yego nipped Reed at the line.
1500 m	Bernard Lagat Bernard Lagat Bernard Kipchirchir Lagat is a Middle distance track event and Long-distance track event champion Athletics who now represents the United States of America....	3:34.77	Rashid Ramzi Rashid Ramzi Rashid Ramzi is a Athletics athlete competing internationally for Bahrain in the 800, 1500 and 5000 meters; he is also the only Olympic medalist for Bahrain....	3:35.00 SB	Shadrack Korir Shadrack Korir Shadrack Korir is a Kenyan runner who specializes in the 1500 metres and 3000 metres.He won the bronze medal in the 1500m at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics in Osaka....	3:35.04
	Kenyan-born Lagat outkicked the field in a close finish (eight athletes were within a second of first place), holding off Ramzi to win the first championship 1500 m gold for the United States since the 1908 Olympics.
5000 m	Bernard Lagat Bernard Lagat Bernard Kipchirchir Lagat is a Middle distance track event and Long-distance track event champion Athletics who now represents the United States of America....	13:45.87	Eliud Kipchoge Eliud Kipchoge Eliud Kipchoge is a Kenyan long distance runner.He graduated from Kaptel Secondary School in 1999 but did not run seriously then. In 2002 he won Kenyan trials for the 2002 IAAF World Cross Country Championships junior race....	13:46.00	Moses Kipsiro Moses Kipsiro Moses Ndiema Kipsiro is a Ugandan middle distance runner who specializes in the 5000 metres. He was born in Chesimat....	13:46.75
	A slow, tactical race saw the athletes remain bunched until Mohammed Farah Mohammed Farah Mohammed "Mo" Farah is a United Kingdom international Athletics athlete. He currently holds the British indoor record in the 3000 metres.Based in London and running for Newham and Essex Beagles athletics club, Farah won his first major title at the European Junior Championships in 2001....  tried to pull away at the beginning of the final lap. The Briton dropped back to fifth around the last bend, however, and Lagat surged past Kipchoge on the home straight to become the first ever winner of a world 1500/5000 m double.
10,000 m 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Men's 10000 metres The men's 10,000 metres event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 27 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan....	Kenenisa Bekele Kenenisa Bekele Kenenisa Bekele is an Ethiopian athletics long distances who holds the world records in the 5000 metres and long distance track event. He is the reigning two-time Olympic champion over 10,000 metres and the most accomplished runner in IAAF World Cross Country Championships history, with six long course and five short course titles....	27:05.90 SB	Sileshi Sihine Sileshi Sihine Sileshi Sihine is an Ethiopian long-distance athlete.He achieved a silver medal in the 10,000 m at the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Olympics as well as at the 2005 World Championships and 2007 World Championships as well as a bronze in 2003....	27:09.03	Martin Mathathi Martin Mathathi Martin Irungu Mathathi is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specializes in cross-country running.His wife is called Maggie from Ngarua Sipili-Kenya...	27:12.17
	Zersenay Tadese set a fast pace for most of the race (because he knew he could not outsprint Bekele, according to SBS Special Broadcasting Service The Special Broadcasting Service is one of two government-funded Australian public broadcasting radio and List of Australian television channels, the other being the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ....  commentators), gradually reducing the pack to 4. Mathathi took the lead with two laps to go, and Tadese fell back to finish fourth. The two Ethiopians went past Mathathi at the bell, with Bekele sprinting away in the last 100m to win his third consecutive title.
Marathon 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Men's marathon The men's marathon event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 25 2007 in the streets of Osaka, Japan. The weather conditions were difficult, with 28 degrees C....	Luke Kibet Luke Kibet Luke Kibet is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon . He won won the marathon race at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics...	2:15:59	Mubarak Hassan Shami Mubarak Hassan Shami Mubarak Hassan Shami is a Kenya-born Qatar long-distance track event. He specializes in half marathon and marathon races.In October 2005 he won a silver medal at the 2005 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships....	2:17:18	Viktor Röthlin Viktor Röthlin Viktor R?thlin is a Switzerland long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon.He won the silver medal at the 2006 European Athletics Championships, and the bronze medal at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics....	2:17:25
	Kenya Kenya The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border.... n William Kiplagat William Kiplagat William Kiplagat is a long-distance Running from Kenya.He ran his personal best of 2:06:50 hours in the 1999 Amsterdam Marathon. Although he did not win with this individual record in 1999 – he was third – Kiplagat has two victories and six sub-2:10 performances.... , who had held a medal position for much of the race, faded badly to finish 8th, in a race where 57 out of 94 starters finished. Swiss Röthlin ran a well-paced race to take a surprise medal. Eritrea Eritrea Eritrea , officially the Country of Eritrea, is a country in Northeast Africa. It is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast.... n Yared Asmerom Yared Asmerom Yared Asmerom is an Eritrean long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon races. He was born in Asmara.In 2005 he finished ninth at the 2005 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships and 25th at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics - Men's Marathon.... , along with three Japanese athletes, was unlucky to finish without medals, despite well-timed surges. Japan won the World Cup race, with Korea and Kenya also picking up medals in the team event.
110 m H	Liu Xiang Liu Xiang Liu Xiang is a Han Chinese hurdling. Liu is an Olympic Games and 2007 World Championships in Athletics. His 2004 Olympic gold medal was China's first in a men's track and field event....	12.95	Terrence Trammell Terrence Trammell Terrence R. Trammell is a track and field Athletics who won the silver medal in the 110 meter hurdles at both the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics....	12.99	David Payne David Payne (athlete) David Payne is an United States 110 metres hurdles. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and his family moved to the suburb of Wyoming, Ohio. Payne competed in the 110 and 400 meter hurdles while attending the University of Cincinnati....	13.02 PB
	Olympic champion Liu came from behind to claim his first World Championship gold. Trammell, leader for much of the race, took silver, while Payne won the bronze despite only arriving in Osaka as an alternate the day before the event began.
400 m H	Kerron Clement Kerron Clement Kerron Clement is an United States sprinter who holds the indoor world record for the 400m sprint.Clement's family moved to the United States in 1998, where he became a successful high school athlete at La Porte, Texas winning both 110 and 400 metres hurdles at the USATF Youth Athletics Championships....	47.61 WL	Félix Sánchez Felix Sanchez F?lix S?nchez —nicknamed Super Felix, the Invincible and the Dictator— is a track and field sportsperson from New York City, New York ....	48.01 SB	Marek Plawgo Marek Plawgo Marek Plawgo is a Poland athlete. He mainly competes in the hurdling. He finished 6th at the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 400 metres Hurdles, equalling his personal best time of 48.16s which was the national record set in 2001....	48.12 NR
	Despite a hesitation before clearing the penultimate hurdle, Clement set a world leading time to claim gold.
3000 m SC 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Men's 3000 metres steeplechase The men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 26 2007 and August 28 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan....	Brimin Kipruto Brimin Kipruto Brimin Kipruto is a Kenyan middle distance track event runner. He was born in Korkitony, Keiyo District.He mainly competes in the steeplechase , where his personal best is 8:04.22 minutes....	8:13.82	Ezekiel Kemboi Ezekiel Kemboi Ezekiel Kemboi Cheboi is a Kenyan athletics , winner of 3000 m steeplechase at the 2004 Summer Olympics.Born in Matira, near Kapsowar, Marakwet District....	8:16.94	Richard Mateelong Richard Mateelong Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specializes in the 3000 metre steeplechase.He was born in Lenape, Kenya village, near Narok town in 1983....	8:17.59
	The Kenyans continued their dominance of the steeplechase with a medal sweep.
