# 2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres

The men's 60 metres event at the 2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 11.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Tim Harden United States | Tim Montgomery United States | Mark Lewis-Francis Great Britain |

## Results
### Heats

First 2 of each heat (Q) and next 8 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | Angelos Pavlakakis | Greece | 6.59 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Tim Montgomery | United States | 6.60 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | Mark Lewis-Francis | Great Britain | 6.61 | Q, PB |
| 4 | 6 | Deji Aliu | Nigeria | 6.62 | Q |
| 4 | 8 | Matthew Shirvington | Australia | 6.62 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | Freddy Mayola | Cuba | 6.63 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | Georgios Theodoridis | Greece | 6.65 | Q |
| 7 | 5 | Venancio José | Spain | 6.65 | Q |
| 7 | 5 | Jérôme Éyana | France | 6.65 | Q, PB |
| 10 | 6 | Stéphane Cali | France | 6.66 | Q |
| 11 | 6 | Nobuharu Asahara | Japan | 6.66 | q |
| 12 | 4 | Tim Harden | United States | 6.67 | Q |
| 13 | 8 | Tim Göbel | Germany | 6.69 | q |
| 14 | 4 | Nicolas Macrozonaris | Canada | 6.70 | Q |
| 14 | 4 | Erik Wijmeersch | Belgium | 6.70 | q, PB |
| 14 | 6 | Gennadiy Chernovol | Kazakhstan | 6.70 | q |
| 17 | 2 | Marcin Krzywański | Poland | 6.71 | Q |
| 17 | 5 | Luca Verdecchia | Italy | 6.71 | q |
| 19 | 7 | Patrick Johnson | Australia | 6.72 | Q |
| 20 | 7 | Urban Acman | Slovenia | 6.73 | Q |
| 21 | 7 | Nathan Bongelo | Belgium | 6.74 | q |
| 22 | 7 | Sergey Bychkov | Russia | 6.74 | q |
| 23 | 3 | Peter Frederick | Trinidad and Tobago | 6.75 | q |
| 24 | 2 | Christian Malcolm | Great Britain | 6.77 | |
| 24 | 3 | Ibrahim Meité | Ivory Coast | 6.77 | |
| 24 | 4 | Matic Šušteršic | Slovenia | 6.77 | |
| 27 | 3 | Dmitri Vasilyev | Russia | 6.78 | |
| 28 | 4 | Chiang Wai Hung | Hong Kong | 6.81 | |
| 29 | 1 | Shingo Kawabata | Japan | 6.82 | Q |
| 29 | 2 | Rolando Blanco | Guatemala | 6.82 | PB |
| 29 | 5 | Carlos Santos | Puerto Rico | 6.82 | |
| 32 | 1 | Konstantin Rurak | Ukraine | 6.83 | |
| 33 | 2 | Slaven Krajačić | Croatia | 6.86 | |
| 34 | 6 | Rashid Chouhal | Malta | 6.87 | SB |
| 35 | 1 | Peter Pulu | Papua New Guinea | 6.89 | |
| 35 | 6 | Ahmad Nasr Ahmad | Egypt | 6.89 | |
| 37 | 3 | Sayon Cooper | Liberia | 6.91 | |
| 38 | 7 | Watson Nyambek | Malaysia | 6.94 | |
| 39 | 2 | Erol Mutlusoy | Turkey | 6.95 | |
| 39 | 5 | Idrissa Sanou | Burkina Faso | 6.95 | |
| 41 | 4 | Eric Nkansah | Ghana | 6.97 | |
| 42 | 1 | Vahagn Javachyan | Armenia | 6.99 | |
| 43 | 5 | Gian Nicola Berardi | San Marino | 7.00 | |
| 43 | 7 | Patrick Mocci Raoumbé | Gabon | 7.00 | |
| 43 | 7 | Arben Maka | Albania | 7.00 | |
| 46 | 1 | Diego Ferreira | Paraguay | 7.04 | |
| 47 | 8 | Joseph Colville | Costa Rica | 7.05 | |
| 48 | 6 | Reuben Apuri | Solomon Islands | 7.09 | |
| 48 | 8 | Ram Krishna Chaudhari | Nepal | 7.09 | |
| 50 | 2 | Youssef El Haress | Lebanon | 7.10 | NR |
| 51 | 8 | Francesco Scuderi | Italy | 7.13 | |
| 52 | 1 | Sunday Emmanuel | Nigeria | 7.18 | |
| 53 | 7 | Watson dos Anjos | São Tomé and Príncipe | 7.23 | |
| 54 | 4 | Somephavanh Soukalune | Laos | 7.29 | NR |
| 55 | 1 | Timothy Brooks | Anguilla | 7.34 | |
| 56 | 5 | Dylan Menzies | Norfolk Island | 7.38 | |
| 57 | 2 | Jean-Marie Vianney Mouanda | Republic of the Congo | 7.43 | |
| 58 | 8 | Fagamanu Sofai | Samoa | 7.67 | |
| | 3 | Moussa Camara | Guinea | DNS | |
| | 5 | Leonard Myles-Mills | Ghana | DNS | |
| | 6 | Denis Daniel Gutierrez | Nicaragua | DNS | |
| | 8 | Sherwin James | Dominica | DNS | |

### Semifinals

First 2 of each semifinal (Q) and next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Tim Harden | United States | 6.52 | Q, SB |
| 2 | 1 | Deji Aliu | Nigeria | 6.55 | Q, SB |
| 3 | 1 | Mark Lewis-Francis | Great Britain | 6.56 | Q, PB |
| 4 | 2 | Tim Montgomery | United States | 6.57 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | Matthew Shirvington | Australia | 6.59 | q |
| 5 | 3 | Tim Göbel | Germany | 6.59 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | Freddy Mayola | Cuba | 6.60 | q, SB |
| 8 | 2 | Georgios Theodoridis | Greece | 6.60 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | Venancio José | Spain | 6.61 | |
| 10 | 3 | Angelos Pavlakakis | Greece | 6.63 | |
| 11 | 2 | Jérôme Éyana | France | 6.64 | PB |
| 12 | 3 | Nicolas Macrozonaris | Canada | 6.67 | |
| 13 | 3 | Stéphane Cali | France | 6.68 | |
| 14 | 2 | Gennadiy Chernovol | Kazakhstan | 6.69 | |
| 15 | 2 | Patrick Johnson | Australia | 6.69 | |
| 16 | 1 | Urban Acman | Slovenia | 6.70 | |
| 17 | 2 | Nobuharu Asahara | Japan | 6.72 | |
| 17 | 3 | Peter Frederick | Trinidad and Tobago | 6.72 | |
| 19 | 2 | Marcin Krzywański | Poland | 6.73 | |
| 20 | 1 | Luca Verdecchia | Italy | 6.74 | |
| 21 | 3 | Erik Wijmeersch | Belgium | 6.78 | |
| 22 | 1 | Nathan Bongelo | Belgium | 6.84 | |
| 23 | 1 | Shingo Kawabata | Japan | 6.85 | |
| 24 | 2 | Sergey Bychkov | Russia | 6.89 | |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Tim Harden | United States | 6.44 | SB |
| | Tim Montgomery | United States | 6.46 | PB |
| | Mark Lewis-Francis | Great Britain | 6.51 | WJR |
| 4 | Freddy Mayola | Cuba | 6.55 | SB |
| 5 | Matthew Shirvington | Australia | 6.55 | SB |
| 6 | Tim Göbel | Germany | 6.59 | |
| 7 | Georgios Theodoridis | Greece | 6.60 | |
| | Deji Aliu | Nigeria | DQ | |