1991 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres

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
	2	Dominique Canti	San Marino	DNS
	5	Félix Molina	Puerto Rico	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
	5	Andre Cason	United States	6.54
	3	Linford Christie	Great Britain	6.55
	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