1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres

Events at the 1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships
Track events
60 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m		men		women
60 m hurdles		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
3000 m walk				women
5000 m walk		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women

The men's 60 metres event at the 1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on 8 March.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Andre Cason  United States	Linford Christie  Great Britain	Chidi Imoh  Nigeria

Results

Heats

First 2 of each heat (Q) and next 12 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Andre Cason	United States	6.52	Q, PB
2	6	Linford Christie	Great Britain	6.61	Q
3	5	Joel Isasi	Cuba	6.63	Q, PB
4	6	Bruny Surin	Canada	6.64	Q
5	3	Andrés Simón	Cuba	6.65	Q
6	2	Vitaliy Savin	Soviet Union	6.68	Q
7	4	Chidi Imoh	Nigeria	6.69	Q
8	5	Charles-Louis Seck	Senegal	6.70	q
9	2	Andreas Berger	Austria	6.71	Q
9	3	Jean-Olivier Zirignon	Ivory Coast	6.71	Q
11	3	Sanusi Turay	Sierra Leone	6.73	q, NR
11	6	Franz Ratzenberger	Austria	6.73	q
13	1	Michael Rosswess	Great Britain	6.74	Q
13	2	Cengiz Kavaklıoğlu	Turkey	6.74	q, NR
13	3	Florencio Gascón	Spain	6.74	q
16	1	Ben Johnson	Canada	6.75	Q
17	1	Antonio Ullo	Italy	6.76	q
17	1	Luis Turón	Spain	6.76	q
17	6	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	6.76	q
17	6	Samuel Nchinda	Cameroon	6.76	q, NR
21	2	Dietmar Schulte	Germany	6.77	q
21	4	Michael Huke	Germany	6.77	Q
23	4	Eric Akogyiram	Ghana	6.80	q
24	4	Jiří Valík	Czechoslovakia	6.81	q
25	3	Abdullahi Tetengi	Nigeria	6.85
25	5	Arnaldo da Silva	Brazil	6.85
27	4	Carlos Moreno	Chile	6.86	NR
28	1	Einar Þór Einarsson	Iceland	6.91	NR
29	3	Fernando Botasso	Brazil	6.93
30	1	Lai Cheng-chuan	Chinese Taipei	6.95
31	3	Clinton Bufuku	Zambia	6.96	NR
32	1	Laurent Kemp	Luxembourg	6.97	NR
33	2	Amadou Mbaye	Senegal	6.98
34	6	Dudley den Dulk	Netherlands Antilles	7.01
35	4	Carlos García	Dominican Republic	7.11
36	4	Rodney Cox	Turks and Caicos Islands	7.11	NR
37	2	Guillermo Saucedo	Bolivia	7.20
38	5	António Afonso Deslandes	Angola	7.23
39	6	Trevor Davis	Anguilla	7.24
40	2	Dominique Canti	San Marino	9.99 !DNS
40	5	Félix Molina	Puerto Rico	9.99 !DNS

Semifinals

First 2 of each semifinal (Q) and next two fastest (q) qualified for the final.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Andre Cason	United States	6.55	Q
2	2	Linford Christie	Great Britain	6.56	Q
3	2	Chidi Imoh	Nigeria	6.60	Q
3	3	Andrés Simón	Cuba	6.60	Q
5	3	Bruny Surin	Canada	6.61	Q, =PB
6	1	Joel Isasi	Cuba	6.63	Q, =PB
7	2	Ben Johnson	Canada	6.63	q
8	3	Vitaliy Savin	Soviet Union	6.66	q
9	1	Michael Rosswess	Great Britain	6.68
9	2	Andreas Berger	Austria	6.68
11	2	Luis Turón	Spain	6.69	PB
11	3	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	6.69
13	1	Florencio Gascón	Spain	6.75
13	2	Dietmar Schulte	Germany	6.75
15	1	Charles-Louis Seck	Senegal	6.76
16	2	Sanusi Turay	Sierra Leone	6.76
16	3	Franz Ratzenberger	Austria	6.76
18	1	Eric Akogyiram	Ghana	6.77
18	2	Antonio Ullo	Italy	6.77
20	1	Jiří Valík	Czechoslovakia	6.79
21	3	Jean-Olivier Zirignon	Ivory Coast	6.80
22	3	Samuel Nchinda	Cameroon	6.83
23	3	Cengiz Kavaklıoğlu	Turkey	6.84
24	1	Michael Huke	Germany	6.94

Final

^[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	5	Andre Cason	United States	6.54
02 !	3	Linford Christie	Great Britain	6.55
03 !	6	Chidi Imoh	Nigeria	6.60
4	2	Ben Johnson	Canada	6.61	F1
5	4	Andrés Simón	Cuba	6.61
6	1	Joel Isasi	Cuba	6.64
7	8	Vitaliy Savin	Soviet Union	6.66
8	7	Bruny Surin	Canada	6.66

References