60 metres hurdles

60 metres hurdles is a distance in hurdling which is generally run in indoor competitions. It is equivalent with the first 5 hurdles of a standard outdoor hurdle race. The current women's and men's world records are 7.65 seconds (Devynne Charlton) and 7.27 seconds (Grant Holloway), respectively.

Athletics 60 metres hurdles
Athletes running the 60m hurdles at the BW Bank Meeting in Karlsruhe, 2010
World records
Men	Grant Holloway 7.27 A (2024)
Women	Devynne Charlton 7.65 (2024)
World Indoor Championship records
Men	Grant Holloway 7.29 (2022, 2024)
Women	Devynne Charlton 7.65 (2024)

Area records

Updated March 2025.^[1]

Area	Men			Women
	Time	Athlete	Nation	Time	Athlete	Nation
Africa	7.52	Shaun Bownes	South Africa	7.75	Tobi Amusan	Nigeria
Asia	7.41	Liu Xiang	China	7.82	Olga Shishigina	Kazakhstan
Europe	7.30	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	7.67	Ditaji Kambundji	Switzerland
North, Central America and Caribbean	7.27 A	Grant Holloway	United States	7.65	Devynne Charlton	Bahamas
Oceania	7.73	Kyle Vander-Kuyp	Australia	7.73	Sally Pearson	Australia
South America	7.60	Márcio de Souza Gabriel Constantino	Brazil	7.91	Yvette Lewis	Panama

All-time top 25

Indoor results only

Tables show data for two definitions of "Top 25" - the top 25 60m hurdles times and the top 25 athletes:

- denotes top performance for athletes in the top 25 60m hurdles times

- denotes lesser performances, still in the top 25 60m hurdles times, by repeat athletes

- denotes top performance (only) for other top 25 athletes who fall outside the top 25 60m hurdles times

Men

• Updated February 2025.^[2][3]

Ath.#	Perf.#	Time (s)	Athlete	Nation	Date	Place	Ref.
1	1	7.27 A	Grant Holloway	United States	16 February 2024	Albuquerque	[4]
	2	7.29	Holloway #2		24 February 2021	Madrid	[5]
			Holloway #3		20 March 2022	Belgrade	[6]
			Holloway #4		2 March 2024	Glasgow	[7]
2	5	7.30	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	6 March 1994	Sindelfingen
	6	7.32	Holloway #5		9 February 2021	Liévin
			Holloway #6		24 February 2021	Madrid
			Holloway #7		10 February 2024	Liévin	[8]
			Holloway #8		2 March 2024	Glasgow	[9]
3	10	7.33	Dayron Robles	Cuba	8 February 2008	Düsseldorf
	11	7.34	Robles #2		14 March 2010	Doha
	12	7.35	Holloway #9		9 March 2019	Birmingham
			Holloway #10		24 January 2021	Fayetteville
			Holloway #11		17 February 2022	Liévin
			Holloway #12		25 February 2023	Birmingham	[10]
			Holloway #13		4 February 2024	Boston	[11]
4	17	7.36	Greg Foster	United States	16 January 1987	Los Angeles
	17	7.36	Jackson #2		12 February 1994	Glasgow
4	17	7.36	Allen Johnson	United States	6 March 2004	Budapest
	17	7.36	Robles #3		2 February 2008	Stuttgart
4	17	7.36	Terrence Trammell	United States	14 March 2010	Doha
	17	7.36	Holloway #14		13 February 2025	Liévin	[12]
			Holloway #15		22 February 2025	New York City	[13]
7	24	7.37	Roger Kingdom	United States	8 March 1989	Piraeus
			Anier García	Cuba	9 February 2000	Piraeus
			Tony Dees	United States	18 February 2000	Chemnitz
	24	7.37	Trammell #2		1 March 2009	Boston
7	24	7.37	David Oliver	United States	5 February 2011	Stuttgart
	24	7.37	Holloway #16		6 February 2022	New York City
			Holloway #17		27 February 2022	Spokane
			Holloway #18		4 February 2024	Boston
11		7.38	Mark Crear	United States	8 March 1998	Sindelfingen
			Reggie Torian	United States	27 February 1999	Atlanta
			Trey Cunningham	United States	12 March 2022	Birmingham	[14]
			Dylan Beard	United States	8 February 2025	New York City	[15]
15		7.39	Daniel Roberts	United States	22 February 2023	Madrid	[16]
			Jakub Szymański	Poland	8 February 2025	Łódź	[17]
17		7.40 A	Dexter Faulk	United States	25 February 2012	Albuquerque
		7.40	Yoel Hernández	Cuba	16 February 2000	Madrid
19		7.41	Mark McKoy	Canada	14 March 1993	Toronto
			Courtney Hawkins	United States	12 March 1995	Barcelona
			Falk Balzer	Germany	29 January 1999	Chemnitz
			Liu Xiang	China	18 February 2012	Birmingham
			Dimitri Bascou	France	13 February 2016	Berlin
			Omar McLeod	Jamaica	20 March 2016	Portland
			Jason Joseph	Switzerland	5 March 2023	Istanbul	[18]

