1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres

The winner of each heat (Q) and next 8 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.[1]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Charalambos Papadias	Greece	6.55	Q
2	4	Jason Gardener	Great Britain	6.56	Q, SB
2	7	Bruny Surin	Canada	6.56	Q
4	4	Eric Nkansah	Ghana	6.58	q, PB
4	5	Angelos Pavlakakis	Greece	6.58	Q, PB
4	6	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	6.58	Q
4	7	Patrik Lövgren	Sweden	6.58	q, =NR
4	8	Tim Montgomery	United States	6.58	Q
9	1	Davidson Ezinwa	Nigeria	6.59	Q
9	10	Deji Aliu	Nigeria	6.59	Q
11	2	Kostya Rurak	Ukraine	6.60	Q, PB
12	2	Robert Esmie	Canada	6.61	q
12	9	Michael Green	Jamaica	6.61	Q
14	6	Fernando Ramirez	Norway	6.63	q
15	3	Yiannis Zisimides	Cyprus	6.64	q
16	1	Renward Wells	Bahamas	6.65	q, NR
17	4	Randall Evans	United States	6.66	q
18	2	Chen Wenzhong	China	6.67	q
18	10	Marc Blume	Germany	6.67
20	3	Stéphane Cali	France	6.69
20	5	Jean-Olivier Zirignon	Ivory Coast	6.69	PB
22	1	Jason Livingston	Great Britain	6.70
22	9	André da Silva	Brazil	6.70
24	8	Ibrahim Meité	Ivory Coast	6.71
25	8	Koji Ito	Japan	6.71
26	1	Alex Menal	France	6.72
27	5	Emmanuel Tuffour	Ghana	6.73
27	6	Augustine Nketia	New Zealand	6.73
27	9	Frutos Feo	Spain	6.73
30	2	Giovanni Puggioni	Italy	6.75
30	4	Ivan Šlehobr	Czech Republic	6.75
32	10	Gábor Dobos	Hungary	6.76
33	7	Ivo Krsek	Czech Republic	6.77
34	1	Watson Nyambek	Malaysia	6.80
34	7	Hideki Onohara	Japan	6.80
36	2	Issa-Aimé Nthépé	Cameroon	6.82
36	3	Miklós Gyulai	Hungary	6.82
38	6	José Illán	Spain	6.84
39	6	Jorge Polanco	Argentina	6.85
40	10	Dinçer Ersoy	Turkey	6.86
41	4	Miguel Janssen	Aruba	6.87
42	6	Patrick Mocci-Raoumbé	Gabon	6.88
42	10	Arnaldo Silva	Brazil	6.88
42	10	Peter Pulu	Papua New Guinea	6.88
45	3	Hamed Habib	Kuwait	6.92
46	2	Pascal Dangbo	Benin	6.94
47	7	Theodore Haba	Guinea	6.95
47	8	Francis Keita	Sierra Leone	6.95
49	5	Gabriel Simón	Argentina	6.96
50	8	Mario Bonello	Malta	6.97	NR
51	9	Valentin Ngbogo	Central African Republic	7.04
	8	Kouty Mawenh	Liberia	DNF
	9	Ousmane Diarra	Mali	DNF
	1	Norberto Nsue Ondo	Equatorial Guinea	DNS
	5	Ato Boldon	Trinidad and Tobago	DNS

First 2 of each semifinal (Q) qualified directly for the final.[2]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Bruny Surin	Canada	6.50	Q, SB
2	3	Michael Green	Jamaica	6.50	Q
3	1	Charalambos Papadias	Greece	6.53	Q
4	1	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	6.54	Q
5	1	Robert Esmie	Canada	6.54	PB
6	1	Eric Nkansah	Ghana	6.57	PB
6	2	Davidson Ezinwa	Nigeria	6.57	Q
6	3	Tim Montgomery	United States	6.57
9	2	Patrik Lövgren	Sweden	6.58	Q, =NR
10	2	Angelos Pavlakakis	Greece	6.61
11	2	Jason Gardener	Great Britain	6.62
12	2	Randall Evans	United States	6.63
13	3	Kostya Rurak	Ukraine	6.65
14	3	Renward Wells	Bahamas	6.65	=NR
15	1	Chen Wenzhong	China	6.67
16	3	Yiannis Zisimides	Cyprus	6.73
17	2	Fernando Ramirez	Norway	6.74
	1	Deji Aliu	Nigeria	DQ

[3]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Charalambos Papadias	Greece	6.50	NR
	2	Michael Green	Jamaica	6.51
	4	Davidson Ezinwa	Nigeria	6.52	PB
4	1	Raymond Stewart	Jamaica	6.55
5	3	Bruny Surin	Canada	6.57
6	6	Patrik Lövgren	Sweden	6.61