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The 2007 IAAF / VTB Bank World Athletics Final, Stuttgart, Germany which will be celebrated on the weekend of the 22-23 September 2007 look set to weigh-in with an awesome array of medallists from the recent 11th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, Osaka, Japan.

MEN

(15 gold, 14 silver, 14 bronze = 43 medals)

Osaka medallists currently qualified as @ midday 11 Sep:

100m – Derrick Atkins (s), Asafa Powell (b)
200m – Usain Bolt (s), Wallace Spearmon (b)
400m – Jeremy Wariner (g), LaShawn Merritt (s), Angelo Taylor (b)
800m – Yuriy Borzakovskiy (b)
1500m – Bernard Lagat (g), Shadrack Korir (b)
5000m – Bernard Lagat (g) - qualified for 1500m -, Eliud Kipchoge (s), Moses Kipsiro (b) - qualified for 3000m
10,000m (Not contested at WAF) – Kenenisa Bekele (g) - qualified for the 3000m -, Sileshi Sihine (s) - qualified for 5000m
3000m Steeplechase – Brimin Kipruto (g), Ezekiel Kemboi (s)
110m Hurdles – Liu Xiang (g), Terrence Trammell (s), David Payne (b)
400m Hurdles – Kerron Clement (g), Felix Sanchez (s)
HJ – Donald Thomas (g), Kyriakos Ioannou (b)
PV – Brad Walker (g), Danny Ecker (b)
LJ – Irving Saladino (g), Andrew Howe (s)
TJ – Nelson Evora (g), Jadel Gregorio (s), Walter Davis (b)
SP – Reese Hoffa (g), Adam Nelson (s), Andrey Mikhnevich (b)
DT – Gerd Kanter (g), Robert Harting (s), Rutger Smith (b) - qualified for SP
HT – Ivan Tikhon (g), Primoz Kozmus (s), Libor Charfreitag (b)
JT – Tero Pitkämäki (g), Andreas Thorkildsen (s), Breaux Greer (b)


Women

(16 gold, 10 silver, 11 bronze = 37 medals)

Osaka medallists currently qualified as @ midday 11 Sep:

100m – Veronica Campbell (g) - qualified for the 200m -, Lauryn Williams (s), Carmelita Jeter (b)
200m – Allyson Felix (g) - qualified for the 100m -, Veronica Campbell (s),
400m – Novlene Williams (b)
800m – Janeth Jepkosgei (g), Mayte Martinez (b)
1500m – Maryam Yusuf Jamal (g), Yelena Soboleva (s), Iryna Lishchynska (b)
5000m – Meseret Defar (g), Vivian Cheruiyot (s) - qualified for the 3000m -, Prisca Jepleting (b)
10,000m (Not contested at WAF) - Tirunesh Dibaba (g) - qualified for 5000m
3000m Steeplechase – Eunice Jepkorir (b)
110m Hurdles – Michelle Perry (g), Perdita Felicien (s), Delloreen Ennis-London (b)
400m Hurdles – Jana Rawlinson (g), Anna Jesien (b)
HJ – Blank Vlasic (g), Antonietta Di Martino (=s)
PV – Yelena Isinbayeva (g), Katerina Badurova (s), Svetlana Feofanova (b)
LJ – Tatyana Lededeva (g)
TJ – Yargelis Savigne (g), Tatyana Lededeva (s)
SP – Nadine Kleinert (b)
DT – Franka Dietzsch (g)
HT – Betty Heidler (g), Yipsi Moreno (s)
JT – Barbora Spotakova (g), Christina Obergföll (s), Steffi Nerius (b)
Hep (Not contested at WAF) – Carolina Klüft (g) - qualified for LJ