2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres
# 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres

The Men's 60 metres event at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held at March 5–6 with the final being held on March 6 at 16:55 local time.

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships :

| World record | Maurice Greene (USA) | 6.39 | Madrid, Spain | 3 February 1998 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| World record | Maurice Greene (USA) | 6.39 | Atlanta, United States | 3 March 2001 |
| European record | Dwain Chambers (GBR) | 6.42 | Turin, Italy | 7 March 2009 |
| Championship record | Dwain Chambers (GBR) | 6.42 | Turin, Italy | 7 March 2009 |
| World Leading | Mike Rodgers (USA) | 6.48 | Albuquerque, United States | 27 February 2011 |
| European Leading | Dwain Chambers (GBR) | 6.57 | Sheffield, United Kingdom | 12 February 2011 |

## Results

### Heats

First 4 in each heat and 4 best performers advanced to the Semifinals.

| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | React | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 3 | Christophe Lemaitre | France | 0.148 | 6.59 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Pascal Mancini | Switzerland | 0.136 | 6.61 | Q, PB |
| 2 | 2 | Francis Obikwelu | Portugal | 0.155 | 6.61 | Q, SB |
| 4 | 3 | Cédric Nabe | Switzerland | 0.154 | 6.64 | Q, PB |
| 5 | 3 | Arnaldo Abrantes | Portugal | 0.149 | 6.65 | Q, =PB |
| 6 | 2 | Martial Mbandjock | France | 0.168 | 6.66 | Q, =SB |
| 7 | 1 | Brian Mariano | Netherlands | 0.162 | 6.68 | Q |
| 8 | 3 | Ryan Moseley | Austria | 0.141 | 6.69 | Q, SB |
| 8 | 3 | Jan Veleba | Czech Republic | 0.156 | 6.69 | q |
| 10 | 1 | Rytis Sakalauskas | Lithuania | 0.175 | 6.70 | Q, =PB |
| 10 | 2 | Emanuele Di Gregorio | Italy | 0.172 | 6.70 | Q |
| 10 | 4 | Ronalds Arājs | Latvia | 0.157 | 6.70 | Q |
| 10 | 4 | Joel Fearon | Great Britain | 0.164 | 6.70 | Q |
| 10 | 5 | Jonathan Åstrand | Finland | 0.156 | 6.70 | Q, PB |
| 10 | 5 | Aliaksandr Linnik | Belarus | 0.163 | 6.70 | Q, =PB |
| 16 | 1 | Libor Žilka | Czech Republic | 0.141 | 6.71 | Q |
| 16 | 4 | Patrick van Luijk | Netherlands | 0.173 | 6.71 | Q |
| 16 | 5 | Dwain Chambers | Great Britain | 0.164 | 6.71 | Q |
| 19 | 1 | Michael Tumi | Italy | 0.172 | 6.72 | q |
| 19 | 4 | Stefan Tärnhuvud | Sweden | 0.167 | 6.72 | Q, =PB |
| 21 | 2 | Iván Mocholí | Spain | 0.159 | 6.74 | Q |
| 21 | 5 | Ángel David Rodríguez | Spain | 0.160 | 6.74 | Q |
| 23 | 4 | Hannu Hämäläinen | Finland | 0.143 | 6.75 | q |
| 23 | 4 | Aleksandr Shpaer | Russia | 0.183 | 6.75 | q |
| 25 | 3 | Ruslan Abbasov | Azerbaijan | 0.144 | 6.77 | SB |
| 25 | 5 | Aggelos Aggelakis | Greece | 0.162 | 6.77 | |
| 27 | 1 | Christian Blum | Germany | 0.156 | 6.80 | |
| 27 | 5 | Panayiotis Ioannou | Cyprus | 0.161 | 6.80 | |
| 29 | 2 | Dario Horvat | Croatia | 0.154 | 6.81 | |
| 30 | 3 | Jarkko Ruostekivi | Finland | 0.159 | 6.82 | |
| 31 | 4 | Arman Andreasyan | Armenia | 0.167 | 6.93 | NR |
| 32 | 2 | Harry Aikines-Aryeetey | Great Britain | 0.162 | 6.94 | |
| 33 | 2 | Ilija Cvijetić | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0.137 | 6.94 | NR |
| 34 | 1 | Federico Gorrieri | San Marino | 0.149 | 7.13 | PB |
| 35 | 1 | Andrew Cavilla | Gibraltar | 0.258 | 7.61 | |
| | 5 | Martin Keller | Germany | | DNS | |