Women

• Updated March 2025.^[19][20]

Ath.#	Perf.#	Time (s)	Athlete	Nation	Date	Place	Ref.
1	1	7.65	Devynne Charlton	Bahamas	3 March 2024	Glasgow	[21]
	2	7.67	Charlton #2		11 February 2024	New York City	[22]
2	2	7.67 A	Tia Jones	United States	16 February 2024	Albuquerque	[23]
		7.67	Ditaji Kambundji	Switzerland	7 March 2025	Apeldoorn	[24]
4	5	7.68	Susanna Kallur	Sweden	10 February 2008	Karlsruhe
	5	7.68 A	T. Jones #2		16 February 2024	Albuquerque	[23]
		7.68	Charlton #3		23 February 2024	Madrid	[25]
5	8	7.69	Ludmila Narozhilenko	Soviet Union	4 February 1990	Chelyabinsk
	9	7.70	Narozhilenko #2		11 February 1993	Madrid
6	9	7.70 A	Sharika Nelvis	United States	18 February 2018	Albuquerque	[26]
		7.70	Kendra Harrison	United States	3 March 2018	Birmingham	[27]
	12	7.71	Narozhilenko #3		4 February 1990	Chelyabinsk
	13	7.72	Kallur #2		2 February 2008	Stuttgart
8	13	7.72	Lolo Jones	United States	13 March 2010	Doha
	13	7.72	Harrison #2		9 February 2018	Clemson
		7.72 A	Harrison #3		18 February 2018	Albuquerque	[26]
8	13	7.72 A	Ackera Nugent	Jamaica	10 March 2023	Albuquerque	[28]
	13	7.72	T. Jones #3		4 February 2024	Boston	[29]
			Charlton #4		3 March 2024	Glasgow	[30]
8	13	7.72	Nadine Visser	Netherlands	7 March 2025	Apeldoorn	[31]
			Grace Stark	United States	23 March 2025	Nanjing	[32]
	13	7.72	Charlton #5		23 March 2025	Nanjing	[33]
12	23	7.73	Cornelia Oschkenat	East Germany	25 February 1989	Vienna
			Sally Pearson	Australia	10 March 2012	Istanbul
		7.73 A	Christina Manning	United States	18 February 2018	Albuquerque	[26]
	23	7.73 A	Nugent #2		11 March 2023	Albuquerque	[34]
15	23	7.73	Cyréna Samba-Mayela	France	3 March 2024	Glasgow	[35]
	23	7.73	Stark #2		23 March 2025	Nanjing	[36]
			Kambundji #2		23 March 2025	Nanjing	[37]
16		7.74	Yordanka Donkova	Bulgaria	14 February 1987	Sofia
			Michelle Freeman	Jamaica	3 February 1998	Madrid
			Gail Devers	United States	1 March 2003	Boston
			Masai Russell	United States	22 February 2025	New York City	[38]
			Pia Skrzyszowska	Poland	23 March 2025	Nanjing	[39]
21		7.75	Bettine Jahn	East Germany	5 March 1983	Budapest
			Perdita Felicien	Canada	7 March 2004	Budapest
			Danielle Williams	Jamaica	11 February 2022	Clemson	[40]
			Tobi Amusan	Nigeria	4 February 2024	Boston	[29]
25		7.76	Gloria Siebert	East Germany	5 February 1988	Sindelfingen
			Brianna Rollins	United States	12 March 2016	Portland
			Laëticia Bapté	France	22 February 2025	Miramas	[41]