20 km Walk 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Men's 20 kilometres walk The men's race walking 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 Francisco Javier Fern?ndez, who finished second after overtaking Hatem Ghoula in the final straight, was disqualified after the race for lifting....	Jefferson Pérez Jefferson Pérez Jefferson Leonardo P?rez Quezada is an Ecuadorian race walker. He specializes in the 20km event, in which he has won the only two medals his country has ever achieved in the Olympic Games....	1:22:20	Francisco Javier Fernández Francisco Javier Fernández Francisco Javier Fern?ndez Pel?ez is a Spain race walking, he has specialised in 20 km race walk. He was born in Guadix....	1:22:40	Hatem Ghoula Hatem Ghoula Hatem Ghoula is a Tunisian race walking.He holds the African records in athletics in both 20,000 metres, 20 km and 50 km walk....	1:22:40
	After having led for most of the way, Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia.... 's Ivano Brugnetti Ivano Brugnetti Ivano Brugnetti is an Italy race walking.AchievementsReferences...  was disqualified after 12 km. Fernández was disqualified after having lifted inside the stadium, to overtake Ghoula metres before the line and fourth-place Eder Sánchez Eder Sánchez Eder S?nchez is a Mexico race walking.AchievementsReferences...  was awarded the bronze. However, the Spaniard was later reinstated. This was world record-holder Pérez's third straight title.
50 km Walk	Nathan Deakes Nathan Deakes Nathan Deakes is an Australian race walking. Deakes trains with the Australian Institute of Sport.By performances, Nathan Deakes is Australia's best and most successful ever race walker, winning several international medals and holding many Australian and World Records....	3:43:53 SB	Yohann Diniz Yohann Diniz Yohann Diniz is a France race walking.He won the gold medal in the 50 km race at the 2006 European Championships in Athletics in a personal best time of 3:41:39 hours....	3:44:22 SB	Alex Schwazer Alex Schwazer Alex Schwazer is an Italian race walking.Schwazer won the bronze medal in the 50 km race at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics - Men's 50 km Walk in a national record time of 3:41.54 hours....	3:44:38
	China's Yu Chaohong took an early lead in hot conditions, but was overtaken before the halfway mark by the leading group.
4 × 100 m 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Men's 4x100 metres relay The 4 x 100 m relay at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Nagai Stadium on 31 August and 1 September....	Darvis Patton Darvis Patton Darvis Patton is an United States of America Sprint Athletics .A very versatile athlete, Patton competed at both the long jump and triple jump in his High School and College days but now concentrates his time around the 200 metres and 100 metres events.... Wallace Spearmon Wallace Spearmon Wallace Spearmon, Jr., is a Sprint athlete who specialises in the 200 metres. Spearmon is a graduate of Fayetteville High School and currently attends the University of Arkansas, where he competed collegiately for two seasons before turning pro.... Tyson Gay Tyson Gay Tyson Gay is an United States track and field athletics Sprint . His primary events are the 100 metres and 200 metres. His personal bests establish him as third fastest athlete in the history of the 100 and 200 meter races, with times of 9.77 and 19.62 seconds respectively.... LeRoy Dixon Leroy Dixon Leroy Dixon is an United States sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.He won the gold medal in 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Men's 4x100 metres relay at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics, together with Darvis Patton, Wallace Spearmon and Tyson Gay....	37.78 WL	Marvin Anderson Marvin Anderson Marvin Anderson is a Jamaican sprint athlete.He finished sixth in the 200m final at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics in Osaka where he also won a silver medal in the 4 x 100m relay team for Jamaica.... Usain Bolt Usain Bolt Usain Bolt Order of Distinction is a Jamaican Sprint . Bolt holds the Olympic Games and World records in athletics for the 100 metres at 9.69 seconds, the 200 metres at 19.30 seconds and, along with his teammates, the 4 x 100 metres relay at 37.10 seconds, all set at the 2008 Summer Olympics.... Nesta Carter Nesta Carter Nesta Carter Order of Distinction is a Jamaican sprinter and member of the 2007 World Championships in Athletics silver medal 4 x 100 metres relay team.... Asafa Powell Asafa Powell Asafa Powell Order of Distinction is a Jamaican Sprint who specialises in the 100 metres. He held the 100 m World records in athletics between June 2005 and May 2008, with times of 9.77 and 9.74 seconds respectively....	37.89 NR	Christian Malcolm Christian Malcolm Christian Sean Malcolm is a United Kingdom Athletics , specialising in the 200m.Malcolm was born in Cardiff and resides in Newport, Wales. He won the title of World Junior Athlete of the Year in 1998 and in the 1998 World Junior Championships, he won the 200m in 20.44 seconds.... Craig Pickering Craig Pickering Craig Keith Pickering is a United Kingdom Sprint , currently based at the Marshall Milton Keynes Athletics Club; however, he also runs for the University of Bath and Newham and Essex Beagles.... Marlon Devonish Marlon Devonish Marlon Ronald Devonish is an England Sprint Athletics .He is a member of the Coventry Godiva Harriers athletics club and is coached by Tony Lester.... Mark Lewis-Francis Mark Lewis-Francis Mark Lewis-Francis is a United Kingdom sprinter of Jamaican descent. He is an Olympic gold medallist, having been part of the 4x100m relay team at the 2004 Summer Olympics....	37.90 SB
	The United States led throughout to win, giving Gay his third gold medal of the Championships. Powell received the final baton in fifth place but powered ahead of second-placed Lewis-Francis on the home straight to win silver for the Jamaicans in a national record time.
4 × 400 m	LaShawn Merritt LaShawn Merritt LaShawn Merritt is an American sprinter who specializes in the 400 meters. LaShawn is a native of where he graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School .... Angelo Taylor Angelo Taylor Angelo F. Taylor is an American Athletics , winner of 400 m hurdles at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics.Born in Albany, Georgia, Angelo Taylor studied at the Georgia Institute of Technology and won the National Collegiate Athletic Association title in 1998 and placed second in 1997.... Darold Williamson Darold Williamson Darold Williamson is an United States Athletics .He ran the anchor leg on the gold medal winning Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 4 x 400 metres relay team at the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.... Jeremy Wariner Jeremy Wariner Jeremy Mathew Wariner is an United States Athletics specializing in the 400 meters. He has won four Olympic games medals and four IAAF World Championships in Athletics medals....	2:55.56 WL	Avard Moncur Avard Moncur Avard Moncur is a Bahamas athlete competing in the 400 metres. He was born in Nassau, Bahamas.Moncur's most successful year came in 2001 when he won the gold medal in the 400m at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics, however he has not managed to replicate this success.... Micheal Mathieu Andrae Williams Andrae Williams Andrae Williams is a Bahamas athlete.... Chris Brown	2:59.18 SB	Marek Plawgo Marek Plawgo Marek Plawgo is a Poland athlete. He mainly competes in the hurdling. He finished 6th at the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's 400 metres Hurdles, equalling his personal best time of 48.16s which was the national record set in 2001.... Daniel Dabrowski Daniel Dabrowski Daniel Dabrowski is a Poland sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.... Marcin Marciniszyn Marcin Marciniszyn Marcin Marciniszyn is a Poland sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.... Kacper Kozlowski	3:00.05 SB
	With the three individual 400 m medallists on their team, the U.S. were strong favourites going into the race and duly led from start to finish. Jamaica Jamaica Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length and as much as in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. It is about south of Cuba, and west of the island of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated....  held second place after three legs, but anchor Sanjay Ayre Sanjay Ayre Sanjay Ayre is a Jamaican Sprint .Puma North America Signed Ayre to an undisclosed record 3 year contract in June 2003. Together with Brandon Simpson, Lansford Spence and Davian Clarke he won a bronze medal in 2005 World Championships in Athletics - Men's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics....  was passed by Brown on the back straight and Kozlowski on the home straight.

