1976 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres
# 1976 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres

The men's 60 metres event at the 1976 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 21 February in Munich.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - |
| Valeriy Borzov Soviet Union | Vassilios Papageorgopoulos Greece | Petar Petrov Bulgaria |

## Results

### Heats

First 3 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the semifinals.

| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | Nikolay Kolesnikov | Soviet Union | 6.74 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Aleksandr Kornelyuk | Soviet Union | 6.77 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Petar Petrov | Bulgaria | 6.78 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Vassilios Papageorgopoulos | Greece | 6.80 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | Josep Carbonell | Spain | 6.83 | |
| 5 | 2 | Luis Sarría | Spain | 6.83 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Zenon Nowosz | Poland | 6.83 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | Andrzej Świerczyński | Poland | 6.83 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | Bernard Petitbois | France | 6.86 | Q |
| 10 | 3 | László Lukács | Hungary | 6.88 | |
| 10 | 4 | Valeriy Borzov | Soviet Union | 6.88 | Q |
| 12 | 2 | Claudiu Suselescu | Romania | 6.89 | Q |
| 13 | 2 | Karl-Heinz Weisenseel | West Germany | 6.90 | |
| 13 | 4 | Ján Chebeň | Czechoslovakia | 6.90 | Q |
| 15 | 2 | Jean-Claude Amoureux | France | 6.92 | |
| 16 | 4 | Markku Perttula | Finland | 6.98 | Q |
| 17 | 4 | Serafim Liapis | Greece | 6.99 | |
| 18 | 3 | Gernot Massing | Austria | 7.01 | |

### Semifinals

First 3 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.

| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 2 | Aleksandr Kornelyuk | Soviet Union | 6.69 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Petar Petrov | Bulgaria | 6.71 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Valeriy Borzov | Soviet Union | 6.72 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Vassilios Papageorgopoulos | Greece | 6.74 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | Nikolay Kolesnikov | Soviet Union | 6.75 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | Luis Sarría | Spain | 6.78 | |
| 7 | 1 | Zenon Nowosz | Poland | 6.79 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | Andrzej Świerczyński | Poland | 6.79 | |
| 9 | 1 | Claudiu Suselescu | Romania | 6.84 | |
| 10 | 1 | Bernard Petitbois | France | 6.86 | |
| 11 | 1 | Ján Chebeň | Czechoslovakia | 6.87 | |
| 12 | 2 | Markku Perttula | Finland | 6.94 | |

### Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 5 | Valeriy Borzov | Soviet Union | 6.58 | =CR |
| | 4 | Vassilios Papageorgopoulos | Greece | 6.67 | NR |
| | 2 | Petar Petrov | Bulgaria | 6.68 | |
| 4 | 3 | Nikolay Kolesnikov | Soviet Union | 6.70 | |
| 5 | 1 | Aleksandr Kornelyuk | Soviet Union | 6.71 | |
| 6 | 6 | Zenon Nowosz | Poland | 6.79 | |