World Indoor Championships medalists

Men

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1985 Paris[A] details	Stéphane Caristan (FRA)	Javier Moracho (ESP)	Jon Ridgeon (GBR)
1987 Indianapolis details	Tonie Campbell (USA)	Stéphane Caristan (FRA)	Nigel Walker (GBR)
1989 Budapest details	Roger Kingdom (USA)	Colin Jackson (GBR)	Igors Kazanovs (URS)
1991 Seville details	Greg Foster (USA)	Igors Kazanovs (URS)	Mark McKoy (CAN)
1993 Toronto details	Mark McKoy (CAN)	Colin Jackson (GBR)	Tony Dees (USA)
1995 Barcelona details	Allen Johnson (USA)	Courtney Hawkins (USA)	Tony Jarrett (GBR)
1997 Paris details	Anier García (CUB)	Colin Jackson (GBR)	Tony Dees (USA)
1999 Maebashi details	Colin Jackson (GBR)	Reggie Torian (USA)	Falk Balzer (GER)
2001 Lisbon details	Terrence Trammell (USA)	Anier García (CUB)	Shaun Bownes (RSA)
2003 Birmingham details	Allen Johnson (USA)	Anier García (CUB)	Liu Xiang (CHN)
2004 Budapest details	Allen Johnson (USA)	Liu Xiang (CHN)	Maurice Wignall (JAM)
2006 Moscow details	Terrence Trammell (USA)	Dayron Robles (CUB)	Dominique Arnold (USA)
2008 Valencia details	Liu Xiang (CHN)	Allen Johnson (USA)	Evgeniy Borisov (RUS)  Staņislavs Olijars (LAT)
2010 Doha details	Dayron Robles (CUB)	Terrence Trammell (USA)	David Oliver (USA)
2012 Istanbul details	Aries Merritt (USA)	Liu Xiang (CHN)	Pascal Martinot-Lagarde (FRA)
2014 Sopot details	Omo Osaghae (USA)	Pascal Martinot-Lagarde (FRA)	Garfield Darien (FRA)
2016 Portland details	Omar McLeod (JAM)	Pascal Martinot-Lagarde (FRA)	Dimitri Bascou (FRA)
2018 Birmingham details	Andrew Pozzi (GBR)	Jarret Eaton (USA)	Aurel Manga (FRA)
2022 Belgrade details	Grant Holloway (USA)	Pascal Martinot-Lagarde (FRA)	Jarret Eaton (USA)
2024 Glasgow details	Grant Holloway (USA)	Lorenzo Simonelli (ITA)	Just Kwaou-Mathey (FRA)
2025 Nanjing details	Grant Holloway (USA)	Wilhem Belocian (FRA)	Liu Junxi (CHN)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	13	5	5	23
2	Great Britain (GBR)	2	3	3	8
3	Cuba (CUB)	2	3	0	5
4	France (FRA)	1	5	5	11
5	China (CHN)	1	2	3	6
6	Canada (CAN)	1	0	1	2
	Jamaica (JAM)	1	0	1	2
8	Soviet Union (URS)	0	1	1	2
9	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
11	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1
	Latvia (LAT)	0	0	1	1
	Russia (RUS)	0	0	1	1
	South Africa (RSA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		21	21	23	65

