A competition in Valencia 2005

60 metres is a sprint event in track and field athletics. It is a championship event for indoor championships, normally dominated by the best outdoor 100 metres runners. At outdoor venues it is a rare distance, at least for senior athletes. The 60 metres was an Olympic event in the 1900 and 1904 Summer Games but was removed from the schedule thereafter.

In the past, it was common for athletes to compete in the 60 yards race. This is not part of the lineage of the 60 metres, but is the predecessor of the 55 metres race.

[edit] Olympic medallists

[edit] Area records

Indoor results only. Updated June 2009.

Area	Men's			Women's
	Time	Athlete	Nation	Time	Athlete	Nation
Africa	6.45[A]	Leonard Myles-Mills	Ghana	7.02	Christy Opara-Thompson Chioma Ajunwa	Nigeria  Nigeria
Asia	6.51	Talal Mansour	Qatar	7.09	Susanthika Jayasinghe	Sri Lanka
Europe	6.42	Dwain Chambers	United Kingdom	6.92	Irina Privalova	Russia
North, Central America and Caribbean	6.39	Maurice Greene	United States	6.95	Gail Devers Marion Jones	United States  United States
Oceania	6.52	Matthew Shirvington	Australia	7.30	Sally McLellan	Australia
South America	6.52	José Carlos Moreira	Brazil	7.26[A]	Esmeralda de Jesús Garcia	Brazil

• ^A  Represents a time set at a high altitude.^[1]

[edit] Top all-time male athletes

Indoor results only. Updated June 2009.

Rank	Res.	Athlete	Nation	Date	Place
1.	6.39	Maurice Greene	United States	3 February 1998	Madrid
2.	6.41	Andre Cason	United States	14 February 1992	Madrid
3.	6.42	Dwain Chambers	United Kingdom	7 March 2009	Turin
4.	6.43	Tim Harden	United States	7 March 1999	Maebashi
5	6.45	Bruny Surin	Canada	13 February 1993	Liévin
		Leonard Myles-Mills	Ghana	20 February 1999	Colorado Springs
		Terrence Trammell	United States	17 February 2001	Pocatello
		Justin Gatlin	United States	1 March 2003	Boston
		Ronald Pognon	France	13 February 2005	Karlsruhe
10	6.46	Jon Drummond	United States	1 February 1998	Stuttgart
		Marcus Brunson	United States	30 January 1999	Flagstaff
		Jason Gardener	United Kingdom	7 March 1999	Maebashi
		Tim Montgomery	United States	11 March 2001	Lisbon
		Leonard Scott	United States	26 February 2005	Liévin
15	6.47	Linford Christie	United Kingdom	19 February 1995	Liévin
		Shawn Crawford	United States	28 February 2004	Boston
		Dwight Phillips	United States	24 February 2005	Madrid
18	6.48	Leroy Burrell	United States	13 February 1991	Madrid
		Deji Aliu	Nigeria	21 February 1999	Liévin
		Morné Nagel	South Africa	27 January 2002	Dortmund
		John Capel	United States	24 February 2003	Fayetteville
22	6.49	Mark McKoy	Canada	6 March 1993	Karlsruhe
		Colin Jackson	United Kingdom	11 March 1994	Paris
		Michael Green	Jamaica	16 February 1997	Liévin
		Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	23 February 1997	Birmingham
		Randall Evans	United States	1 March 1997	Atlanta
		Freddy Mayola	Cuba	16 February 2000	Madrid
		Coby Miller	United States	9 February 2003	Ghent
		Olusoji Fasuba	Nigeria	3 February 2007	Stuttgart

[edit] Top all-time female athletes

Updated June 2009.

Rank	Res.	Athlete	Nation	Date	Place
1.	6.92	Irina Privalova	Russia	11 February 1993	Madrid
2	6.95	Gail Devers	United States	12 March 1993	Toronto
		Marion Jones	United States	7 March 1998	Maebashi
4	6.96	Merlene Ottey	Jamaica	14 February 1992	Madrid
		Ekaterini Thanou	Greece	7 March 1999	Maebashi
6.	7.00	Nelli Cooman	Netherlands	23 February 1986	Madrid
7	7.01	Savatheda Fynes	Bahamas	7 March 1999	Maebashi
		Me'Lisa Barber	United States	10 March 2006	Moscow
		Lauryn Williams	United States	10 March 2006	Moscow
10	7.02	Gwen Torrence	United States	2 February 1996	New York
		Christy Opara-Thompson	Nigeria	12 February 1997	Ghent
		Chioma Ajunwa	Nigeria	22 February 1998	Liévin
		Philomena Mensah	Canada	7 March 1999	Maebashi
14	7.03	Anelia Nuneva	Bulgaria	22 February 1987	Liévin
		Inger Miller	United States	7 March 1999	Maebashi
16	7.04	Marita Koch	East Germany	16 February 1987	Senftenberg
		Silke Gladisch	East Germany	6 March 1988	Budapest
		Carlette Guidry	United States	4 March 1995	Atlanta
		Petya Pendareva	Bulgaria	11 March 2001	Lisbon
		Zhanna Block	Ukraine	14 March 2003	Birmingham
		Mariya Bolikova	Russia	4 February 2006	Samara
		Veronica Campbell-Brown	Jamaica	10 February 2006	Fayetteville
23	7.06	Katrin Krabbe	Germany	16 February 1991	Dortmund
		Natalya Voronova	Russia	26 January 1993	Moscow
		Olga Bogoslovskaya	Russia	26 February 1994	Lipetsk
		Yuliya Tabakova	Russia	17 February 2004	Moscow
		Christine Arron	France	26 February 2006	Aubière
		Angela Williams	United States	7 March 2008	Valencia

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• All-time men's indoors best 60 metres from alltime-athletics.com