# 1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres

The men's 60 metres event at the 1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis on 6 and 7 March.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Lee McRae United States | Mark Witherspoon United States | Pierfrancesco Pavoni Italy |
Note: Ben Johnson of Canada originally won the gold medal in a world record time of 6.41, but he was disqualified in September 1989 after he admitted to steroid use between 1981 and 1988.

## Results
### Heats

The first 2 of each heat (Q) and next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Ben Johnson | Canada | 6.60 | DQ |
| 1 | 5 | Ronald Desruelles | Belgium | 6.64 | Q |
| 1 | 6 | Pierfrancesco Pavoni | Italy | 6.64 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Lee McRae | United States | 6.66 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Mark Witherspoon | United States | 6.66 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Christian Haas | West Germany | 6.66 | Q |
| 6 | 4 | Bruno Marie-Rose | France | 6.67 | Q |
| 7 | 6 | Valentin Atanasov | Bulgaria | 6.68 | Q |
| 8 | 3 | Andrés Simón | Cuba | 6.69 | Q |
| 8 | 6 | William Trott | Bermuda | 6.69 | q. NR |
| 10 | 5 | Li Tao | China | 6.70 | Q, NR |
| 10 | 5 | Antonio Ullo | Italy | 6.70 | q |
| 12 | 2 | Antoine Richard | France | 6.71 | Q |
| 13 | 5 | Elliot Bunney | Great Britain | 6.72 | q |
| 14 | 2 | Rohan Wade | Jamaica | 6.73 | q, NR |
| 15 | 3 | Charles-Louis Seck | Senegal | 6.74 | |
| 16 | 5 | José Javier Arqués | Spain | 6.75 | |
| 17 | 1 | Attila Kovács | Hungary | 6.76 | Q |
| 17 | 4 | Mike McFarlane | Great Britain | 6.76 | |
| 19 | 2 | Rick Jones | Canada | 6.77 | |
| 20 | 2 | Ricardo Chacón | Cuba | 6.79 | |
| 21 | 4 | Neville Hodge | United States Virgin Islands | 6.83 | NR |
| 22 | 4 | Dazel Jules | Trinidad and Tobago | 6.84 | |
| 23 | 5 | Greg Barnes | United States Virgin Islands | 6.85 | |
| 24 | 3 | Gregory Meghoo | Jamaica | 6.88 | |
| 25 | 1 | John Albertie | Saint Lucia | 6.91 | |
| 26 | 2 | Esteban Carpio | Dominican Republic | 6.92 | |
| 27 | 3 | Lars Hummel | Denmark | 6.97 | |
| 28 | 4 | Earl Hazel | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 6.99 | NR |
| 29 | 3 | Julien Thode | Netherlands Antilles | 7.00 | |
| 30 | 6 | Orde Ballantyne | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 7.05 | NR |
| 31 | 5 | Sumet Promna | Thailand | 7.07 | NR |
| 32 | 1 | Cyril Brioche | Seychelles | 7.11 | NR |
| 33 | 2 | Simon Kipkemboi | Kenya | 7.12 | NR |
| 34 | 4 | Ziad Hanna | Lebanon | 7.14 | NR |
| 35 | 6 | Clifford Mamba | Swaziland | 7.21 | NR |
| 36 | 6 | Trevor Davis | Anguilla | 7.21 | NR |
| 37 | 3 | Sunday Olweny | Uganda | 7.22 | NR |
| 38 | 3 | Carl Chicksen | Zimbabwe | 7.23 | NR |
| 39 | 5 | Rodney Cox | Turks and Caicos Islands | 7.27 | NR |
| 40 | 1 | William George | Liberia | 7.38 | NR |
| | 1 | Victor Edet | Nigeria | DNS | |
| | 1 | Leandro Peñalver | Cuba | DNS | |
| | 1 | Mustapha Kamel Selmi | Algeria | DNS | |
| | 2 | Fabian Whymns | Bahamas | DNS | |
| | 4 | Chidi Imoh | Nigeria | DNS | |
| | 6 | Robson da Silva | Brazil | DNS | |
| | 6 | Otokpa Kouadio | Ivory Coast | DNS | |

### Semifinals

First 4 of each semifinal (Q) qualified directly for the final.
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Ben Johnson | Canada | 6.49 | DQ |
| 1 | 1 | Lee McRae | United States | 6.58 | Q, PB |
| 2 | 2 | Mark Witherspoon | United States | 6.60 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Antonio Ullo | Italy | 6.65 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Pierfrancesco Pavoni | Italy | 6.66 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Bruno Marie-Rose | France | 6.66 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | Ronald Desruelles | Belgium | 6.67 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | Christian Haas | West Germany | 6.67 | Q |
| 8 | 1 | Valentin Atanasov | Bulgaria | 6.67 | |
| 9 | 1 | Antoine Richard | France | 6.69 | |
| 10 | 2 | Li Tao | China | 6.70 | =NR |
| 11 | 2 | William Trott | Bermuda | 6.71 | |
| 12 | 1 | Andrés Simón | Cuba | 6.72 | |
| 13 | 2 | Elliot Bunney | Great Britain | 6.74 | |
| 14 | 2 | Rohan Wade | Jamaica | 6.81 | |
| 15 | 1 | Attila Kovács | Hungary | 6.83 | |

### Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | 6 | Lee McRae | United States | 6.50 | WR, CR |
| | 4 | Mark Witherspoon | United States | 6.54 | PB |
| | 5 | Pierfrancesco Pavoni | Italy | 6.59 | |
| 4 | 2 | Antonio Ullo | Italy | 6.64 | |
| 5 | 8 | Ronald Desruelles | Belgium | 6.67 | |
| 6 | 7 | Bruno Marie-Rose | France | 6.68 | |
| 6 | 1 | Christian Haas | West Germany | 6.68 | |
| DSQ | 3 | Ben Johnson | Canada | 6.41 | |