# 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres hurdles

The men's 60 metres hurdles at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held at the Ataköy Athletics Arena on 10 and 11 March.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Aries Merritt United States | Liu Xiang China | Pascal Martinot-Lagarde France |

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships :
| World record | Colin Jackson (GBR) | 7.30 | Sindelfingen, Germany | 6 March 1994 |
| Championship record | Dayron Robles (CUB) | 7.34 | Doha, Qatar | 14 March 2010 |
| World Leading | Dexter Faulk (USA) | 7.40 | Albuquerque, United States | 25 February 2012 |
| African record | Shaun Bownes (RSA) | 7.52 | Ghent, Belgium | 23 February 2001 |
| Asian record | Liu Xiang (CHN) | 7.41 | Birmingham, Great Britain | 18 February 2012 |
| European record | Colin Jackson (GBR) | 7.30 | Sindelfingen, Germany | 6 March 1994 |
| North and Central American and Caribbean record | Dayron Robles (CUB) | 7.33 | Düsseldorf, Germany | 8 February 2008 |
| Oceanian Record | Kyle Vander Kuyp (AUS) | 7.73 | Barcelona, Spain | 11 March 1995 |
| Oceanian Record | Kyle Vander Kuyp (AUS) | 7.73 | Barcelona, Spain | 12 March 1995 |
| Oceanian Record | Kyle Vander Kuyp (AUS) | 7.73 | Paris, France | 8 March 1997 |
| South American record | Márcio de Souza (BRA) | 7.60 | Karlsruhe, Germany | 15 February 2004 |

## Qualification standards

| Indoor | Outdoor |
| 7.74 | 13.55 (110 mH) |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| March 10, 2012 | 9:40 | Heats |
| March 11, 2012 | 14:45 | Semifinals |
| March 11, 2012 | 17:20 | Final |

## Results
### Heats

Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) plus 4 fastest times (q) qualified
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | Andrew Pozzi | Great Britain | 7.61 | Q, PB |
| 2 | 2 | Liu Xiang | China | 7.62 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Pascal Martinot-Lagarde | France | 7.66 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Aries Merritt | United States | 7.66 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | Lehann Fourie | South Africa | 7.67 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | Emanuele Abate | Italy | 7.71 | Q |
| 6 | 4 | Richard Phillips | Jamaica | 7.71 | Q |
| 8 | 1 | Konstantin Shabanov | Russia | 7.72 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | Helge Schwarzer | Germany | 7.72 | Q |
| 10 | 1 | Paolo dal Molin | Italy | 7.78 | q |
| 11 | 2 | Balázs Baji | Hungary | 7.81 | q |
| 11 | 3 | Maksim Lynsha | Belarus | 7.81 | Q |
| 11 | 4 | Artur Noga | Poland | 7.81 | Q |
| 14 | 4 | Orlando Ortega | Cuba | 7.82 | q |
| 15 | 4 | Ben Reynolds | Ireland | 7.82 | q |
| 16 | 3 | Jackson Quiñónez | Spain | 7.83 | Q |
| 16 | 1 | Konstadinos Douvalidis | Greece | 7.83 | |
| 16 | 4 | Gregor Traber | Germany | 7.83 | |
| 19 | 2 | Dominik Bochenek | Poland | 7.85 | |
| 20 | 3 | Evgeniy Borisov | Russia | 7.88 | |
| 21 | 2 | Ronald Forbes | Cayman Islands | 7.95 | |
| 22 | 3 | Eric Keddo | Jamaica | 7.96 | |
| 23 | 2 | Abdulaziz Al-Mandeel | Kuwait | 7.98 | |
| 24 | 3 | Shi Dongpeng | China | 8.15 | SB |
| 25 | 2 | Jorge McFarlane | Peru | 8.16 | SB |
| 26 | 3 | Alexandros Stavrides | Cyprus | 8.17 | |
| 27 | 1 | Kim Fai Iong | Macau | 8.41 | SB |
| 28 | 1 | Ali Hazer | Lebanon | 8.84 | |
| 29 | 4 | Enrique Llanos | Puerto Rico | 9.65 | |
| | 4 | Mensah Elliott | Gambia | DNF | |
| | 1 | Othmane Hadj Lazib | Algeria | DQ | |
| | 3 | Kevin Craddock | United States | DNS | |

### Semifinals

Qualification: First 4 of each heat (Q) qualified.
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Liu Xiang | China | 7.53 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Andrew Pozzi | Great Britain | 7.56 | Q, PB |
| 3 | 2 | Pascal Martinot-Lagarde | France | 7.60 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Emanuele Abate | Italy | 7.62 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Aries Merritt | United States | 7.65 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | Lehann Fourie | South Africa | 7.65 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | Konstantin Shabanov | Russia | 7.67 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | Artur Noga | Poland | 7.68 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | Orlando Ortega | Cuba | 7.71 | |
| 10 | 1 | Maksim Lynsha | Belarus | 7.74 | |
| 11 | 2 | Helge Schwarzer | Germany | 7.75 | |
| 12 | 1 | Balázs Baji | Hungary | 7.76 | |
| 13 | 1 | Ben Reynolds | Ireland | 7.80 | |
| 14 | 1 | Jackson Quiñónez | Spain | 7.82 | |
| 15 | 2 | Paolo dal Molin | Italy | 7.92 | |
| | 2 | Richard Phillips | Jamaica | DNS | |

### Final

The final began at 17:21.
| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 4 | Aries Merritt | United States | 7.44 | |
| | 3 | Liu Xiang | China | 7.49 | |
| | 6 | Pascal Martinot-Lagarde | France | 7.53 | PB |
| 4 | 5 | Andrew Pozzi | Great Britain | 7.58 | |
| 5 | 2 | Konstantin Shabanov | Russia | 7.60 | |
| 6 | 7 | Emanuele Abate | Italy | 7.63 | |
| 7 | 8 | Lehann Fourie | South Africa | 7.69 | |
| 8 | 1 | Artur Noga | Poland | 7.74 | |