### Semifinals

First 2 in each heat and 2 best performers advanced to the Final.

| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | React | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 2 | Christophe Lemaitre | France | 0.146 | 6.55 | Q, EL |
| 2 | 2 | Brian Mariano | Netherlands | 0.146 | 6.60 | Q, NR |
| 3 | 1 | Dwain Chambers | Great Britain | 0.149 | 6.61 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Martial Mbandjock | France | 0.158 | 6.61 | Q, PB |
| 3 | 3 | Francis Obikwelu | Portugal | 0.164 | 6.61 | Q, SB |
| 6 | 2 | Emanuele Di Gregorio | Italy | 0.159 | 6.62 | q, =SB |
| 6 | 2 | Cédric Nabe | Switzerland | 0.155 | 6.62 | q, PB |
| 8 | 1 | Arnaldo Abrantes | Portugal | 0.150 | 6.66 | |
| 9 | 1 | Pascal Mancini | Switzerland | 0.153 | 6.67 | |
| 10 | 1 | Libor Žilka | Czech Republic | 0.146 | 6.68 | |
| 10 | 1 | Aleksandr Shpaer | Russia | 0.159 | 6.68 | |
| 10 | 3 | Ryan Moseley | Austria | 0.171 | 6.68 | Q, SB |
| 13 | 3 | Joel Fearon | Great Britain | 0.178 | 6.69 | |
| 14 | 3 | Patrick van Luijk | Netherlands | 0.171 | 6.70 | |
| 15 | 2 | Rytis Sakalauskas | Lithuania | 0.180 | 6.71 | |
| 15 | 2 | Hannu Hämäläinen | Finland | 0.132 | 6.71 | |
| 15 | 2 | Iván Mocholí | Spain | 0.147 | 6.71 | |
| 15 | 3 | Jan Veleba | Czech Republic | 0.154 | 6.71 | |
| 15 | 3 | Aliaksandr Linnik | Belarus | 0.159 | 6.71 | |
| 15 | 3 | Michael Tumi | Italy | 0.172 | 6.71 | =PB |
| 21 | 2 | Stefan Tärnhuvud | Sweden | 0.160 | 6.72 | =PB |
| 22 | 1 | Ángel David Rodríguez | Spain | 0.143 | 6.76 | |
| 23 | 1 | Jonathan Åstrand | Finland | 0.154 | 6.77 | |
| 24 | 3 | Ronalds Arājs | Latvia | 0.161 | 6.78 | |

### Final

The final was held at 16:55.

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | React | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 3 | Francis Obikwelu | Portugal | 0.155 | 6.53 | NR, EL |
| | 6 | Dwain Chambers | Great Britain | 0.142 | 6.54 | SB |
| | 4 | Christophe Lemaitre | France | 0.162 | 6.58 | |
| 4 | 2 | Emanuele Di Gregorio | Italy | 0.133 | 6.59 | SB |
| 5 | 7 | Martial Mbandjock | France | 0.148 | 6.61 | =PB |
| 6 | 5 | Brian Mariano | Netherlands | 0.150 | 6.64 | |
| 7 | 1 | Cédric Nabe | Switzerland | 0.162 | 6.67 | |
| 8 | 8 | Ryan Moseley | Austria | 0.160 | 6.68 | |