Field

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
High Jump 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Men's high jump The men's high jump event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 27 2007 and August 29 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan....	Donald Thomas Donald Thomas (athlete) Donald Thomas is a Bahamas high jumper.Thomas took up the sport in early 2006, having previously played basketball. He cleared 2.22 metres in his first meet, and just months later he finished fourth at the Athletics at the 2006 Commonwealth Games with a 2.23 m jump....	2.35 WL	Yaroslav Rybakov Yaroslav Rybakov Yaroslav Vladimirovich Rybakov is a Russian high jumper.He is the 2002 European Championships in Athletics high jumper, and at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics he shared the silver medal with Victor Moya of Cuba....	2.35 WL	Kyriakos Ioannou Kyriakos Ioannou Kyriakos Ioannou is a Greek Cypriot high jumper.His personal best jump and Cypriot national record is 2.35 metres, achieved at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics held in Osaka where he won the bronze medal....	2.35 WL
	Thomas won the gold with his first attempt at 2.35 m. Olympic champion Stefan Holm Stefan Holm Stefan Christian Holm is a retired Sweden high jumper. He has won an Olympic Games gold medal, four gold and a silver medal in the World Championships in Athletics, and a gold, two silver medals and a bronze medal in the European Championships in Athletics....  failed to clear this height - his best of 2.33 was good enough only for fourth. Ioannou's bronze was the first ever for Cyprus at any World Championships.
Pole Vault 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Men's pole vault The men's pole vault event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 30 2007 and 1 September 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan....	Brad Walker	5.86	Romain Mesnil Romain Mesnil Romain Mesnil is a France pole vaulter. His personal best is 5.95 metres, achieved in August 2003 in Castres.His coach is Georges Martin....	5.86 SB	Danny Ecker Danny Ecker Danny Ecker is a Germany athlete competing in the pole vault.His current personal best is 5.93 metres, but through his indoor best performance of 6.00 metres he has a place in the so-called 6 metres club....	5.81
	Walker was declared the winner on countback as he had cleared 5.86 with his first attempt, Mesnil with his second.
Long jump 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Men's long jump The men's long jump event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 29 2007 and August 30 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan....	Irving Saladino Irving Saladino Irving Jahir Saladino Aranda is a Panamanian long jumper. He is the current World and Olympic champion, and Panama's first Olympic gold medallist....	8.57 AR	Andrew Howe Andrew Howe Andrew Howe is an Italian Athletics who specializes in the long jump and Sprint . He won this event as well as the 200 metres at the 2004 World Junior Championships in Athletics....	8.47 NR	Dwight Phillips Dwight Phillips Dwight Phillips is an United States Athletics who specializes in the long jump. He has also competed in the 60 meters and 100 meters sprints....	8.30
	Saladino moved into the outright lead with his third round jump of 8.46. This distance looked set to win the title until Howe went 1 cm further in the final round. However, with the very last jump of the contest, Saladino flew at 8.57 to seal a dramatic gold for Panama.
Triple Jump 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Men's triple jump The men's triple jump event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 25 2007 and August 27 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan....	Nelson Évora Nelson Évora Nelson ?vora is a Portuguese Athletics who specializes in the triple jump and long jump. He is the current triple jump Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's triple jump and 2007 World Championships in Athletics champion....	17.74 NR	Jadel Gregório Jadel Gregório Jadel Abdul Ghani Greg?rio is a Brazilian Athletics competing in long jump and triple jump. Based in S?o Paulo, he has competed in several international championships since 2001, and never finished worse than 6th....	17.59	Walter Davis Walter Davis (athletics) Walter L. Davis is an African American athlete competing in the triple jump and occasionally in the long jump. He was born in Lafayette, Louisiana...	17.33 SB
	Évora assumed the lead from the very first jump and truly consolidated his victory with a second-best world leading mark at the third attempt. Gregório, the 2007 world leader, was only able to surpass Évora's first jump with his penultimate effort, leapfrogging defending champion Walter Davis, who had held second place since the opening round.
Shot Put 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....	Reese Hoffa Reese Hoffa Reese Hoffa is an United States shot putter. Reese won the shot put in the 2006 World Indoor Track and Field Championships in Moscow, Russia. As of 2007, his personal bests stand at 22.11 m indoor and 22.43 m outdoor....	22.04	Adam Nelson Adam Nelson Adam Nelson is an elite United States shotputter. A 1997 graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, New Hampshire, Nelson has competed in two Olympic Games....	21.61 SB	Andrei Mikhnevich Andrei Mikhnevich Andrei Anatolyevich Mikhnevich is a Belarusian shot putter with a personal best of 22.00 metres, set in 2008.He received a two-year suspension for a List of doping cases in sport on August 7, 2001....	21.27 SB
	Hoffa held the lead throughout the competition making the four longest throws of the final. Defending champion Nelson had only two legal throws, in the first two rounds. Dutchman Rutger Smith Rutger Smith Rutger Smith is a Netherlands athlete competing in shot put and discus throw, the first athlete to win medals at World Championships in both events....  finished a close fourth and Dane Joachim Olsen was disappointed not to record a mark.
Discus 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Men's discus throw The men's discus throw event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 26 2007 and August 28 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan....	Gerd Kanter Gerd Kanter Gerd Kanter is an Estonian discus thrower.He competed at the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's Discus, but didn't reach the final....	68.94	Robert Harting Robert Harting Robert Harting is a Germany discus thrower.He won the silver medals at the 2001 World Youth Championships in Athletics and the 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Men's discus throw....	66.68	Rutger Smith Rutger Smith Rutger Smith is a Netherlands athlete competing in shot put and discus throw, the first athlete to win medals at World Championships in both events....	66.42
	Double Olympic, European and double defending champion Virgilijus Alekna Virgilijus Alekna Virgilijus Alekna is a famous Lithuanian athlete....  disappointed, finishing fourth with 65.24 m. With his bronze, Dutchman Smith set a new record, becoming the first person to win a World Championship medal in both shot put (a silver in 2005 2005 World Championships in Athletics The 10th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations , were held in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Helsinki, Finland , the site of the first IAAF World Championships in 1983.... ) and discus throw.
Javelin 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Men's javelin throw The men's javelin throw event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 31 2007 and 2 September 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan....	Tero Pitkämäki Tero Pitkämäki Tero Kristian Pitk?m?ki is a Finnish javelin thrower and the current World Champion. Pitk?m?ki is known for his rivalry with Olympic champion Andreas Thorkildsen....	90.33	Andreas Thorkildsen Andreas Thorkildsen Andreas Thorkildsen is a Norway javelin thrower, born in Kristiansand. He was Summer Olympics in Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics and Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics, European Championships in Athletics in 2006, and twice silver medalist at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics....	88.61	Breaux Greer Breaux Greer Edward Breaux Greer is a male American javelin thrower. He is an eight time American Champion and American record holder for the javelin with a throw of 91.29 meters, achieved on 21 June 2007 during the U.S....	86.21
	Pitkämäki's second round throw of 89.16 proved enough for victory. With the title already won, he went further still with the final throw of the competition.
Hammer 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Men's hammer throw The men's hammer throw event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 25 2007 and August 27 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan....	Ivan Tsikhan	83.63 WL	Primož Kozmus Primož Kozmus Primo? Kozmus is a Slovenian hammer thrower. He won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. This is the first Olympic gold medal in athletics for Slovenia....	82.29	Libor Charfreitag Libor Charfreitag Libor Charfreitag is a Slovakia hammer thrower.His personal best throw is 81.81 metres, achieved in June 2003 in Prague.He was chosen Slovak athlete of the year in 2003....	81.60 SB
	Tsikhan left it late to win his third consecutive world title. Lying fourth going into the final round, he produced a throw of 83.63 which none of the three remaining competitors could better.
Decathlon Decathlon The decathlon is an athletic event consisting of ten track and field events. Events are held over two consecutive days and the winners are determined by the combined performance in all....	Roman Šebrle Roman Šebrle Roman ?ebrle is an athlete from the Czech Republic. Originally a high jumper, he competes in decathlon and heptathlon for team TJ Dukla Praha and is a world record holder in the decathlon....	8676	Maurice Smith Maurice Smith (decathlon) Maurice Smith is a decathlete from Jamaica. He represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, finishing in 14th place....	8644 NR	Dmitriy Karpov Dmitriy Karpov Dmitriy Karpov is an athlete from Kazakhstan who competes in decathlon and heptathlon . He won the bronze medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics. In 2006 he won the decathlon meeting in Talence, finishing with 8438 points....	8586 SB
	Olympic champion Šebrle, World Championship runner-up in 2003 and 2005, won his first world title in a close contest. Smith led the standings through eight events, but the medals were then decided in the javelin discipline. Despite season best throws from Smith and Karpov, veteran Šebrle moved up from third to first in the overall standings thanks to a personal best of 71.18. The Czech then did enough to hold onto his lead in the concluding 1500m. Smith's score of 8,644 points was a huge improvement on the previous Jamaican record. Defending champion Bryan Clay Bryan Clay Bryan Ezra Tsumoru Clay is an American decathlete. He is the reigning Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's decathlon and was also 2005 World Championships in Athletics in 2005....  withdrew injured after four events.