Women

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1985 Paris[A] details	Xénia Siska (HUN)	Laurence Elloy (FRA)	Anne Piquereau (FRA)
1987 Indianapolis details	Cornelia Oschkenat (GDR)	Yordanka Donkova (BUL)	Ginka Zagorcheva (BUL)
1989 Budapest details	Yelizaveta Chernyshova (URS)	Ludmila Narozhilenko (URS)	Cornelia Oschkenat (GDR)
1991 Seville details	Ludmila Narozhilenko (URS)	Monique Ewanje (FRA)	Aliuska López (CUB)
1993 Toronto details	Julie Baumann (SUI)	LaVonna Martin (USA)	Patricia Girard-Léno (FRA)
1995 Barcelona details	Aliuska López (CUB)	Olga Shishigina (KAZ)	Brigita Bukovec (SLO)
1997 Paris details	Michelle Freeman (JAM)	Gillian Russell (JAM)	Cheryl Dickey (USA)
1999 Maebashi details	Olga Shishigina (KAZ)	Glory Alozie (NGR)	Keturah Anderson (CAN)
2001 Lisbon details	Anjanette Kirkland (USA)	Michelle Freeman (JAM)	Nicole Ramalalanirina (FRA)
2003 Birmingham details	Gail Devers (USA)	Glory Alozie (ESP)	Melissa Morrison (USA)
2004 Budapest details	Perdita Felicien (CAN)	Gail Devers (USA)	Linda Ferga-Khodadin (FRA)
2006 Moscow details	Derval O'Rourke (IRL)	Glory Alozie (ESP)	Susanna Kallur (SWE)
2008 Valencia details	Lolo Jones (USA)	Candice Davis (USA)	Anay Tejeda (RUS)
2010 Doha details	Lolo Jones (USA)	Perdita Felicien (CAN)	Priscilla Lopes-Schliep (CAN)
2012 Istanbul details	Sally Pearson (AUS)	Tiffany Porter (GBR)	Alina Talay (BLR)
2014 Sopot details	Nia Ali (USA)	Sally Pearson (AUS)	Tiffany Porter (GBR)
2016 Portland details	Nia Ali (USA)	Brianna Rollins (USA)	Tiffany Porter (GBR)
2018 Birmingham details	Kendra Harrison (USA)	Christina Manning (USA)	Nadine Visser (NED)
2022 Belgrade details	Cyréna Samba-Mayela (FRA)	Devynne Charlton (BAH)	Gabriele Cunningham (USA)
2024 Glasgow details	Devynne Charlton (BAH)	Cyréna Samba-Mayela (FRA)	Pia Skrzyszowska (POL)
2025 Nanjing details	Devynne Charlton (BAH)	Ditaji Kambundji (SUI)	Ackera Nugent (JAM)

• ^A Known as the World Indoor Games

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	7	5	3	15
2	Bahamas (BAH)	2	1	0	3
	Soviet Union (URS)	2	1	0	3
4	France (FRA)	1	3	4	8
5	Jamaica (JAM)	1	2	1	4
6	Canada (CAN)	1	1	2	4
7	Australia (AUS)	1	1	0	2
	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	1	0	2
	Switzerland (SUI)	1	1	0	2
10	Cuba (CUB)	1	0	1	2
	East Germany (GDR)	1	0	1	2
12	Hungary (HUN)	1	0	0	1
	Ireland (IRL)	1	0	0	1
14	Spain (ESP)	0	2	0	2
15	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	2	3
16	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	1	2
17	Nigeria (NGR)	0	1	0	1
18	Belarus (BLR)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Russia (RUS)	0	0	1	1
	Slovenia (SLO)	0	0	1	1
	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (23 entries)		21	21	21	63

