1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres
# 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres

The women's 60 metres event at the 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 7.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - |
| Ekaterini Thanou Greece | Gail Devers United States | Philomena Mensah Canada |

* Inger Miller originally won the bronze but was disqualified for excessive caffeine level.

## Results

### Heats

First 2 of each heat (Q) and next 8 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | Ekaterini Thanou | Greece | 7.01 | Q, NR |
| 2 | 2 | Philomena Mensah | Canada | 7.02 | Q, NR |
| 3 | 4 | Sevatheda Fynes | Bahamas | 7.08 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Joan Uduak Ekah | Nigeria | 7.10 | Q, WJR |
| 5 | 3 | Endurance Ojokolo | Nigeria | 7.12 | Q, PB |
| 6 | 4 | Liliana Allen | Mexico | 7.14 | Q, NR |
| 6 | 1 | Gail Devers | United States | 7.14 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | Wendy Hartman | South Africa | 7.17 | q, NR |
| 8 | 4 | Petya Pendareva | Bulgaria | 7.17 | q |
| 10 | 2 | Andrea Philipp | Germany | 7.18 | q, PB |
| 11 | 3 | Sandra Citte | France | 7.19 | q |
| 12 | 1 | Manuela Levorato | Italy | 7.25 | q, PB |
| 13 | 1 | Alenka Bikar | Slovenia | 7.26 | q, PB |
| 14 | 3 | Hanitriniaina Rakotondrabe | Madagascar | 7.27 | q, PB |
| 15 | 1 | Anzhelika Shevchuk | Ukraine | 7.31 | |
| 15 | 3 | Zuzanna Radecka | Poland | 7.31 | q, PB |
| 17 | 2 | Christine Bloomfield | Great Britain | 7.32 | PB |
| 17 | 4 | Li Xuemei | China | 7.32 | |
| 17 | 4 | Natallia Safronnikava | Belarus | 7.32 | |
| 20 | 4 | Marzena Pawlak | Poland | 7.36 | PB |
| 21 | 4 | Janine Whitlock | Great Britain | 7.39 | PB |
| 22 | 1 | Heather Samuel | Antigua and Barbuda | 7.41 | |
| 23 | 3 | Saša Prokofijev | Slovenia | 7.43 | PB |
| 24 | 2 | Agnė Visockaitė | Lithuania | 7.45 | |
| 25 | 1 | Lyubov Perepelova | Uzbekistan | 7.51 | |
| 26 | 2 | Motoka Arai | Japan | 7.54 | |
| 27 | 1 | Elena Bobrovskaya | Kyrgyzstan | 7.64 | |
| 28 | 3 | Tamara Shanidze | Georgia | 7.66 | |
| 29 | 3 | Monica Jonathan | Papua New Guinea | 8.06 | |
| 30 | 4 | Ruth Babela Walozontsi | Republic of the Congo | 8.48 | |
| | 3 | Inger Miller | United States | DQ | |
| | 2 | Nora Ivanova | Bulgaria | DNS | |

### Semifinals

First 3 of each semifinal (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | Ekaterini Thanou | Greece | 6.99 | Q, NR |
| 2 | 1 | Sevatheda Fynes | Bahamas | 7.01 | Q, NR |
| 3 | 1 | Gail Devers | United States | 7.07 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Philomena Mensah | Canada | 7.07 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Endurance Ojokolo | Nigeria | 7.08 | Q, PB |
| 6 | 2 | Petya Pendareva | Bulgaria | 7.08 | q, PB |
| 7 | 1 | Joan Uduak Ekah | Nigeria | 7.09 | q, WJR |
| 8 | 2 | Liliana Allen | Mexico | 7.12 | NR |
| 9 | 1 | Wendy Hartman | South Africa | 7.15 | NR |
| 10 | 2 | Andrea Philipp | Germany | 7.17 | PB |
| 11 | 1 | Manuela Levorato | Italy | 7.20 | PB |
| 12 | 1 | Sandra Citte | France | 7.20 | |
| 13 | 2 | Alenka Bikar | Slovenia | 7.24 | PB |
| 14 | 2 | Hanitriniaina Rakotondrabe | Madagascar | 7.34 | |
| 15 | 1 | Zuzanna Radecka | Poland | 7.37 | |
| | 2 | Inger Miller | United States | DQ | |

### Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 6 | Ekaterini Thanou | Greece | 6.96 | WL, NR |
| | 7 | Gail Devers | United States | 7.02 | |
| | 5 | Philomena Mensah | Canada | 7.07 | |
| 4 | 4 | Sevatheda Fynes | Bahamas | 7.09 | |
| 5 | 8 | Joan Uduak Ekah | Nigeria | 7.10 | |
| 6 | 2 | Petya Pendareva | Bulgaria | 7.12 | |
| 7 | 1 | Endurance Ojokolo | Nigeria | 7.19 | |
| | 3 | Inger Miller | United States | DQ | |