Women's Results

Track

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
100 m	Veronica Campbell Veronica Campbell Veronica Campbell-Brown Order of Distinction is a Athletics Sprint athlete, competing internationally for Jamaica. A five-time Olympic Games medalist, she is the reigning Olympic 200 m and IAAF World Championships in Athletics 100 m champion....	11.01	Lauryn Williams Lauryn Williams Lauryn Williams is a athletics sprint athlete, competing internationally for the United States.Williams was born and raised in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Detroit, Michigan....	11.01 SB	Carmelita Jeter Carmelita Jeter Carmelita Jeter is an United States sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.In 2007 she won bronze medal at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics in a personal best time of 11.02 seconds....	11.02 PB
	It was arguably the closest World Championship 100 meter final for women (to date, the 1993 1993 World Championships in Athletics The 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held in the Gottlieb-Daimler-Stadion, Stuttgart, Germany between August 13 and August 22....  final is the only other race where the top two athletes clocked the same time). With the top five finishing within five hundredths of a second, and with both gold and silver medalists, Veronica Campbell and Lauryn Williams, respectively, finishing at 11.01 seconds, it took some minutes for the judges to determine who had won.
200 m	Allyson Felix Allyson Felix Allyson Felix is a athletics Sprint athlete who competes internationally for the United States, primarily in the 200 metres. She is a two-time Olympic silver medalist and a two-time Track and field athletics World Championship gold medalist in that event....	21.81 WL	Veronica Campbell Veronica Campbell Veronica Campbell-Brown Order of Distinction is a Athletics Sprint athlete, competing internationally for Jamaica. A five-time Olympic Games medalist, she is the reigning Olympic 200 m and IAAF World Championships in Athletics 100 m champion....	22.34 SB	Susanthika Jayasinghe Susanthika Jayasinghe Susanthika Jayasinghe is a Sprint Athletics specializing in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She was born in Atnawala, Sri Lanka.Brought up in a poor family in a small village 60 kilometres north of Colombo, where running spikes cost more than the average month's wage, Susanthika had no access to proper sports equipment or coach es....	22.63
	Felix claimed a convincing victory with a personal best of 21.81, the fastest World Championship time since Inger Miller's Inger Miller Inger Miller is a track and field Sprint athlete, competing internationally for United States. She is the daughter of Lennox Miller, an Olympic champion runner from Jamaica....  gold medal run in 1999 1999 World Championships in Athletics The 7th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations, were held at the Estadio Ol?mpico de Sevilla, Seville, Spain, between the August 20 and August 29.... . Jayasinghe edged Torri Edwards Torri Edwards Torri Edwards is an United States Sprint . She was a rising young star in 100 metres and 200 metres, winning an Olympic medal in 4×100 metres relay in Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics....  for third to claim her first World Championship medal in ten years.
400 m	Christine Ohuruogu Christine Ohuruogu Christine Ijeoma Ohuruogu Order of the British Empire is an England Sprint who specialises in the 400 metres - the event for which she is the current Commonwealth Games, IAAF World Championships in Athletics and Summer Olympic Games Champion....	49.61 PB	Nicola Sanders Nicola Sanders Nicola Clare Sanders is a United Kingdom Sprint and hurdler. Nicola won a bronze medal in the European Junior Championships in Riga in 1999 at 400m hurdles....	49.65 PB	Novlene Williams Novlene Williams Novlene Williams is a track and field athlete, competing internationally for the Jamaica. She was a bronze medalist in the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece....	49.66 SB
	Williams led the field approaching the home straight with the Russian Natalya Antyukh Natalya Antyukh Natalya Nikolayevna Antyukh is a Russian athlete who primarily competes in the 400 metres.In addition to winning medals in individual contests, she has been a very successful relay race runner, winning a silver medal at the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 4 x 400 metres relay....  and American United States The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...  athlete Dee Dee Trotter ahead of the two Britons at this point. However, Ohuruogu and Sanders closed quickly on the other athletes. Williams held the lead up until the final five metres, where she tied up quickly, allowing the two British athletes to take the first two medals on a dip. Ohuruogu surprised the field to take the gold medal with a personal best, just 24 days after her 12 month suspension for missing three out-of-competition doping tests expired.
800 m	Janeth Jepkosgei Janeth Jepkosgei Janeth Jepkosgei is a Kenyan Middle distance track event runner and world champion....	1:56.04 WL	Hasna Benhassi Hasna Benhassi Hasna Benhassi is a Morocco middle distance track event.She first came to international prominence at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, winning a surprise silver medal behind Kelly Holmes....	1:56.99	Mayte Martínez	1:57.62 PB
	Jepkosgei led from start to finish.
1500 m	Maryam Yusuf Jamal Maryam Yusuf Jamal Maryam Yusuf Jamal is a Bahraini middle distance track and field. Born in Ethiopia, 2005 was her first full season. She gained the national record and led the world in the 3000 m in July 2005 with a time of 8:28.87 at a race in Oslo....	3:58.75 SB	Yelena Soboleva Yelena Soboleva Yelena Vladimirovna Soboleva is a Russian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.In February 2008 she established a new world indoor record of 3:58.05 seconds in a race in Moscow, and in March 2008 she beat her own world record in Valencia, Spain....	3:58.99	Iryna Lishchynska Iryna Lishchynska Iryna Lishchynska , n?e Nedelenko is a Ukraine middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres....	4:00.69 SB
	World number one Soboleva led from the gun until passed by Jamal on the back straight of the last lap. Jamal's sprint failed to break the field, but she just managed to hold off Soboleva for the win.
5000 m	Meseret Defar Meseret Defar Meseret Defar is a female long-distance runner from Ethiopia who competes in the 3000 metres 5000 metres events. She has won medals at top-tier international competitions including Olympic Games and World Championships in Athletics gold medals over 5000 metres....	14:57.91	Vivian Cheruiyot Vivian Cheruiyot Vivian Cheruiyot is an athlete from Kenya. She specializes in Long-distance track event.She is trained by Ricky Simms She holds the 5000 m Kenyan record set at the Bislett Games in Oslo on 15 June, 2007....	14:58.50	Priscah Jepleting Cherono	14:59.21
	Defar added the world title to her Olympic gold medal. A personal best of 14:59.26 by Kenyan Sylvia Kibet Sylvia Kibet Sylvia Jebiwott Kibet is an Kenyan long-distance runner.She won the bronze medal in 5000 metres at the 2006 African Championships in Athletics and finished fifth in 3000 metres at the 2006 IAAF World Athletics Final....  left her in fourth, just five hundredths of a second outside the medals.
10,000 m 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Women's 10000 metres The women's 10,000 metres event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 25 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan....	Tirunesh Dibaba Tirunesh Dibaba Tirunesh Dibaba also known as Tirunesh Dibaba Kenene is an Ethiopian long-distance track event track Athletics and the outdoor 5000 metres World records in athletics holder....	31:55.41 SB	Elvan Abeylegesse Elvan Abeylegesse Elvan Abeylegesse is a Turkish Middle distance track event and Long-distance track event sportsperson, running in the disciplines of 1500 m, 3000 m and 5000 m, but also 10000 m, 2 miles and Cross country running....	31:59.40	Kara Goucher Kara Goucher Kara Goucher is an United States middle and long-distance runner....	32:02.05 SB
	Dibaba fell behind the leaders half way through the race, with obvious stomach trouble, however she managed to pull back to the front and take historic back-to-back 10,000 m titles. Abeylegesse, was one of two athletes, who lost her shoe, and then had to stop to put it back on her foot before rejoining the race. Great Britain's Joanne Pavey went into third place in the penultimate lap, leading until the home straight, when Goucher went back to claim the medal.
Marathon 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Women's marathon The women's marathon event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on 2 September 2007 in the streets of Osaka, Japan....	Catherine Ndereba Catherine Ndereba Wincatherine Nyambura Ndereba is a world class Kenyan marathon . She won the Boston Marathon four times and silver medals in the Olympics in 2004 and 2008....	2:30:37	Zhou Chunxiu Zhou Chunxiu Zhou Chunxiu is a PR China marathon race.She finished fourth at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics - Women's Marathon. She also competed at the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's Marathon, finishing in 33rd place....	2:30:45	Reiko Tosa Reiko Tosa Reiko Tosa is a Japanese long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon race....	2:30:55
	Ndereba pulled clear over the final two kilometres to win her second world title. Tosa delighted the home crowd by passing Zhu Xiaolin Zhu Xiaolin Zhu Xiaolin is a PR China long-distance runner.She finished fourth at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Women's marathon.She finished fourth in the ....  over the closing stages to claim the bronze.
