The women's 60 metres

60 metres

60 metres is a sprint event in track and field athletics. It is a championship event for indoor championships, normally dominated by the best outdoor 100 metres runners. At outdoor venues it is a rare distance, at least for senior athletes...

competition at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships

2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships

The 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics was held between 12 and 14 March at the ASPIRE Dome in Doha, Qatar. The championships was the first of six IAAF World Athletics Series events to take place in 2010.-Bidding and organisation:...

 was held at the ASPIRE Dome

ASPIRE Academy for Sports Excellence

ASPIRE Dome is an indoor sporting arena located in Doha, Qatar, and the home of the ASPIRE Academy for Sports Excellence. The ASPIRE academy is a part of the Aspire Zone which also houses the Khalifa Stadium....

 on 12 and 14 March.

The race was expected to be a duel between LaVerne Jones-Ferrette and Carmelita Jeter

Carmelita Jeter

Carmelita Jeter is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 meters. She is the 2011 IAAF World Champion in the 100 metres.She won the 100 m bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and a gold at the World Athletics Final. she won a second World Championship bronze...

 who had run some of the fastest times for many seasons at 6.97 and 7.02 seconds, respectively. In the first round of competition Myriam Soumaré

Myriam Soumaré

Myriam Soumaré is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for France. At the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona, she won the gold medal in the 200 m meters with a time of 22.32 seconds in lane 8, shaving her previous personal best by 0.69s in doing so, and a bronze...

 was the surprise winner of the first heat, Jones-Ferrette clocked the fastest of the day in her heat with 7.14 seconds, while Veronica Campbell-Brown and Jeter topped their qualifiers comfortably. Ruddy Zang Milama of Gabon

Gabon

Gabon , officially the Gabonese Republic is a state in west central Africa sharing borders with Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, and with the Republic of the Congo curving around the east and south. The Gulf of Guinea, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean is to the west...

 was another surprise in the final heat as she beat the more experienced Sheri-Ann Brooks

Sheri-Ann Brooks

Sheri-Ann Brooks is a Jamaican sprinter, who specializes in the 100 metres.Brooks represented the Jamaica at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 4 x 100 metres relay together with Shelly-Ann Fraser, Aleen Bailey and Veronica Campbell-Brown...

 and Mikele Barber

Mikele Barber

Mikele Ronisse Barber is an American sprinter who won gold at the 4 x 100 meters relay event in 2007 World Championships in Athletics, in Osaka, Japan, and an individual gold medal at the 100 meters in 2007 Pan Am Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.She is the twin sister of Me'Lisa Barber, who has...

.

On the second day of competition, Campbell-Brown placed herself in contention for a medal with a 7.07 second run in the first semi-final, although Jones-Ferrette's time in the second semi was faster still. Brooks ran a personal best to beat Jeter in the last semi-final of the day. Among the other qualifiers, Zang Milama surprised further with 7.13-second national record

Gabonese records in athletics

The following are the national records in athletics in Gabon maintained by Gabon's national athletics federation: Fédération Gabonaise d'Athlétisme.-Men:-Women:-Men:-Women:-External links:...

 to become the first Gabonese athlete to reach an indoor final in any event. Barber and reigning European 60 m champion Yevgeniya Polyakova

Yevgeniya Polyakova

Yevgeniya Andreevna Polyakova is a Russian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.Polyakova represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 100 metres sprint. In her first round heat she placed first in front of Jade Bailey and Sherone Simpson in a time of 11.24 to...

 were among the casualties of the round.

In the final, Campbell-Brown ran a personal best of 7.00 seconds – the fastest winning time for 11 year – to upset the pre-race favourites. Finishing just after in 7.03 seconds, Jones-Ferrette settled for silver – the first global athletics medal for the United States Virgin Islands

United States Virgin Islands

The Virgin Islands of the United States are a group of islands in the Caribbean that are an insular area of the United States. The islands are geographically part of the Virgin Islands archipelago and are located in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles.The U.S...

. Jeter rounded out the top three with a run of 7.05 seconds, continuing her bronze medal run from the World Championships in Athletics. Zang Milama and Brooks shared fourth place having made significant career progressions over the distance. Chandra Sturrup

Chandra Sturrup

Chandra Sturrup is a Bahamian track and field sprint athlete. She is a 100 m specialist and the Bahamian national record holder for the women's 100 meter dash with a personal best of 10.84 seconds set in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 5, 2005...

's sixth place finish was notable in that, at 38-years-old, she was almost a decade older than the next oldest athlete to reach the final (Jeter).

