2007 in Sports - Athletics

Athletics

• August–September – 2007 World Championships in Athletics held at Nagai Stadium in Osaka
• September 9 – sprinter Asafa Powell of Jamaica breaks the previous record set by himself at the 100 metres sprint (9.77 seconds) and sets a new world record of 9.74
• September 30 – Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia sets new world marathon record time of 2:04:26 at Berlin