100 m H	Michelle Perry Michelle Perry Michelle Perry is an United States athlete. At the 2004 Summer Olympics she placed 14th overall in the heptathlon competition. Later, at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics, she was awarded a gold medal in the 100 m hurdles with a time of 12.66 seconds....	12.46	Perdita Felicien Perdita Felicien Perdita Felicien is a Canadian hurdling in track and field athletic competition....	12.49 SB	Delloreen Ennis-London Delloreen Ennis-London Delloreen Ennis-London is a Jamaican hurdling Athletics who won the silver medal in the 100 meter hurdles at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics....	12.50 PB
	The initial celebrations of Ennis-London proved premature as defending champion Perry was confirmed the winner of a close race after an anxious wait.
400 m H	Jana Rawlinson Jana Rawlinson Jana Rawlinson n?e Pittman is an Australian athlete who specialises in the 400 m run and 400 m hurdles events. She is a two-time world champion in the 400 m hurdles, from 2003 World Championships in Athletics and 2007 World Championships in Athletics....	53.31 SB	Yuliya Pechenkina	53.50 SB	Anna Jesien Anna Jesien Anna Jesien, nee Anna Olichwierczuk is a Poland hurdler.She won the bronze medal in the 400m hurdles at the 2002 European Championships in Athletics in Munich....	53.92
	Rawlinson ran her fastest time of the season to hold off Pechenkina for the win.
3000 m SC 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Women's 3000 metres steeplechase The women's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 25 2007 and August 27 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan....	Yekaterina Volkova Yekaterina Volkova File:Yekaterina Volkova on 2008 Summer Olympics.jpgYekaterina Gennadiyevna Volkova is a Russian long-distance runner who specializes in the 3000 metres steeplechase....	9:06.57 CR / PB	Tatyana Petrova Tatyana Petrova Tatyana Valeriyevna Petrova is a Russian runner who specializes in the 3000 metres steeplechase.She won the silver medals at the 2006 European Athletics Championships and the 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Women's 3000 metres steeplechase, the latter in a personal best time of 9:09.19 minutes....	9:09.19 PB	Eunice Jepkorir Eunice Jepkorir Eunice Jepkorir is a Kenyan Long-distance track event runner.She is from Eldama Ravine. Her parents are farmers and she has eight siblings . She started serious running at the age of 15 while at high school....	9:20.09
	Volkova set the second fastest time in the event's relatively short history to win from compatriot Petrova.
20 km Walk	Olga Kaniskina Olga Kaniskina Olga Nikolaevna Kaniskina is a Russian race walking.She won the silver medal in the 20 km race at the 2006 European Championships in Athletics and gold medals at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and the 2008 Beijing Olympics....	1:30:09	Tatyana Shemyakina Tatyana Shemyakina Tatyana Shemyakina is a Russian race walking.She won the silver medal at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics in Osaka.References...	1:30:42	María Vasco María Vasco Mar?a del Monte Vasco Pes Gallardo is a Spain race walking, who won the bronze medal over 20 km at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and the bronze medal at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics in Osaka....	1:30:47
	Both Kaniskina and Shemyakina held on to their final places since they left the stadium for the first time, with the winner performing a very strong and consistent race. María Vasco raced from behind surpassing Tatyana Sibileva Tatyana Sibileva Tatyana Sibileva is a Russian racewalking.AchievementsReferences...  to prevent another Russian clean sweep.
4 × 100 m	Lauryn Williams Lauryn Williams Lauryn Williams is a athletics sprint athlete, competing internationally for the United States.Williams was born and raised in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Detroit, Michigan.... Allyson Felix Allyson Felix Allyson Felix is a athletics Sprint athlete who competes internationally for the United States, primarily in the 200 metres. She is a two-time Olympic silver medalist and a two-time Track and field athletics World Championship gold medalist in that event.... Mikele Barber Mikele Barber Mikele Ronisse Barber is an United States Sprint who won gold at the 4 x 100 m relay event in 2007 World Championships in Athletics, in Osaka, Japan.... Torri Edwards Torri Edwards Torri Edwards is an United States Sprint . She was a rising young star in 100 metres and 200 metres, winning an Olympic medal in 4×100 metres relay in Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics....	41.98 WL	Sheri-Ann Brooks Sheri-Ann Brooks Sheri-Ann Brooks is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.Brooks represented the Jamaica at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.... Kerron Stewart Kerron Stewart Kerron Stewart is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres and 200 meters. She is the 2008 Jamaican national champion in the 100 meters clocking 10.80s.... Simone Facey Simone Facey Simone Facey is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.... Veronica Campbell Veronica Campbell Veronica Campbell-Brown Order of Distinction is a Athletics Sprint athlete, competing internationally for Jamaica. A five-time Olympic Games medalist, she is the reigning Olympic 200 m and IAAF World Championships in Athletics 100 m champion....	42.01 SB	Olivia Borlée Olivia Borlée Olivia Borl?e is a Belgium sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres. Her personal best time in the individual distance is 22.98 seconds, achieved in July 2006 in Brussels.... Hanna Mariën Hanna Mariën Hanna Mari?n is a Belgium sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres. Her personal best time on the individual distance is 22.68 seconds, achieved in July 2006 in Brussels.... Élodie Ouédraogo Élodie Ouédraogo ?lodie Ou?draogo is a Belgium sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres. Her personal best time in the 200 metres is 23.11 seconds, achieved in July 2004 in Brussels.... Kim Gevaert Kim Gevaert Kim Gevaert is a former Belgium Sprint Athletics .Her closest brush with a world title came in running 4/100 of a second behind three-time champion Gail Devers at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics....	42.75 NR
	Individual 100 m champion Campbell almost ran down Edwards' lead on the final leg, but the U.S. sprinter hung on to ensure a successful title defence.
4 × 400 m	DeeDee Trotter DeeDee Trotter De'Hashia Tonnek Trotter is an United States athlete.She currently lives in Knoxville, Tennessee, Tennessee, where she studies at the University of Tennessee and trains at Tom Black Track.... Allyson Felix Allyson Felix Allyson Felix is a athletics Sprint athlete who competes internationally for the United States, primarily in the 200 metres. She is a two-time Olympic silver medalist and a two-time Track and field athletics World Championship gold medalist in that event.... Mary Wineberg Mary Wineberg Mary Wineberg is an US athlete from Cincinnati, Ohio, Ohio. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, New York. After graduating from Walnut Hills High School, she attended the University of Cincinnati on a track scholarship, graduating in 2002 with a bachelors degree in education.... Sanya Richards Sanya Richards Sanya Richards is a track and field athlete who competes internationally for the United States. She was a gold medalist in the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece and at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China....	3:18:55 WL	Shericka Williams Shericka Williams Shericka Williams is a Jamaican Sprint and former student of St. Elizabeth Technical High School.Together with Novlene Williams, Ronetta Smith and Lorraine Fenton she won a silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics.... Shereefa Lloyd Shereefa Lloyd Shereefa Lloyd is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.At the 2007 World Championships in Athletics she won a bronze medal in 4x400 metres relay, together with teammates Shericka Williams, Davita Prendagast and Novlene Williams.... Davita Prendagast Davita Prendagast Davita Prendagast is a Jamaican sprinter who specializes in the 400 metres.... Novlene Williams Novlene Williams Novlene Williams is a track and field athlete, competing internationally for the Jamaica. She was a bronze medalist in the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece....	3:19:73 NR	Christine Ohuruogu Christine Ohuruogu Christine Ijeoma Ohuruogu Order of the British Empire is an England Sprint who specialises in the 400 metres - the event for which she is the current Commonwealth Games, IAAF World Championships in Athletics and Summer Olympic Games Champion.... Marilyn Okoro Marilyn Okoro Marilyn Chinwenwa Okoro is a British athlete of Nigerian ancestry. She received a bronze medal for the 800 metres at both the 2007 IAAF World Athletics Final and 2008 IAAF World Athletics Final.... Lee McConnell Lee McConnell Lee McConnell is a Scotland athlete who competes in the 400 metres. She attended Holyrood R.C. Secondary School in Glasgow before graduating from Loughborough University in 2000 with a degree in Sports Science.... Nicola Sanders Nicola Sanders Nicola Clare Sanders is a United Kingdom Sprint and hurdler. Nicola won a bronze medal in the European Junior Championships in Riga in 1999 at 400m hurdles....	3:20:04 NR
	Felix pulled past Lloyd on the second leg to put the United States into first place, where they remained. The gold was Felix's third of the Championships. Sanders ran down Russian Natalya Antyukh Natalya Antyukh Natalya Nikolayevna Antyukh is a Russian athlete who primarily competes in the 400 metres.In addition to winning medals in individual contests, she has been a very successful relay race runner, winning a silver medal at the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 4 x 400 metres relay....  on the finishing straight to win bronze for Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Field

