1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres

The men's 60 metres event at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 7.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Charalambos Papadias   Greece	Michael Green   Jamaica	Davidson Ezinwa   Nigeria

Results

Heats

The winner of each heat (Q) and next 8 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Charalambos Papadias	Greece	6.55	Q
2	4	Jason Gardener	Great Britain	6.56	Q, SB
2	7	Bruny Surin	Canada	6.56	Q
4	4	Eric Nkansah	Ghana	6.58	q, PB
4	5	Angelos Pavlakakis	Greece	6.58	Q, PB
4	6	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	6.58	Q
4	7	Patrik Lövgren	Sweden	6.58	q, =NR
4	8	Tim Montgomery	United States	6.58	Q
9	1	Davidson Ezinwa	Nigeria	6.59	Q
9	10	Deji Aliu	Nigeria	6.59	Q
11	2	Kostya Rurak	Ukraine	6.60	Q, PB
12	2	Robert Esmie	Canada	6.61	q
12	9	Michael Green	Jamaica	6.61	Q
14	6	Fernando Ramirez	Norway	6.63	q
15	3	Yiannis Zisimides	Cyprus	6.64	q
16	1	Renward Wells	Bahamas	6.65	q, NR
17	4	Randall Evans	United States	6.66	q
18	2	Chen Wenzhong	China	6.67	q
18	10	Marc Blume	Germany	6.67
20	3	Stéphane Cali	France	6.69
20	5	Jean-Olivier Zirignon	Ivory Coast	6.69	PB
22	1	Jason Livingston	Great Britain	6.70
22	9	André da Silva	Brazil	6.70
24	8	Ibrahim Meité	Ivory Coast	6.71
25	8	Koji Ito	Japan	6.71
26	1	Alex Menal	France	6.72
27	5	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	6.73
27	6	Augustine Nketia	New Zealand	6.73
27	9	Frutos Feo	Spain	6.73
30	2	Giovanni Puggioni	Italy	6.75
30	4	Ivan Šlehobr	Czech Republic	6.75
32	10	Gábor Dobos	Hungary	6.76
33	7	Ivo Krsek	Czech Republic	6.77
34	1	Watson Nyambek	Malaysia	6.80
34	7	Hideki Onohara	Japan	6.80
36	2	Issa-Aimé Nthépé	Cameroon	6.82
36	3	Miklós Gyulai	Hungary	6.82
38	6	José Illán	Spain	6.84
39	6	Jorge Polanco	Argentina	6.85
40	10	Dinçer Ersoy	Turkey	6.86
41	4	Miguel Janssen	Aruba	6.87
42	6	Patrick Mocci-Raoumbé	Gabon	6.88
42	10	Arnaldo Silva	Brazil	6.88
42	10	Peter Pulu	Papua New Guinea	6.88
45	3	Hamed Habib	Kuwait	6.92
46	2	Pascal Dangbo	Benin	6.94
47	7	Theodore Haba	Guinea	6.95
47	8	Francis Keita	Sierra Leone	6.95
49	5	Gabriel Simón	Argentina	6.96
50	8	Mario Bonello	Malta	6.97	NR
51	9	Valentin Ngbogo	Central African Republic	7.04
	8	Kouty Mawenh	Liberia	DNF
	9	Ousmane Diarra	Mali	DNF
	1	Norberto Nsue Ondo	Equatorial Guinea	DNS
	5	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	DNS

Semifinals

First 2 of each semifinal (Q) qualified directly for the final.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Bruny Surin	Canada	6.50	Q, SB
2	3	Michael Green	Jamaica	6.50	Q
3	1	Charalambos Papadias	Greece	6.53	Q
4	1	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	6.54	Q
5	1	Robert Esmie	Canada	6.54	PB
6	1	Eric Nkansah	Ghana	6.57	PB
6	2	Davidson Ezinwa	Nigeria	6.57	Q
6	3	Tim Montgomery	United States	6.57
9	2	Patrik Lövgren	Sweden	6.58	Q, =NR
10	2	Angelos Pavlakakis	Greece	6.61
11	2	Jason Gardener	Great Britain	6.62
12	2	Randall Evans	United States	6.63
13	3	Kostya Rurak	Ukraine	6.65
14	3	Renward Wells	Bahamas	6.65	=NR
15	1	Chen Wenzhong	China	6.67
16	3	Yiannis Zisimides	Cyprus	6.73
17	2	Fernando Ramirez	Norway	6.74
	1	Deji Aliu	Nigeria	DQ

Final

^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Charalambos Papadias	Greece	6.50	NR
	2	Michael Green	Jamaica	6.51
	4	Davidson Ezinwa	Nigeria	6.52	PB
4	1	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	6.55
5	3	Bruny Surin	Canada	6.57
6	6	Patrik Lövgren	Sweden	6.61

References

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