1988 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres

The men's 60 metres event at the 1988 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 5 March.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Linford Christie Great Britain	Ronald Desruelles Belgium	Valentin Atanasov Bulgaria

Results

Heats

First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Sven Matthes	East Germany	6.65	Q
1	2	Ronald Desruelles	Belgium	6.65	Q
1	3	Anri Grigorov	Bulgaria	6.65	Q
4	1	Andreas Berger	Austria	6.67	Q
4	3	Linford Christie	Great Britain	6.67	Q
4	4	Valentin Atanasov	Bulgaria	6.67	Q
4	4	Pierfrancesco Pavoni	Italy	6.67	Q
8	1	Barrington Williams	Great Britain	6.68	q
9	2	Antonio Ullo	Italy	6.69	Q
10	4	László Karaffa	Hungary	6.70	q
11	3	Stephan Schütz	East Germany	6.76	q
12	1	José Javier Arqués	Spain	6.77	q
13	2	Jiří Valík	Czechoslovakia	6.78
14	3	Endre Havas	Hungary	6.84
15	2	Daniel Darien	France	6.85
16	1	Fritz Heer	West Germany	6.87
17	2	Sandor Tóth	Hungary	6.91
18	4	Luís Cunha	Portugal	7.00

Semifinals

First 3 from each semifinal qualified directly (Q) for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Linford Christie	Great Britain	6.55	Q
2	2	Sven Matthes	East Germany	6.60	Q
3	1	Ronald Desruelles	Belgium	6.61	Q
4	1	Valentin Atanasov	Bulgaria	6.61	Q
5	1	Pierfrancesco Pavoni	Italy	6.62	Q
5	2	Antonio Ullo	Italy	6.62	Q
5	2	Andreas Berger	Austria	6.62
5	2	Anri Grigorov	Bulgaria	6.62
9	1	Barrington Williams	Great Britain	6.68
10	1	László Karaffa	Hungary	6.68
11	2	José Javier Arqués	Spain	6.70
12	1	Stephan Schütz	East Germany	6.71

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	5	Linford Christie	Great Britain	6.57
	2	Ronald Desruelles	Belgium	6.60
	3	Valentin Atanasov	Bulgaria	6.60
4	4	Sven Matthes	East Germany	6.60
5	6	Pierfrancesco Pavoni	Italy	6.64
6	1	Antonio Ullo	Italy	6.67