Jones-Ferrette was later disqualified due to a doping

Doping

Doping is generally the practice of adding impurities to something.* Doping is a term for the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport or blood doping, often to improve athletic performance....

 infraction and banned for six months. The positions and medals were redistributed, with Jeter receiving the silver and Zang Milama taking the bronze medal.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Veronica Campbell-Brown	Carmelita Jeter Carmelita Jeter Carmelita Jeter is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 meters. She is the 2011 IAAF World Champion in the 100 metres.She won the 100 m bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and a gold at the World Athletics Final. she won a second World Championship bronze...	Ruddy Zang Milama

Records

Standing records prior to the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships
World record		6.92	Madrid Madrid Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan... , Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...	11 February 1993
Championship record		6.95	Toronto Toronto Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from... , Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...	12 March 1993
World Leading		6.97	Stuttgart Stuttgart Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million .... , Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	6 February 2010
African record		7.02	Ghent Ghent Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region of Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys and in the Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of... , Belgium Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...	12 February 1997
			Liévin Liévin Liévin is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France.-Overview:The city of Liévin is an old mining city of Pas-de-Calais. Near Lens, this modest-sized city nevertheless has several nursery schools, schools, colleges, a university, a swimming pool, a city library, a cultural and... , France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...	22 February 1998
Asian record		7.09	Stuttgart, Germany	17 February 1999
European record		6.92	Madrid, Spain	11 February 1993
				9 February 1995
North and Central American and Caribbean record		6.95	Toronto, Canada	12 March 1993
			Maebashi Maebashi, Gunma is the capital city of Gunma Prefecture, Japan.The city was founded on April 1, 1892, by the samurai Makuba Kawai.On December 5, 2004 the town of Ōgo, and the villages of Kasukawa and Miyagi, all from Seta District, were merged into Maebashi.... , Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...	7 March 1998
Oceanian Record		7.30	Boston Boston Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had... , United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	7 February 2009
South American record		7.26	Pocatello Pocatello, Idaho Pocatello is the county seat and largest city of Bannock County, with a small portion on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in neighboring Power County, in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Idaho. It is the principal city of the Pocatello metropolitan area, which encompasses all of Bannock... , United States	13 March 1981

Qualification standards

Indoor	Outdoor
7.37	11.25 (100 m)

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
March 12, 2010	18:25	Heats
March 14, 2010	16:00	Semifinals
March 14, 2010	18:10	Final

