1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 60 metres

The women's 60 metres event at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 7.

Medalists edit

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Gail Devers United States	Chandra Sturrup Bahamas	Frédérique Bangué France

First two of each heat (Q) and next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	Chandra Sturrup	Bahamas	7.18	Q, PB
2	6	Gail Devers	United States	7.21	Q
3	4	Frédérique Bangué	France	7.24	Q
4	1	Ekaterini Thanou	Greece	7.27	Q
4	2	Irina Privalova	Russia	7.27	Q
4	3	Chioma Ajunwa	Nigeria	7.27	Q
4	5	Odiah Sidibé	France	7.27	Q
8	1	Marcia Richardson	Great Britain	7.29	Q, PB
8	6	Endurance Ojokolo	Nigeria	7.29	Q
10	7	Nadezhda Roshchupkina	Russia	7.30	Q
11	7	Maria Tsoni	Greece	7.32	q, PB
12	2	Jerneja Perc	Slovenia	7.33	Q
13	6	Sanna Hernesniemi	Finland	7.34	q
14	4	Aleisha Latimer	United States	7.38	Q
15	3	Eldece Clarke	Bahamas	7.39	Q
15	5	Hanitriniaina Rakotondrabe	Madagascar	7.39	Q
17	7	Sylvie Mballa Éloundou	Cameroon	7.41	q
18	3	Beverly Kinch	Great Britain	7.42	q
19	1	Saša Prokofijev	Slovenia	7.43
20	5	Karin Knoll	Austria	7.44
21	2	Anzhela Kravchenko	Ukraine	7.47
21	4	Kim Gevaert	Belgium	7.47
23	6	Sandrine Hennart	Belgium	7.51
24	6	Elena Sordelli	Italy	7.57
25	7	Ameerah Bello	United States Virgin Islands	7.60
26	2	Tatiana Orcy	Brazil	7.62
27	2	Giada Gallina	Italy	7.64
27	6	Éva Barati	Hungary	7.64
29	4	Elena Bobrovskaya	Kyrgyzstan	7.66
30	4	Christina Schnohr	Denmark	7.70
31	3	Aksel Gürcan	Turkey	7.71
31	5	Laure Kuetey	Benin	7.71
33	1	Elma Posadas	Philippines	7.73
34	5	Deirdre Caruana	Malta	8.06
35	7	Agnes Khafaja	Lebanon	8.35
	1	Merlene Frazer	Jamaica	DNS
	3	Michelle Freeman	Jamaica	DNS
	3	Heather Samuel	Antigua and Barbuda	DNS

First 2 of each semifinal (Q) qualified directly for the final.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Irina Privalova	Russia	7.08	Q
2	3	Chandra Sturrup	Bahamas	7.10	Q, PB
3	3	Chioma Ajunwa	Nigeria	7.12	Q
4	1	Gail Devers	United States	7.15	Q
5	1	Ekaterini Thanou	Greece	7.15	=NR
6	2	Frédérique Bangué	France	7.16	Q
7	3	Odiah Sidibé	France	7.20
8	2	Endurance Ojokolo	Nigeria	7.24	Q
9	1	Jerneja Perc	Slovenia	7.28
9	3	Hanitriniaina Rakotondrabe	Madagascar	7.28	PB
11	2	Nadezhda Roshchupkina	Russia	7.29
12	2	Marcia Richardson	Great Britain	7.30
13	2	Maria Tsoni	Greece	7.32
13	3	Aleisha Latimer	United States	7.32
15	2	Sanna Hernesniemi	Finland	7.39
16	3	Beverly Kinch	Great Britain	7.41
17	1	Eldece Clarke	Bahamas	7.49
18	1	Sylvie Mballa Éloundou	Cameroon	7.50

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	2	Gail Devers	United States	7.06
	4	Chandra Sturrup	Bahamas	7.15
	5	Frédérique Bangué	France	7.17
4	6	Chioma Ajunwa	Nigeria	7.19
5	1	Endurance Ojokolo	Nigeria	7.38
6	3	Irina Privalova	Russia	7.88