Event:	Gold:		Silver:		Bronze:
High Jump High jump The high jump is an athletics event in which competitors must jump over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without the aid of any devices....	Blanka Vlašic Blanka Vlašic Blanka Vla?ic [] is a Croatian high jumper and current world champion. Her personal best jump of 2.07 m was set on August 7, 2007. Only two other women have jumped higher than this....	2.05	Antonietta Di Martino Antonietta Di Martino Antonietta Di Martino is an Italy high jumper. She currently holds the Italian national women's high jump record .She finished twelfth at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics in Edmonton....  / Anna Chicherova Anna Chicherova Anna Vladimirovna Chicherova is a Russian high jumper. She won a bronze medal in this event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China equalling her personal best at the time of 2.03.... /	2.03 Di Martino: NR / Chicherova: PB
	After an outstanding season, Vlašic was the big favourite coming into the final, and she did not disappoint. Di Martino and Chicherova gave the Croatian a run for her money though, as they both cleared 2.03 and shared second place. With Russians Slesarenko and Savchenko both clearing 2.00, this was the first ever women's high jump competition with 5 jumpers over 2.00 and also the first ever with 3 jumpers clearing 2.03.
Pole Vault 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Women's pole vault The women's pole vault event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 26 2007 and August 28 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan....	Yelena Isinbayeva Yelena Isinbayeva Yelena Gadzhievna Isinbaeva is a Russian pole vaulter. She is a two-time Olympic Gold Medalist , was named Female Athlete of the Year by the IAAF in 2004, 2005 and 2008, and World Sportswoman of the Year by Laureus....	4.80	Katerina Badurová Katerina Badurová Katerina Badurov? is a Czech pole vaulter.She finished twelfth at the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men's pole vault. She also competed at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships and the European Championships in 2002 European Championships in Athletics and 2006 European Championships in Athletics without reaching the finals....	4.75 NR	Svetlana Feofanova Svetlana Feofanova Svetlana Yevgenyevna Feofanova is a Russian pole vaulter. She won the silver medal in women's pole vaulting at the 2004 Summer Olympics behind compatriot Yelena Isinbayeva, and won the bronze in the 2008 Summer Olympics....	4.75
	Isinbayeva was the only one to vault over 4.80 m. Then she attacked the world record trying to jump 5.02 m, but failed. Three athletes beat the height of 4.75 m, but only Badurová succeeded with her first attempt, taking silver. Feofanova took bronze, beating Monika Pyrek Monika Pyrek Monika Pyrek is a Poland pole vaulter.Born in Gdynia, competing at the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's Pole Vault, she placed fourth with 4.55 metres, just behind another Polish pole vaulter born in Gdynia, Anna Rogowska....  thanks to her better first attempt on 4.70 m.
Long Jump 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Women's long jump The women's long jump event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 27 2007 and August 28 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan....	Tatyana Lebedeva Tatyana Lebedeva Tatyana Romanovna Lebedeva is a Russian Athletics who competes on the world stage in both the long jump and triple jump disciplines.In the finals of the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics, after equalling Ashia Hansen's triple jump indoor world record with her first jump, Tatyana then improved on this twice finishing with a...	7.03	Lyudmila Kolchanova Lyudmila Kolchanova Lyudmila Sergeyevna Kolchanova is a Russian long jumper.Her personal best jump is 7.21 metres, achieved in May 2007 in Sochi....	6.92	Tatyana Kotova Tatyana Kotova Tatyana Vladimirovna Kotova is an athlete who competes for Russia in the long jump. Her statistics are listed as:Her personal best was a jump of 7.42 m at Annecy in 2002....	6.90 SB
	Lebedeva twice jumped 7.03 m to head a Russian clean sweep of the medals.
Triple Jump 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Women's triple jump The women's triple jump event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 29 2007 and August 31 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan....	Yargelis Savigne Yargelis Savigne Yargelis Savigne is a Cuban athlete competing in the triple jump and long jump.Her international breakthrough came in 2005, when she, competing in both the 2005 World Championships in Athletics - Women's Triple Jump and 2005 World Championships in Athletics - Women's Long Jump events at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics, won a silv...	15.28 WL	Tatyana Lebedeva Tatyana Lebedeva Tatyana Romanovna Lebedeva is a Russian Athletics who competes on the world stage in both the long jump and triple jump disciplines.In the finals of the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics, after equalling Ashia Hansen's triple jump indoor world record with her first jump, Tatyana then improved on this twice finishing with a...	15.07	Hrysopiyí Devetzí Hrysopiyí Devetzí Hrysopiyi Devetzi is a Greece Athletics competing in the triple jump and also long jump.She won the triple jump silver medal at the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics with 15.25 and the triple jump bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics with 15.23....	15.04
	Lebedeva's dominance of the event and her hopes of an unprecedented long jump/triple jump double were ended by Savigne, whose opening jump of 15.28 m proved decisive.
Shot Put 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Women's shot put The women's shot put event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 26 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan....	Valerie Vili Valerie Vili Valerie Kasanita Vili, New Zealand Order of Merit is a shot putter from New Zealand. She is the reigning Olympic champion, world champion and Commonwealth record-holder, having thrown a distance of 20.56 m....	20.54 WL / AR	Nadzeya Astapchuk	20.48 SB	Nadine Kleinert Nadine Kleinert , since 1999 married 'Schmitt' is a Germany shot putter.Her personal best throw is 20.06 metres, achieved in July 2005 in Hannover....	19.77 SB
	Astapchuk lead throughout the rounds but Vili responded in the final round with a 20.54 throw. Astapchuk's last round effort of 20.48 was not enough to catch the New Zealand New Zealand New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands.... er, who set a Commonwealth record.
Discus 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Women's discus throw The women's discus throw event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 27 2007 and August 29 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan....	Franka Dietzsch Franka Dietzsch Franka Dietzsch is a Germany discus thrower best known for winning gold medals at three World Championships in Athletics. She won the 1998 European Championships in Athletics and 1999 World Championships in Athletics, but did not return to the international podium until her win at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics - Women's Discus....	66.61	Darya Pishchalnikova Darya Pishchalnikova Darya Vitalyevna Pishchalnikova is a Russian discus thrower.Her personal best throw is 65.78 metres, achieved when she won the silver medal at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Women's discus throw in Osaka, August 2007....	65.78 PB	Yarelis Barrios Yarelis Barrios Yarelis Barrios is a Cuban discus thrower. Her personal best throw is 63.90 metres, achieved at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Women's discus throw in Osaka....	63.90 PB
	Dietzsch's opening effort of 66.61 m proved enough to secure the gold medal for the third time in her career. At 39, she became the second-oldest athletics world champion in history.
Javelin 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Women's javelin throw The women's javelin throw event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 29 2007 and August 31 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan....	Barbora Špotáková Barbora Špotáková Barbora ?pot?kov? is a Czech Republic javelin thrower. She is the current IAAF World Championships in Athletics and Olympic Games champion, as well as the world record holder....	67.07 NR	Christina Obergföll Christina Obergföll Christina Obergf?ll is a Germany athlete, competing in the javelin throw.At the 2005 World Championships in Athletics she won the silver medal with a European records in athletics by finishing second behind Osleidys Men?ndez, who set a new world record at the same event....	66.46	Steffi Nerius Steffi Nerius Steffi Nerius is a Germany athlete competing in the javelin throw. She won silver at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.Initially playing volleyball in school, she was too short for a career in this sport and switched to athletics instead....	64.42
	The final was a battle between two pairs of German Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....  and Czech Czech Republic The Czech Republic , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country borders Poland to the northeast, Germany to the west, Austria to the south and Slovakia to the east....  throwers which ended with a loss for this year unbeaten Obergföll. Špotáková improved the Czech national record (previously 66.21 held by herself since 2006) twice. She took an early lead for 66.40 m in her first attempt and secured the gold medal with her third throw (67.07) before Obergföll who reached 66.46 in the sixth attempt. Both Špotáková and Obergföl had a solid row of attempts over 60 m. Nerius (64.42) managed to get the bronze when she overcame Nikola Brejchová Nikola Brejchová Nikola Brejchov? , n?e Tomeckov? is a Czech Republic javelin thrower.Her personal best throw is 65.91 metres, achieved in August 2004 in Linz....  (63.73) in the fourth round.
Hammer 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Women's hammer throw The women's hammer throw event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 28 2007 and August 30 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan....	Betty Heidler Betty Heidler Betty Heidler is a Germany hammer thrower. She is living in Frankfurt now and member of the Eintracht Frankfurt athletes team. She is working for the German Federal Police where she is member of the sports support group and started studying Bachelor of Laws at the Fernuniversit?t Hagen in 2007....	74.76	Yipsi Moreno Yipsi Moreno Yipsi Moreno Gonz?lez is a Cuban hammer thrower. She is a double World Champions in athletics and List of Olympic medalists in athletics #Hammer throw, a former world junior record holder and current area record holder....	74.74	Zhang Wenxiu Zhang Wenxiu Zhang Wenxiu is a PR China hammer thrower.She won the 2005 Asian Championships in Athletics and Athletics at the 2006 Asian Games. She finished tenth at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics, seventh at the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's Hammer Throw, fifth at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics and fourth at the...	74.39
	In a tight contest, Moreno's final round throw fell just 2 cm short of Heidler's 74.76, set in round two. Ivana Brkljacic Ivana Brkljacic Ivana Brkljacic is a Croatian hammer thrower.She achieved good results as a teenager, winning the World Junior Championships in Athletics twice and finishing 11th in the 2000 Olympic finals at the age of 17....  failed to follow up on her qualification-leading throw of 74.69 and had to settle with 11th place.
Heptathlon 2007 World Championships in Athletics - Women's heptathlon The women's heptathlon event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 25 and August 26 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan....	Carolina Klüft Carolina Klüft Carolina Evelyn Kl?ft is a Swedish Track and field athletics competing in triple jump, long jump and formerly in heptathlon and women's pentathlon....	7032 WL / AR	Lyudmila Blonska Lyudmila Blonska Lyudmyla Leonydivna Blonska , n?e Shevchuk is a Ukraine heptathlon, long jumper and 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships champion women's pentathlon....	6832 NR	Kelly Sotherton Kelly Sotherton Kelly Jade Sotherton is an England heptathlon.Sotherton was born in Newport, Isle of Wight on the Isle of Wight. As a teenager, she played netball for Hampshire, but also won two English Schools? championships in the heptathlon....	6510 SB
	Klüft set a European Record and became the second highest scorer ever in taking her third consecutive World Championship title and 19th consecutive heptathlon win. Sotherton had to fight with Jessica Ennis Jessica Ennis Jessica Ennis is a United Kingdom Athletics , competing in the heptathlon. Her father is Jamaican and her mother English people. Her first senior championships was the 2005 World University Games, where she won the bronze medal....  for a medal in the 800 m, after a poor javelin. Ennis won the 800 meters by only 0.19 seconds which was not enough, giving her the fourth place after Sotherton.