Heats

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	LaVerne Jones-Ferrette		7.14	Q
1	2	Veronica Campbell-Brown		7.21	Q
1	1	Myriam Soumaré Myriam Soumaré Myriam Soumaré is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for France. At the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona, she won the gold medal in the 200 m meters with a time of 22.32 seconds in lane 8, shaving her previous personal best by 0.69s in doing so, and a bronze...		7.22	Q
2	2	Chandra Sturrup Chandra Sturrup Chandra Sturrup is a Bahamian track and field sprint athlete. She is a 100 m specialist and the Bahamian national record holder for the women's 100 meter dash with a personal best of 10.84 seconds set in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 5, 2005...		7.22	Q
2	1	Yevgeniya Polyakova Yevgeniya Polyakova Yevgeniya Andreevna Polyakova is a Russian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.Polyakova represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 100 metres sprint. In her first round heat she placed first in front of Jade Bailey and Sherone Simpson in a time of 11.24 to...		7.26	Q
3	1	Tahesia Harrigan Tahesia Harrigan Tahesia Harrigan is a sprinter from the British Virgin Islands.Harrigan was born in the British Virgin Islands to Doris Harrigan. Harrigan's illustrious track and field career began in Tallahassee, Florida...		7.26	Q, SB
2	3	Véronique Mang Véronique Mang Véronique Mang is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for France.She arrived in France with her mother, brother and sister in 1995. She represented Cameroon until 2003 when she gained French citizenship. She started running at age 12 in France...		7.27	Q
1	4	Carmelita Jeter Carmelita Jeter Carmelita Jeter is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 meters. She is the 2011 IAAF World Champion in the 100 metres.She won the 100 m bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and a gold at the World Athletics Final. she won a second World Championship bronze...		7.30	Q
1	5	Ruddy Zang Milama		7.31	Q
2	5	Sheri-Ann Brooks Sheri-Ann Brooks Sheri-Ann Brooks is a Jamaican sprinter, who specializes in the 100 metres.Brooks represented the Jamaica at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 4 x 100 metres relay together with Shelly-Ann Fraser, Aleen Bailey and Veronica Campbell-Brown...		7.32	Q
2	4	Yuliya Katsura		7.34	Q
3	3	Olesya Povh		7.37	Q
3	5	Mikele Barber Mikele Barber Mikele Ronisse Barber is an American sprinter who won gold at the 4 x 100 meters relay event in 2007 World Championships in Athletics, in Osaka, Japan, and an individual gold medal at the 100 meters in 2007 Pan Am Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.She is the twin sister of Me'Lisa Barber, who has...		7.37	Q
3	2	Yasmin Kwadwo		7.38	Q
3	4	Digna Luz Murillo		7.38	Q
4	3	Lena Berntsson Lena Berntsson Lena Berntsson is a Swedish athlete who has competed internationally in both weightlifting and track and field...		7.39	Q
4	2	Maria Aurora Salvagno		7.41	Q
4	4	Ivet Lalova Ivet Lalova Ivet Lalova is a Bulgarian athlete who specialises in the 100 metres and 200 metres sprint events. She is the tenth fastest woman in 100 metres history, the fastest white woman in the world, and finished fourth in the 100 metres and fifth in the 200 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Her career...		7.42	Q
4	5	Lina Grinčikaitė Lina Grincikaite Lina Grinčikaitė is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Lithuania.Grinčikaitė represented Lithuania at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed third in her first round heat after Chandra Sturrup and Kelly-Ann Baptiste in a...		7.42	Q
5	3	Claire Brady Claire Brady (athlete) Claire Brady is an Irish short distance runner. Claire was born in Kildare and represents Celbridge Athletic Club in domestic competitions. Claire represented Dublin City University at a college level...		7.43	q
5	4	Emma Rienas		7.45	q
5	5	Folake Akinyemi		7.45	q
4	1	Joice Maduaka Joice Maduaka Joice Maduaka is a British athlete who competes over the 100, 200 and occasionally 400 metres. She holds the record for winning the most medals of any athlete at the British Athletics Championships, standing at 19 medals to date, including being the 100m champion 6 times, and the 200m champion...		7.46	Q
5	2	Mariya Ryemyen Mariya Ryemyen Mariya Ryemyen is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres. Ryemyen was part of the Ukrainian women's 4x100m that won gold during the during the 2010 European Athletics with 42.29 – the fastest time in the world that year.-Career:She finished seventh at the 2009 European U23...		7.46	q
6	2	Marika Popowicz Marika Popowicz Marika Popowicz is a Polish track and field athlete who specialises in sprinting.She made her first major appearances in 2005, finishing in sixth place in the 200 metres at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics and helping the Polish women's 4×100 metres relay team to a gold medal at the...		7.56
5	1	Tatjana Mitic		7.57
6	4	Virgil Hodge Virgil Hodge Virgil Hodge is a female sprinter from Saint Kitts and Nevis who specializes in the 200 metres. She was born in Basseterre....		7.61	SB
7	4	Gloria Diogo		7.89	SB
7	2	Norjannah H. Jamaludin		7.90	PB
6	1	Martina Pretelli		7.94
6	5	Yelena Ryabova		8.27
6	3	Hawwa Haneefa		8.31	PB
7	5	Angie Mangion		8.33	PB
7	1	Yvette Bennett		8.68	PB
	3	Ahamada Feta Ahamada Feta Ahamada Feta is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Comoros.Feta represented Comoros at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed sixth in her heat without advancing to the second round. She ran the distance in a time of...

