| Athletics 60 metres hurdles | |
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.jpg) Athletes running the 60m hurdles at the BW Bank Meeting inKarlsruhe, 2010 | |
| World records | |
| Men |  Grant Holloway 7.27 A (2024) |
| Women |  Devynne Charlton 7.65 (2024) |
| World Indoor Championship records | |
| Men | Grant Holloway 7.29 (2022, 2024) |
| Women | Devynne Charlton 7.65 (2024) |
60 metres hurdles is a distance inhurdling which is generally run in indoor competitions. It is equivalent with the first 5 hurdles of a standard outdoor hurdle race. The current women's and men's world records are 7.65 seconds (Devynne Charlton) and 7.27 seconds (Grant Holloway), respectively.
Updated March 2025.[1]
| Area | Men | Women | ||||
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| Time | Athlete | Nation | Time | Athlete | Nation | |
| Africa | 7.52 | Shaun Bownes |  South Africa | 7.75 | Tobi Amusan |  Nigeria |
| Asia | 7.41 | Liu Xiang |  China | 7.82 | Olga Shishigina |  Kazakhstan |
| Europe | 7.30 | Colin Jackson |  Great Britain | 7.67 | Ditaji Kambundji |  Switzerland |
| North, Central America and Caribbean | 7.27A | Grant Holloway |  United States | 7.65 | Devynne Charlton | Bahamas |
| Oceania | 7.73 | Kyle Vander-Kuyp |  Australia | 7.73 | Sally Pearson | Australia |
| South America | 7.60 | Márcio de Souza Gabriel Constantino |  Brazil | 7.91 | Yvette Lewis |  Panama |
Indoor results only
| Tables show data for two definitions of "Top 25" - the top 2560m hurdles times and the top 25athletes: |
| - denotes top performance forathletes in the top 2560m hurdles times |
| - denotes lesser performances, still in the top 2560m hurdles times, by repeat athletes |
| - denotes top performance (only) for other top 25athletes who fall outside the top 25 60m hurdles times |
| Ath.# | Perf.# | Time (s) | Athlete | Nation | Date | Place | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 7.27A | Grant Holloway | United States | 16 February 2024 | Albuquerque | [4] |
| 2 | 7.29 | Holloway #2 | 24 February 2021 | Madrid | [5] | ||
| Holloway #3 | 20 March 2022 | Belgrade | [6] | ||||
| Holloway #4 | 2 March 2024 | Glasgow | [7] | ||||
| 2 | 5 | 7.30 | Colin Jackson | Great Britain | 6 March 1994 | Sindelfingen | |
| 6 | 7.32 | Holloway #5 | 9 February 2021 | Liévin | |||
| Holloway #6 | 24 February 2021 | Madrid | |||||
| Holloway #7 | 10 February 2024 | Liévin | [8] | ||||
| Holloway #8 | 2 March 2024 | Glasgow | [9] | ||||
| 3 | 10 | 7.33 | Dayron Robles |  Cuba | 8 February 2008 | Düsseldorf | |
| 11 | 7.34 | Robles #2 | 14 March 2010 | Doha | |||
| 12 | 7.35 | Holloway #9 | 9 March 2019 | Birmingham | |||
| Holloway #10 | 24 January 2021 | Fayetteville | |||||
| Holloway #11 | 17 February 2022 | Liévin | |||||
| Holloway #12 | 25 February 2023 | Birmingham | [10] | ||||
| Holloway #13 | 4 February 2024 | Boston | [11] | ||||
| 4 | 17 | 7.36 | Greg Foster | United States | 16 January 1987 | Los Angeles | |
| 17 | 7.36 | Jackson #2 | 12 February 1994 | Glasgow | |||
| 4 | 17 | 7.36 | Allen Johnson | United States | 6 March 2004 | Budapest | |
| 17 | 7.36 | Robles #3 | 2 February 2008 | Stuttgart | |||
| 4 | 17 | 7.36 | Terrence Trammell | United States | 14 March 2010 | Doha | |
| 17 | 7.36 | Holloway #14 | 13 February 2025 | Liévin | [12] | ||
| Holloway #15 | 22 February 2025 | New York City | [13] | ||||
| 7 | 24 | 7.37 | Roger Kingdom | United States | 8 March 1989 | Piraeus | |
| Anier García | Cuba | 9 February 2000 | Piraeus | ||||
| Tony Dees | United States | 18 February 2000 | Chemnitz | ||||
| 24 | 7.37 | Trammell #2 | 1 March 2009 | Boston | |||
| 7 | 24 | 7.37 | David Oliver | United States | 5 February 2011 | Stuttgart | |
| 24 | 7.37 | Holloway #16 | 6 February 2022 | New York City | |||
| Holloway #17 | 27 February 2022 | Spokane | |||||
| Holloway #18 | 4 February 2024 | Boston | |||||
| 11 | 7.38 | Mark Crear | United States | 8 March 1998 | Sindelfingen | ||
| Reggie Torian | United States | 27 February 1999 | Atlanta | ||||
| Trey Cunningham | United States | 12 March 2022 | Birmingham | [14] | |||
| Dylan Beard | United States | 8 February 2025 | New York City | [15] | |||
| 15 | 7.39 | Daniel Roberts | United States | 22 February 2023 | Madrid | [16] | |
| Jakub Szymański |  Poland | 8 February 2025 | Łódź | [17] | |||
| 17 | 7.40A | Dexter Faulk | United States | 25 February 2012 | Albuquerque | ||
| 7.40 | Yoel Hernández | Cuba | 16 February 2000 | Madrid | |||
| 19 | 7.41 | Mark McKoy |  Canada | 14 March 1993 | Toronto | ||
| Courtney Hawkins | United States | 12 March 1995 | Barcelona | ||||
| Falk Balzer |  Germany | 29 January 1999 | Chemnitz | ||||
| Liu Xiang | China | 18 February 2012 | Birmingham | ||||
| Dimitri Bascou |  France | 13 February 2016 | Berlin | ||||
| Omar McLeod |  Jamaica | 20 March 2016 | Portland | ||||
| Jason Joseph | Switzerland | 5 March 2023 | Istanbul | [18] |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States (USA) | 13 | 5 | 5 | 23 |
| 2 | Great Britain (GBR) | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 3 | Cuba (CUB) | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 4 | France (FRA) | 1 | 5 | 5 | 11 |
| 5 | China (CHN) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 6 | Canada (CAN) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Jamaica (JAM) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 8 |  Soviet Union (URS) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 9 |  Italy (ITA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Spain (ESP) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 11 | Germany (GER) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Latvia (LAT) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Russia (RUS) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| South Africa (RSA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (14 entries) | 21 | 21 | 23 | 65 | |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States (USA) | 7 | 5 | 3 | 15 |
| 2 | Bahamas (BAH) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Soviet Union (URS) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
| 4 | France (FRA) | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 |
| 5 | Jamaica (JAM) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 | Canada (CAN) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | Australia (AUS) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Switzerland (SUI) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 10 | Cuba (CUB) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
 East Germany (GDR) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 12 |  Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Ireland (IRL) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 14 | Spain (ESP) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 15 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 16 |  Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 17 | Nigeria (NGR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 18 |  Belarus (BLR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Russia (RUS) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Slovenia (SLO) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Sweden (SWE) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (23 entries) | 21 | 21 | 21 | 63 | |
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