Medal Table

1		14	4	8	26
2		5	3	5	13
3		4	9	3	16
4		3	1	0	4
5		2	2	3	7
6		2	1	0	3
7		2	0	0	2
8		1	6	3	10
9		1	2	0	3
10		1	1	3	5
11		1	1	1	3
		1	1	1	3
		1	1	1	3
14		1	1	0	2
15		1	0	0	1
		1	0	0	1
		1	0	0	1
		1	0	0	1
		1	0	0	1
		1	0	0	1
		1	0	0	1
		1	0	0	1
23		0	2	1	3
24		0	2	0	2
		0	2	0	2
26		0	1	2	3
27		0	1	1	2
28		0	1	0	1
		0	1	0	1
		0	1	0	1
		0	1	0	1
		0	1	0	1
		0	1	0	1
		0	1	0	1
35		0	0	3	3
36		0	0	1	1
		0	0	1	1
		0	0	1	1
		0	0	1	1
		0	0	1	1
		0	0	1	1
		0	0	1	1
		0	0	1	1
		0	0	1	1
		0	0	1	1
		0	0	1	1
Total		47	48	46	141

Broadcasting

Japan

• Broadcaster - TBS (Host broadcaster)
  Tokyo Broadcasting System
  
  or TBS, is a television network in Tokyo, Japan.TBS has a 28-affiliate news network called Japan News Network, as well as a 34-affiliate radio network called Japan Radio Network which TBS Radio & Communications has....
   and MBS (Cooperator)
  Mainichi Broadcasting System
  
  is a broadcasting station in Osaka, Japan, and it is affiliated with Japan Radio Network, National Radio Network , Japan News Network and TBS Network....
  
