1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres hurdles

Events at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships
Track events
60 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m		men		women
60 m hurdles		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Combined events
Pentathlon				women
Heptathlon		men

The men's 60 metres hurdles event at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 8–9.

Doping disqualification

Jonathan N'Senga of Belgium originally qualified for the final and finished 6th, but was later disqualified for doping.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Anier García  Cuba	Colin Jackson  Great Britain	Davidson Ezinwa  Nigeria

Results

Heats

The first 2 of each heat (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	7.52	Q
2	5	Tony Dees	United States	7.56	Q
3	4	Duane Ross	United States	7.57	Q
4	3	Anier García	Cuba	7.61	Q
29	2	Jonathan N'Senga	Belgium	DQ (7.61)	Q[3]
5	5	Andrey Kislykh	Russia	7.67	Q, PB
6	1	Falk Balzer	Germany	7.68	Q
6	4	Igor Kováč	Slovakia	7.68	Q
8	1	Li Tong	China	7.70	Q
8	5	Chen Yanhao	China	7.70	q
10	4	Philippe Lamine	France	7.71	q
10	5	Mike Fenner	Germany	7.71
12	2	Sébastien Thibault	France	7.72	SB
12	3	Ronald Mehlich	Poland	7.72	Q
14	3	Kyle Vander Kuyp	Australia	7.73	=AR
15	5	Antti Haapakoski	Finland	7.74
16	3	Johan Lisabeth	Belgium	7.75	PB
17	1	Robert Foster	Jamaica	7.77
18	1	Robert Kronberg	Sweden	7.79	PB
19	1	Robin Korving	Netherlands	7.80
20	3	Carlos Sala	Spain	7.81
21	4	Andrea Putignani	Italy	7.85
22	1	Igors Kazanovs	Latvia	7.86
23	2	Krzysztof Mehlich	Poland	7.87
24	5	Gaute Gundersen	Norway	7.88
25	4	Dmitriy Kolesnichenko	Ukraine	7.94
26	3	Pedro Chiamulera	Brazil	7.96	AR
26	4	Damien Greaves	Great Britain	7.96
28	2	Mauro Rossi	Italy	7.98

Semifinals

First 3 of each semifinal (Q) qualified directly for the final.^[4]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	7.51	Q
1	2	Tony Dees	United States	7.51	Q, SB
1	2	Anier García	Cuba	7.51	Q
4	1	Duane Ross	United States	7.57	Q
12	2	Jonathan N'Senga	Belgium	DQ (7.60)	Q[5]
5	1	Igor Kováč	Slovakia	7.62	Q, SB
6	1	Falk Balzer	Germany	7.68
7	1	Li Tong	China	7.72
7	2	Chen Yanhao	China	7.72
9	2	Andrey Kislykh	Russia	7.74
10	1	Philippe Lamine	France	7.76
10	2	Ronald Mehlich	Poland	7.76

Final

^[6]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Anier García	Cuba	7.48	=NR
	5	Colin Jackson	Great Britain	7.49
	4	Tony Dees	United States	7.50	SB
4	6	Duane Ross	United States	7.54
5	1	Igor Kováč	Slovakia	7.59	NR
(6) 6	2	Jonathan N'Senga	Belgium	DQ (7.71)	Doping

References

1. Mark Butler (ed.), "DOPING VIOLATIONS AT IAAF WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS", IAAF Statistics Book – World Indoor Championships SOPOT 2014 (PDF), IAAF, pp. 47–48, retrieved 27 September 2015
2. Heats results
3. for sf, but DQ for doping after final
4. Semifinals results (archived)
5. for final, DQ for doping after final
6. Final results (archived)