Season's bests

Men

Year	Time	Athlete	Place
1973	7.69	Frank Siebeck (GDR)	Rotterdam
1974	7.66	Anatoliy Moshiashvili (URS)	Gothenburg
1975	7.66	Frank Siebeck (GDR)	Katowice
1976	7.66	Larry Shipp (USA)	Leningrad
1977	7.62	Thomas Munkelt (GDR)	San Sebastián
1978	7.62	Thomas Munkelt (GDR)	Milan
1979	7.59	Thomas Munkelt (GDR)	Vienna
1980	7.54	Yuriy Chervanyev (URS)	Sindelfingen
1981	7.69	Guy Drut (FRA)	Turin
1982	7.61	Andrey Prokofyev (URS)	Moscow
1983	7.48	Thomas Munkelt (GDR)	Budapest
1984	7.58	Tonie Campbell (USA)	Cosford
1985	7.58	Igor Kazanov (URS)	Chişinău
1986	7.47	Mark McKoy (CAN)	Tokyo
1987	7.36	Greg Foster (USA)	Los Angeles
1988	7.47	Mark McKoy (CAN)	Genova
1989	7.37	Roger Kingdom (USA)	Athens
1990	7.43	Colin Jackson (GBR)	Cosford
1991	7.42	Greg Foster (USA)	San Sebastián
		Roger Kingdom (USA)	San Sebastián
1992	7.42	Colin Jackson (GBR)	Glasgow
1993	7.41	Mark McKoy (CAN)	Toronto
1994	7.30	Colin Jackson (GBR)	Sindelfingen
1995	7.38	Allen Johnson (USA)	Karlsruhe
1996	7.46	Courtney Hawkins (USA)	Atlanta
1997	7.46	Colin Jackson (GBR)	Stuttgart
1998	7.38	Mark Crear (USA)	Sindelfingen
1999	7.38	Reggie Torian (USA)	Atlanta
		Colin Jackson (GBR)	Maebashi
2000	7.37	Anier García (CUB)	Athens
		Tony Dees (USA)	Chemnitz
2001	7.47	Terrence Trammell (USA)	New York City
2002	7.40	Colin Jackson (GBR)	Vienna
2003	7.39	Allen Johnson (USA)	Boston
2004	7.36	Allen Johnson (USA)	Budapest
2005	7.42	Ladji Doucouré (FRA)	Liévin
2006	7.43	Terrence Trammell (USA)	Moscow
2007	7.38	Dayron Robles (CUB)	Stuttgart
2008	7.33	Dayron Robles (CUB)	Düsseldorf
2009	7.37	Terrence Trammell (USA)	Boston
2010	7.34	Dayron Robles (CUB)	Doha
2011	7.37	David Oliver (USA)	Stuttgart
2012	7.40 A	Dexter Faulk (USA)	Albuquerque
2013	7.49	Sergey Shubenkov (RUS)	Gothenburg
2014	7.45	Pascal Martinot-Lagarde (FRA)	Mondeville
		Omoghan Osaghae (USA)	Sopot
2015	7.45	Orlando Ortega (CUB)	Łódź
		Omar McLeod (JAM)	Fayetteville
2016	7.41	Dimitri Bascou (FRA)	Berlin
		Omar McLeod (JAM)	Portland
2017	7.43	Andy Pozzi (GBR)	Birmingham
2018	7.42	Grant Holloway (USA)	Clemson
2019	7.35	Grant Holloway (USA)	Birmingham
2020	7.38	Grant Holloway (USA)	Clemson
2021	7.29	Grant Holloway (USA)	Madrid
2022	7.29	Grant Holloway (USA)	Belgrade
2023	7.35	Grant Holloway (USA)	Birmingham
2024	7.27 A	Grant Holloway (USA)	Albuquerque
2025	7.36	Grant Holloway (USA)	Liévin
			New York City