• Caster - Yuji Oda
  Yuji Oda
  
  is a Japanese actor and singer.Yuji Oda was born on 13 December 1967 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. He was born to an upper-middle-class family and attended the private academy of Touin Gakuen....
   and Miho Nakai
• Fieldcaster - Beni Arashiro
  Beni Arashiro
  
  , born March 30, 1986, known by her stage name Beni, is a Japanese pop singer, songwriter and former actress. She was born in Okinawa prefecture and moved to California and then Yokohama....
  
• Official song - All my treasures (Yuji Oda)

Worldwide

• Arab World
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  The Arab World refers to Arabic-speaking countries stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Arabian Sea in the east, and from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the Horn of Africa and the Indian Ocean in the southeast....
   - Al Jazeera Sports
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• Australia
  Australia
  
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   - SBS TV
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• Belgium
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   - Sporza
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
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   - BHTV1
• Brazil
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   - SporTV
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  This article is about the Brazilian sports network. For the similarly named and themed network in Portugal, see Sport TV.SporTV is a Brazilian cable television television network that has his programming based on all sports, launched in 1991 by Globosat....
  
• Bulgaria
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   - BNT
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• Canada
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   - CBC
• Caribbean
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   - CMC
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• China
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   - CCTV
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• Croatia
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  Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
   - HRT2
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• Czech Republic
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   - CT2
  Ceská televize
  
  Cesk? televize is the public television broadcaster in the Czech Republic, broadcasting four channels....
  
• Denmark
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  Denmark is a Scandinavian country in northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries....
   - DR2
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  DR2 is a Denmark television station. It is part of Danmarks Radio, the Public broadcasting broadcasting company of Denmark.It was launched in 1996 as a Satellite television-/Cable television-only channel....
  
• Estonia
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  Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Finland across the Gulf of Finland, to the west by Sweden across the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by the Russia ....
   - ETV
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  Eesti Televisioon is the national public broadcasting television station of Estonia. It made its first broadcast on 19 July 1955.The bulk of ETV's funding comes from government grant-in-aid, around 15% of which is in turn funded by the fees paid by Estonian commercial broadcasters in return for their exclusive right to screen television co...
  
• Europe
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  Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
   - Eurosport
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  Eurosport is a European sports satellite and cable television network, available in 54 countries and broadcasting in 20 different languages. It is owned and operated by the TF1 Group....
  
• Finland
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  Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
   - YLE
• France
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   - France Televisions
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• Germany
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   - ARD
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  ARD , is a joint organization of Germany's regional public-service broadcasters. It was founded in West Germany in 1950 to represent the common interests of the new, decentralized post-war broadcasting services — in particular, the introduction of a joint television network....
   and ZDF
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• Greece
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   - ET1
• Israel
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   - Channel 1
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  Channel 1 is the oldest television channel in Israel and one of only two terrestrial television in the country . Run by the Israel Broadcasting Authority, it started broadcasting on 2 May 1968, and is largely funded through a television licence, though there are some adverts....
  
• Italy
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   - RAI
  Raï
  
  Ra? is a form of traditional music that originated in Oran, Algeria, and then in Oujda from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Music of Spain, Music of France, African music and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to the 1930s and has been primarily evolved by women in the culture....
  
• Latvia
  Latvia
  
  Latvia The Latvians are a Baltic peoples culturally related to the Estonians and Lithuanians, with the Latvian language having many similarities with Lithuanian language, but not with the Estonian language....
   - LTV7
• Lithuania
  Lithuania
  
  Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
   - LTV
  Lithuanian National Radio and Television
  
  Lithuanian National Radio and Television is the national public broadcasting Government-owned corporation of Lithuania. The company operates the two national Public broadcasting Television channel and three national public radio stations....
  
• New Zealand
  New Zealand
  
  New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous Islands of New Zealand, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands....
   - Sky Television
  Sky Television
  
  The name Sky Television may refer to:*British Sky Broadcasting in the United Kingdom as Sky Digital . Formed in 1990 by the 50:50 financial merger of Sky Television plc and British Satellite Broadcasting....
  
• Norway
  Norway
  
  Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
   - NRK
• Philippines
  Philippines
  
  The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
   - NBN
  National Broadcasting Network
  
  National Broadcasting Network, Inc. is television network owned by the Government of the Philippines through People's Television Network, Inc....
  
• Poland
  Poland
  
  Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
   - TVP
  TVP
  
  TVP may stand for:*Textured vegetable protein*Telewizja Polska - Polish public television*Television Personalities - a rock music band* Total Valid Poll - Used to calculate votes....
  
• Portugal
  Portugal
  
  Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
   - RTP2
• Russia
  Russia
  
  Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
   - Sport-RTR
• Serbia
  Serbia
  
  Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country in Central Europe and Balkans Europe, covering the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and the central part of the Balkans....
   - RTS2
  Radio Television of Serbia
  
  Radio Television of Serbia is the public broadcasting in Serbia. It broadcasts and produces a variety of news, drama, and sports programming through radio, television and the Internet....
  
• Slovakia
  Slovakia
  
  Slovakia . It was amended in September 1998 to allow direct election of the president and again in February 2001 due to EU admission requirements....
   - Dvojka
• South Korea
  South Korea
  
  South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea , ), often referred to as Korea and the "names of Korea#Revival of the names", is a Semi-presidential system republic in East Asia, located in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula....
   - KBS
• Spain
  Spain
  
  Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
   - TVE2
• Sweden
  Sweden
  
  Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic countries on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden has land borders with Norway to the west and Finland to the northeast, and it is connected to Denmark by the ?resund Bridge in the south....
   - SVT
  Sveriges Television
  
  Sveriges Television AB is a national television broadcaster based in Sweden, funded by a compulsory fee to be paid by all television owners. The Swedish public broadcasting system is in several respects modeled after the one used in the United Kingdom, and Sveriges Television shares many traits with its British counterpart, the British Broad...
  1
  SVT1
  
  SVT1 is the primary television station of the Sweden public service broadcaster Sveriges Television in Sweden....
  , 2
  SVT2
  
  SVT2, until 1996 TV2, is one of two television channels broadcast by Sveriges Television in Sweden. It was started by Sveriges Radio in 1969 and is complementing the programmes in SVT1....
  , HD
  SVT HD
  
  SVT HD is a high-definition television television channel from Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Television . The channel broadcasts high-definition simulcasts of programmes from the other SVT channels, where available....
  
• Turkey
  Turkey
  
  Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
   - TRT
  Turkish Radio and Television Corporation
  
  The Turkish Radio and Television Corporation also known as TRT, , was founded in 1964, it is the national public broadcasting of Turkey....
  
• United Kingdom
  United Kingdom
  
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
   - BBC
• United States
  United States
  
  The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
   - NBC, Versus
  Versus (TV channel)
  
  Versus is a cable television sports channel owned by Comcast and shown in the United States. It was previously known as OLN until a name change on September 25, 2006....
   and WCSN
• Venezuela
  Venezuela
  
  Venezuela , officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a country on the northern coast of South America.The country comprises a continental mainland and numerous islands located off the Venezuelan coastline in the Caribbean Sea....
   - Meridiano TV

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