1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres

The men's 60 metres event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 13 March in Sofia.^[1]^[2]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Valeriy Borzov Soviet Union	Jobst Hirscht West Germany	Manfred Kokot East Germany

First 4 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	6.8	Q
2	1	Vasilios Papageorgopoulos	Greece	6.8	Q
3	1	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	6.8	Q
4	1	Alain Sarteur	France	6.8	Q
5	1	Gernot Hirscht	West Germany	6.8
1	2	Manfred Kokot	East Germany	6.7	Q
2	2	Jobst Hirscht	West Germany	6.7	Q
3	2	Georgi Yovchev	Bulgaria	6.8	Q
4	2	Boris Izmestyev	Soviet Union	6.9	Q
5	2	Gert Herunter	Austria	6.9
1	3	Aleksandr Kornelyuk	Soviet Union	6.8	Q
2	3	Romain Roels	Belgium	6.9	Q
3	3	Barrie Kelly	Great Britain	6.9	Q
4	3	Petr Utekal	Czechoslovakia	7.0	Q
5	3	Fernando Escrivá	Spain	7.0
6	3	Georg Regner	Austria	7.1

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

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Manfred Kokot	East Germany	6.7	Q
2	1	Aleksandr Kornelyuk	Soviet Union	6.8	Q
3	1	Vasilios Papageorgopoulos	Greece	6.8	Q
4	1	Barrie Kelly	Great Britain	6.8
5	1	Romain Roels	Belgium	6.8
	1	Georgi Yovchev	Bulgaria	DQ
1	2	Jobst Hirscht	West Germany	6.7	Q
2	2	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	6.7	Q
3	2	Boris Izmestyev	Soviet Union	6.8	Q
4	2	Zenon Nowosz	Poland	6.9
5	2	Alain Sarteur	France	7.0
6	2	Petr Utekal	Czechoslovakia	7.0

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Valeriy Borzov	Soviet Union	6.6
	Jobst Hirscht	West Germany	6.7
	Manfred Kokot	East Germany	6.8
4	Boris Izmestyev	Soviet Union	6.8
5	Vasilios Papageorgopoulos	Greece	6.8
6	Aleksandr Kornelyuk	Soviet Union	6.9