Women

Year	Time	Athlete	Place
1973	8.02	Anneliese Ehrhardt (GDR)	Rotterdam
1974	7.90	Anneliese Ehrhardt (GDR)	Gothenburg
1975	8.04	Grażyna Rabsztyn (POL)	Katowice
1976	7.96	Grażyna Rabsztyn (POL)	Munich
1977	8.31	Zofia Bielczyk (POL)	San Sebastián
1978	7.94	Johanna Klier (GDR)	Milan
1979	7.86	Grażyna Rabsztyn (POL)	Zabrze
1980	7.77	Zofia Bielczyk (POL)	Sindelfingen
1981	8.08	Tatyana Anisimova (URS)	Minsk
1982	7.97	Kerstin Knabe (GDR)	Senftenberg
1983	7.75	Bettine Jahn (GDR)	Budapest
1984	7.90	Lucyna Langer-Kalek (POL)	Warsaw
			Stuttgart
1985	7.90	Cornelia Oschkenat (GDR)	Athens
1986	7.79	Cornelia Oschkenat (GDR)	Madrid
1987	7.74	Yordanka Donkova (BUL)	Sofia
1988	7.76	Gloria Siebert (GDR)	Sindelfingen
1989	7.73	Cornelia Oschkenat (GDR)	Vienna
1990	7.69	Ludmila Narozhilenko (URS)	Chelyabinsk
1991	7.82	Ludmila Narozhilenko (URS)	Liévin
		Monique Éwanjé-Épée (FRA)	Paris
1992	7.76	Ludmila Narozhilenko (RUS)	Madrid
1993	7.70	Ludmila Narozhilenko (RUS)	Madrid
1994	7.83	Yordanka Donkova (BUL)	Liévin
1995	7.84	Patricia Girard (FRA)	Liévin
1996	7.80	Brigita Bukovec (SLO)	Liévin
1997	7.77	Michelle Freeman (JAM)	Liévin
1998	7.74	Michelle Freeman (JAM)	Madrid
1999	7.78	Brigita Bukovec (SLO)	Stuttgart
2000	7.78	Michelle Freeman (JAM)	Liévin
2001	7.83	Michelle Freeman (JAM)	Liévin
2002	7.84[a]	Glory Alozie (ESP)	Vienna
2003	7.74	Gail Devers (USA)	Boston
2004	7.75	Perdita Felicien (CAN)	Budapest
2005	7.80	Susanna Kallur (SWE)	Madrid
2006	7.83	Lacena Golding-Clarke (JAM)	Leipzig
2007	7.84	Susanna Kallur (SWE)	Birmingham
2008	7.68	Susanna Kallur (SWE)	Karlsruhe
2009	7.82	Lolo Jones (USA)	Karlsruhe
			Birmingham
2010	7.72	Lolo Jones (USA)	Doha
2011	7.79 A	Kellie Wells (USA)	Albuquerque
2012	7.73	Sally Pearson (AUS)	Istanbul
2013	7.78	Brianna Rollins (USA)	Clemson
2014	7.79	Sally Pearson (AUS)	Berlin
			Sopot
2015	7.83	Sharika Nelvis (USA)	Malmö
2016	7.76	Brianna Rollins (USA)	Portland
2017	7.74 A	Kendra Harrison (USA)	Albuquerque
2018	7.70 A	Sharika Nelvis (USA)	Albuquerque
	7.70	Kendra Harrison (USA)	Birmingham
2019	7.85	Sharika Nelvis (USA)	New York
2020	7.80	Kendra Harrison (USA)	Clemson
2021	7.77	Nadine Visser (NED)	Toruń
2022	7.75	Danielle Williams (JAM)	Belgrade
2023	7.72 A	Ackera Nugent (JAM)	Albuquerque
2024	7.65	Devynne Charlton (BAH)	Glasgow
2025	7.67	Ditaji Kambundji (SUI)	Apeldoorn

Notes

1. This performance was at the European Indoor Championships. Alozie represented Spain having recently switched allegiance from Nigeria. She was subsequently disqualified as the required transfer formalities had not been properly completed. This fact does not affect the statistical validity of the performance.