page_title: 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres
section_title: Heats
hierarchical_section_title: 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres / Results / Heats
caption_attribution_description: English: Yevgeniya Polyakova in the Iaaf Weltklasse Golden League meeting on September 7th, 2007 in Zurich, Switzerland.
context_page_description: The women's 60 metres competition at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held at the ASPIRE Dome on 12 and 14 March.
  The race was expected to be a duel between LaVerne Jones-Ferrette and Carmelita Jeter who had run some of the fastest times for many seasons at 6.97 and 7.02 seconds, respectively. In the first round of competition Myriam Soumaré was the surprise winner of the first heat, Jones-Ferrette clocked the fastest of the day in her heat with 7.14 seconds, while Veronica Campbell-Brown and Jeter topped their qualifiers comfortably. Ruddy Zang Milama of Gabon was another surprise in the final heat as she beat the more experienced Sheri-Ann Brooks and Mikele Barber.
  On the second day of competition, Campbell-Brown placed herself in contention for a medal with a 7.07 second run in the first semi-final, although Jones-Ferrette's time in the second semi was faster still. Brooks ran a personal best to beat Jeter in the last semi-final of the day. Among the other qualifiers, Zang Milama surprised further with 7.13-second national record to become the first Gabonese athlete to reach an indoor final in any event.
context_section_description: Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the semifinals.
caption: Yevgeniya Polyakova was one of the fastest through the first round
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