60 metres is a sprint event in track and field athletics. It is a championship event for indoor championships, normally dominated by the best outdoor 100 metres runners. At outdoor venues it is a rare distance, at least for senior athletes. The 60 metres was an Olympic event in the 1900 and 1904 Summer Games but was removed from the schedule thereafter.
In the past, it was common for athletes to compete in the 60 yards race. This is not part of the lineage of the 60 metres, but is the predecessor of the 55 metres race.
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Olympic medallists
| Year: | Gold: | Silver: | Bronze: | |||
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| 1900 Paris | Alvin Kraenzlein USA |
7.0 | John W. Tewksbury USA |
7.1 | Stanley Rowley AUS |
7.2 |
| 1904 St. Louis | Archie Hahn USA |
7.0 | William Hogenson USA |
7.2 | Fay Moulton USA |
7.9 |
Area records
Indoor results only. Updated June 2009.
| Area | Men's | Women's | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Athlete | Nation | Time | Athlete | Nation | |
| Africa | 6.45[A] | Leonard Myles-Mills |  Ghana |
7.02 | Christy Opara-Thompson Chioma Ajunwa |
 Nigeria Nigeria |
| Asia | 6.51 | Talal Mansour |  Qatar |
7.09 | Susanthika Jayasinghe |  Sri Lanka |
| Europe | 6.42 | Dwain Chambers |  United Kingdom |
6.92 | Irina Privalova |  Russia |
| North, Central America and Caribbean |
6.39 | Maurice Greene |  United States |
6.95 | Gail Devers Marion Jones |
United States United States |
| Oceania | 6.52 | Matthew Shirvington |  Australia |
7.30 | Sally McLellan | Australia |
| South America | 6.52 | José Carlos Moreira |  Brazil |
7.26[A] | Esmeralda de Jesús Garcia | Brazil |
- A Represents a time set at a high altitude.[1]
Top all-time male athletes
Indoor results only. Updated June 2009.
Top all-time female athletes
Updated June 2009.
References
- ^ 60 Metres Records. IAAF (2009-04-04). Retrieved on 2009-04-04.
External links
- All-time men's indoors best 60 metres from alltime-athletics.com
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