2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres

Men's 60 metres at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Venue	Omnisport Apeldoorn [1]
Location	Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Dates	8 March 2025
Competitors	40 from 25 nations
Winning time	6.49
Medalists
Jeremiah Azu    Great Britain   Henrik Larsson    Sweden   Andrew Robertson    Great Britain
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The men's 60 metres at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships is scheduled to be held on the short track of Omnisport in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, on 8 March 2025. This will be the 36th time the event is contested at the European Athletics Indoor Championships. Athletes can qualify 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. ^[2] The 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships will be held in Omnisport Apeldoorn in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. ^[3] The removable indoor athletics track was retopped for these championships in September 2024. ^[3]

Christian Coleman of the United States is the world record holder with a time of 6.34 s, set in 2018. ^[4] 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 Championships

Record	Athlete (nation)	Time (s)	Location	Date
World record [4]	Christian Coleman  (USA)	6.34	Albuquerque, United States	18 February 2018
European record [4]	Marcell Jacobs  (ITA)	6.41	Belgrade, Serbia	19 March 2022
Championship record	Dwain Chambers  (GBR)	6.42	Turin, Italy	7 March 2009
World leading [5]	Lachlan Kennedy  (AUS)	6.43	Canberra, Australia	25 January 2025
European leading [5]	Henrik Larsson  (SWE)	6.54	Düsseldorf, Germany	9 February 2025
	Abel Jordán  (ESP)		Madrid, Spain	22 February 2025

Qualification

For the men's 60 metres, the qualification period runs from 25 February 2024 until 23 February 2025. ^[6] Athletes can qualify by achieving the entry standards of 6.60 s indoors or 10.05 s over 100 metres outdoors. Athletes can also qualify by virtue of their World Athletics Ranking for the event. ^[6] There is a target number of 40 athletes. ^[6]

Rounds

Round 1

Round 1 is scheduled for 8 March, starting at 12:00 (UTC+1) in the afternoon. ^[7] Qualification Rule: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 by time (q) qualify for the semi-finals.

Results of round 1 ^{[8] [9]}

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time (s)	Notes	PB
1	4	Jeremiah Azu	Great Britain	6.58	Q	6.56
2	4	Dominik Illovszky	Hungary	6.58	Q, PB	6.61
3	3	Allan Lagui	France	6.59	Q	6.58
4	2	Henrik Larsson	Sweden	6.59	Q	6.53
5	1	Andrew Robertson	Great Britain	6.60	Q, SB	6.56
6	3	Kevin Kranz	Germany	6.60	Q	6.52
7	2	Carlos Nascimento	Portugal	6.61	Q, PB	6.62
8	5	Karl Erik Nazarov	Estonia	6.61	Q, SB	6.55
9	3	Anej Čurin Prapotnik	Slovenia	6.61	Q, PB	6.64
10	1	Taymir Burnet	Netherlands	6.62	Q, =PB	6.62
11	1	Robin Ganter	Germany	6.63	Q	6.56
12	2	Elvis Afrifa	Netherlands	6.63	Q	6.61
13	2	John Otugade	Great Britain	6.63	Q	6.60
14	1	Simon Hansen	Denmark	6.63	Q, SB	6.58
15	1	Oliwer Wdowik	Poland	6.64	q, SB	6.60
16	2	Stephen Baffour	Italy	6.65	q, PB	6.68
17	4	Nikola Karamanolov	Bulgaria	6.66	Q	6.63
18	1	Guillem Crespí	Spain	6.66	q	6.60
19	3	William Reais	Switzerland	6.66	Q	6.62
20	5	Toluwabori Akinola	Ireland	6.66	Q	6.61
21	4	Yannick Wolf	Germany	6.67	Q	6.60
22	5	Abel Jordán	Spain	6.67	Q	6.54
23	5	Samuele Ceccarelli	Italy	6.67	Q	6.47
24	2	Adas Dambrauskas	Lithuania	6.69	q	6.64
25	3	Eino Vuori	Finland	6.70		6.62
26	5	Hristo Iliev	Bulgaria	6.71		6.70
27	3	Ján Volko	Slovakia	6.72		6.55
28	4	Jean-Christian Zirignon	Sweden	6.72		6.68
29	2	Aleksa Kijanović	Serbia	6.74		6.66
30	5	Ertan Özkan	Turkey	6.74		6.60
31	5	Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos	Greece	6.74	PB	6.78
32	1	Santeri Örn	Finland	6.75		6.74
33	4	Mustafa Kemal Ay	Turkey	6.77		6.65
34	4	Sotirios Garaganis	Greece	6.77		6.72
35	5	Delvis Santos	Portugal	6.77		6.70
36	3	Nsikak Ekpo	Netherlands	6.78		6.73
37	3	Vasileios Myrianthopoulos	Greece	6.79		6.77
38	1	Francesco Sansovini	San Marino	6.83		6.68
39	4	Beppe Grillo	Malta	6.83	PB	6.95
40	2	Sean Penalver	Gibraltar	7.38	PB	7.45

Semi-finals

The semi-finals are scheduled for 9 March, starting at 19:10 (UTC+1) in the evening. ^[7] Qualification rule: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 by time (q) qualify for the final.

Results of the semi-finals ^{[10] [11]}

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time (s)	Notes
1	1	Jeremiah Azu	Great Britain	6.52	Q, EL, PB
2	1	Elvis Afrifa	Netherlands	6.57	Q, PB
3	2	Andrew Robertson	Great Britain	6.57	Q, SB
4	2	Henrik Larsson	Sweden	6.58	Q
5	1	Kevin Kranz	Germany	6.58	q
6	3	Guillem Crespí	Spain	6.58	Q, PB
7	2	Taymir Burnet	Netherlands	6.61	q, PB
8	3	Carlos Nascimento	Portugal	6.61	Q, =PB
9	1	Adas Dambrauskas	Lithuania	6.62	=NR
10	1	Oliwer Wdowik	Poland	6.62	SB
11	2	Toluwabori Akinola	Ireland	6.63
12	2	Yannick Wolf	Germany	6.64
13	1	Anej Čurin Prapotnik	Slovenia	6.65
14	1	Dominik Illovszky	Hungary	6.65
15	3	Robin Ganter	Germany	6.65
16	3	Karl Erik Nazarov	Estonia	6.65
17	2	Simon Hansen	Denmark	6.66
18	2	Stephen Baffour	Italy	6.67
19	3	John Otugade	Great Britain	6.67
20	3	Samuele Ceccarelli	Italy	6.68
21	2	Abel Jordán	Spain	6.68
22	1	William Reais	Switzerland	6.70
23	3	Allan Lagui	France	6.72
24	3	Nikola Karamanolov	Bulgaria	6.82

Final

The final is scheduled for 9 March, starting at 21:40 (UTC+1) in the evening. ^[7]

Results of the final ^[12]

Rank	Lane	Athlete	Nationality	Time (s)	Note
	4	Jeremiah Azu	Great Britain	6.49	EL, PB
	7	Henrik Larsson	Sweden	6.52	NR
	6	Andrew Robertson	Great Britain	6.55	SB
4	4	Elvis Afrifa	Netherlands	6.55	NR
5	8	Kevin Kranz	Germany	6.57	=SB
6	5	Guillem Crespí	Spain	6.59
7	2	Carlos Nascimento	Portugal	6.62
8	1	Taymir Burnet	Netherlands	6.66

References

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