Semifinals

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	LaVerne Jones-Ferrette		7.05	Q
1	1	Veronica Campbell-Brown		7.07	Q, SB
2	1	Ruddy Zang Milama		7.13	Q, NR Gabonese records in athletics The following are the national records in athletics in Gabon maintained by Gabon's national athletics federation: Fédération Gabonaise d'Athlétisme.-Men:-Women:-Men:-Women:-External links:...
1	3	Sheri-Ann Brooks Sheri-Ann Brooks Sheri-Ann Brooks is a Jamaican sprinter, who specializes in the 100 metres.Brooks represented the Jamaica at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 4 x 100 metres relay together with Shelly-Ann Fraser, Aleen Bailey and Veronica Campbell-Brown...		7.14	Q, PB
2	3	Carmelita Jeter Carmelita Jeter Carmelita Jeter is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 meters. She is the 2011 IAAF World Champion in the 100 metres.She won the 100 m bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and a gold at the World Athletics Final. she won a second World Championship bronze...		7.15	Q
2	2	Chandra Sturrup Chandra Sturrup Chandra Sturrup is a Bahamian track and field sprint athlete. She is a 100 m specialist and the Bahamian national record holder for the women's 100 meter dash with a personal best of 10.84 seconds set in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 5, 2005...		7.20	Q, SB
3	3	Myriam Soumaré Myriam Soumaré Myriam Soumaré is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for France. At the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona, she won the gold medal in the 200 m meters with a time of 22.32 seconds in lane 8, shaving her previous personal best by 0.69s in doing so, and a bronze...		7.21	q
3	1	Tahesia Harrigan Tahesia Harrigan Tahesia Harrigan is a sprinter from the British Virgin Islands.Harrigan was born in the British Virgin Islands to Doris Harrigan. Harrigan's illustrious track and field career began in Tallahassee, Florida...		7.22	q, SB
3	2	Mikele Barber Mikele Barber Mikele Ronisse Barber is an American sprinter who won gold at the 4 x 100 meters relay event in 2007 World Championships in Athletics, in Osaka, Japan, and an individual gold medal at the 100 meters in 2007 Pan Am Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.She is the twin sister of Me'Lisa Barber, who has...		7.24
4	2	Yevgeniya Polyakova Yevgeniya Polyakova Yevgeniya Andreevna Polyakova is a Russian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres.Polyakova represented Russia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing competing at the 100 metres sprint. In her first round heat she placed first in front of Jade Bailey and Sherone Simpson in a time of 11.24 to...		7.24
4	1	Véronique Mang Véronique Mang Véronique Mang is a track and field sprint athlete, competing internationally for France.She arrived in France with her mother, brother and sister in 1995. She represented Cameroon until 2003 when she gained French citizenship. She started running at age 12 in France...		7.28
4	3	Digna Luz Murillo		7.33
5	2	Lina Grinčikaitė Lina Grincikaite Lina Grinčikaitė is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Lithuania.Grinčikaitė represented Lithuania at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 100 metres sprint and placed third in her first round heat after Chandra Sturrup and Kelly-Ann Baptiste in a...		7.34
5	1	Joice Maduaka Joice Maduaka Joice Maduaka is a British athlete who competes over the 100, 200 and occasionally 400 metres. She holds the record for winning the most medals of any athlete at the British Athletics Championships, standing at 19 medals to date, including being the 100m champion 6 times, and the 200m champion...		7.35
5	3	Yuliya Katsura		7.38
6	1	Emma Rienas		7.38
7	1	Yasmin Kwadwo		7.39
6	3	Claire Brady Claire Brady (athlete) Claire Brady is an Irish short distance runner. Claire was born in Kildare and represents Celbridge Athletic Club in domestic competitions. Claire represented Dublin City University at a college level...		7.40
6	2	Ivet Lalova Ivet Lalova Ivet Lalova is a Bulgarian athlete who specialises in the 100 metres and 200 metres sprint events. She is the tenth fastest woman in 100 metres history, the fastest white woman in the world, and finished fourth in the 100 metres and fifth in the 200 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Her career...		7.41
7	3	Mariya Ryemyen Mariya Ryemyen Mariya Ryemyen is a Ukrainian sprint athlete who specializes in the 100 metres. Ryemyen was part of the Ukrainian women's 4x100m that won gold during the during the 2010 European Athletics with 42.29 – the fastest time in the world that year.-Career:She finished seventh at the 2009 European U23...		7.41
7	3	Lena Berntsson Lena Berntsson Lena Berntsson is a Swedish athlete who has competed internationally in both weightlifting and track and field...		7.41
7	2	Olesya Povh		7.45
8	2	Folake Akinyemi		7.47
8	1	Maria Aurora Salvagno		7.49

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Veronica Campbell-Brown		7.00	PB
	Carmelita Jeter Carmelita Jeter Carmelita Jeter is an American sprinter who specializes in the 100 meters. She is the 2011 IAAF World Champion in the 100 metres.She won the 100 m bronze at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics and a gold at the World Athletics Final. she won a second World Championship bronze...		7.05
	Ruddy Zang Milama		7.14
4	Sheri-Ann Brooks Sheri-Ann Brooks Sheri-Ann Brooks is a Jamaican sprinter, who specializes in the 100 metres.Brooks represented the Jamaica at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She competed at the 4 x 100 metres relay together with Shelly-Ann Fraser, Aleen Bailey and Veronica Campbell-Brown...		7.14	PB
5	Chandra Sturrup Chandra Sturrup Chandra Sturrup is a Bahamian track and field sprint athlete. She is a 100 m specialist and the Bahamian national record holder for the women's 100 meter dash with a personal best of 10.84 seconds set in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 5, 2005...		7.16	SB
6	Tahesia Harrigan Tahesia Harrigan Tahesia Harrigan is a sprinter from the British Virgin Islands.Harrigan was born in the British Virgin Islands to Doris Harrigan. Harrigan's illustrious track and field career began in Tallahassee, Florida...		7.17	SB
7	Myriam Soumaré Myriam Soumaré Myriam Soumaré is a track and field sprint athlete, who competes internationally for France. At the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona, she won the gold medal in the 200 m meters with a time of 22.32 seconds in lane 8, shaving her previous personal best by 0.69s in doing so, and a bronze...		7.29
DQ	LaVerne Jones-Ferrette		(7.03)