The men's 60 metres at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on the short track of Omnisport in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, on 8 March 2025. This was the 36th time the event was contested at the European Athletics Indoor Championships. Athletes qualified by achieving the entry standard or by their World Athletics Ranking in the event.
Background The men's 60 metres was contested 35 times before 2025, at every previous edition of the European Athletics Indoor Championships (1970–2023), with the exception of 1972 and 1981, when the 50 metres was held instead.András Szabó, "Statistics Handbook", pp. 6 and 322–323, European Athletics. Retrieved 21 November 2024. The 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held in Omnisport Apeldoorn in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. The removable indoor athletics track was retopped for these championships in September 2024.
Christian Coleman of the United States is the world record holder with a time of 6.34 s, set in 2018."All time Top lists – Senior – 60 Metres men", World Athletics. Retrieved 25 February 2025. The European record is held by Marcell Jacobs of Italy in 2022. The championship record of 6.42 s was set by Dwain Chambers of Great Britain in 2009.
+Records before the 2025 European Athletics Indoor ChampionshipsRecordAthlete (nation)LocationDateWorld record6.34Albuquerque, United States18 February 2018European record6.41Belgrade, Serbia19 March 2022Championship record6.42Turin, Italy7 March 2009World leading"Season Top Lists – Senior 2025 – 60 Metres Short Track men", World Athletics, 2025. Retrieved 6 February 2025. 6.50 Lubbock, United States 24 January 2025European leading6.54Düsseldorf, Germany9 February 2025Madrid, Spain22 February 2025
Qualification For the men's 60 metres, the qualification period ran from 25 February 2024 until 23 February 2025."Qualification System and Entry Standards", European Athletics, 29 October 2024. Retrieved 21 November 2024. Athletes qualified by achieving the entry standards of 6.60 s indoors or 10.05 s over 100 metres outdoors. Athletes could also qualify by virtue of their World Athletics Ranking for the event. There was a target number of 40 athletes.
Results Round 1 Round 1 took place on 8 March, starting at 12:00 (UTC+1) in the afternoon."Competition schedule – European Athletics Indoor Championships Apeldoorn 2025", European Athletics, 15 February 2024. Retrieved 21 November 2024. First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 by time (q) qualified for the semi-finals.
Heat 1 Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Andrew Robertson 6.60 , 2 Taymir Burnet 6.62 , = 3 Robin Ganter 6.63 4 Simon Hansen 6.63 , 5 Oliwer Wdowik 6.64 , 6 Guillem Crespí 6.66 7 Santeri Örn 6.75 8 Francesco Sansovini 6.83
Heat 2 Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Henrik Larsson 6.59 2 Carlos Nascimento 6.61 , 3 Elvis Afrifa 6.63 4 John Otugade 6.63 5 Stephen Baffour 6.65 , 6 Adas Dambrauskas 6.69 7 Aleksa Kijanović 6.74 8 Sean Penalver 7.38
Heat 3 Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Allan Lagui 6.59 2 Kevin Kranz 6.60 3 Anej Čurin Prapotnik 6.61 , 4 William Reais 6.66 5 Eino Vuori 6.70 6 Ján Volko 6.72 7 Nsikak Ekpo 6.78 8 Vasileios Myrianthopoulos 6.79
Heat 4 Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Jeremiah Azu 6.58 2 Dominik Illovszky 6.58 , 3 Nikola Karamanolov 6.66 4 Yannick Wolf 6.67 5 Jean-Christian Zirignon 6.72 6 Mustafa Kemal Ay 6.77 7 Sotirios Garaganis 6.77 8 Beppe Grillo 6.83
Heat 5 Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Karl Erik Nazarov 6.61 , 2 Toluwabori Akinola 6.66 3 Abel Jordán 6.67 4 Samuele Ceccarelli 6.67 5 Hristo Iliev 6.71 6 Ertan Özkan 6.74 7 Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos 6.74 8 Delvis Santos 6.77
Semi-finals The semi-finals took place on 8 March, starting at 19:10 (UTC+1) in the evening. First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 by time (q) qualified for the final.
Heat 1 Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Jeremiah Azu 6.52 , , 2 Elvis Afrifa 6.57 , 3 Kevin Kranz 6.58 4 Adas Dambrauskas 6.62 = 5 Oliwer Wdowik 6.62 6 Anej Čurin Prapotnik 6.65 7 Dominik Illovszky 6.65 8 William Reais 6.70
Heat 2 Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Andrew Robertson 6.57 , 2 Henrik Larsson 6.58 3 Taymir Burnet 6.61 , 4 Toluwabori Akinola 6.63 5 Yannick Wolf 6.64 6 Simon Hansen 6.66 7 Stephen Baffour 6.67 8 Abel Jordán 6.68
Heat 3 Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Guillem Crespí 6.58 , 2 Carlos Nascimento 6.61 , = 3 Robin Ganter 6.65 3 Karl Erik Nazarov 6.65 5 John Otugade 6.67 6 Samuele Ceccarelli 6.68 7 Allan Lagui 6.72 8 Nikola Karamanolov 6.82
Final The final took place on for 8 March, starting at 21:40 (UTC+1) in the evening. Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes Jeremiah Azu 6.49 , Henrik Larsson 6.52 Andrew Robertson 6.55 4 Elvis Afrifa 6.55 5 Kevin Kranz 6.57 = 6 Guillem Crespí 6.59 7 Carlos Nascimento 6.62 8 Taymir Burnet 6.66
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