1979 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres

The men's 60 metres event at the 1979 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 24 February in Vienna.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Marian Woronin Poland	Leszek Dunecki Poland	Petar Petrov Bulgaria

Results

Heats

First 3 from each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Marian Woronin	Poland	6.62	Q
2	2	Aleksandr Aksinin	Soviet Union	6.71	Q
3	1	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	6.72	Q
4	3	Nikolay Kolesnikov	Soviet Union	6.74	Q
5	2	Petar Petrov	Bulgaria	6.76	Q
6	1	Franco Fähndrich	Switzerland	6.77	Q, SB
7	1	Klaus-Dieter Kurrat	East Germany	6.78	q
7	3	Zenon Licznerski	Poland	6.78	Q
9	3	Giovanni Grazioli	Italy	6.80	Q
10	3	Olaf Prenzler	East Germany	6.81	q
11	1	Ronald Desruelles	Belgium	6.84	q
12	2	Ján Chebeň	Czechoslovakia	6.85	Q, SB
13	2	Krasimir Sarbakov	Bulgaria	6.86	PB
14	3	Franco Zucchini	Italy	6.87	PB
15	1	Gilles Échevin	France	6.89	SB
16	2	Knut Stokke	Norway	6.92	SB

Semifinals

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

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Marian Woronin	Poland	6.62	Q
2	1	Petar Petrov	Bulgaria	6.64	Q
3	2	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	6.68	Q
4	2	Aleksandr Aksinin	Soviet Union	6.70	Q
5	1	Nikolay Kolesnikov	Soviet Union	6.71	q, SB
6	1	Klaus-Dieter Kurrat	East Germany	6.72	q
7	2	Olaf Prenzler	East Germany	6.75	PB
8	2	Zenon Licznerski	Poland	6.77	SB
9	1	Giovanni Grazioli	Italy	6.78	SB
9	2	Franco Fähndrich	Switzerland	6.78
11	2	Ronald Desruelles	Belgium	6.81	SB
12	1	Ján Chebeň	Czechoslovakia	6.86

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	3	Marian Woronin	Poland	6.57	=AR, CR
	2	Leszek Dunecki	Poland	6.62	PB
	6	Petar Petrov	Bulgaria	6.63	SB
4	1	Aleksandr Aksinin	Soviet Union	6.66	SB
5	5	Klaus-Dieter Kurrat	East Germany	6.67	SB
	4	Nikolay Kolesnikov	Soviet Union	DNF