60m Hurdles Record Tables

60m Hurdles Records

The 60m hurdles is a race only contested indoors. It has been run in every IAAF World Indoor Championships and every World Masters Indoor Championships.

There are five hurdles. The height for men starts at 99.1cm. It is reduced to 91.4cm at age 50, to 84cm at age 60, 76.2cm at 70 and 68.6cm for 80+. Women start at a hurdle height of 84cm, which is reduced to 76.2cm at age 40, then 68.6cm for 60+.

It is not a record category maintained at the Centre level, having been added to the New Zealand record lists only recently.

Where Centre records are better performances than National or World records, this likely indicates that the athlete either failed to apply for the record within the application window or was unable to meet the stricter paperwork requirements. More recent records could still be in the processing stage at World or National level.

Note: Athletes move. Wellington records applicable to athletes registered to Wellington at time of performance. Island championship records applicable to athletes registered to that island at time of performance. NZ records applicable to athletes registered appropriately to NZMA at time of performance. Oceania championship records applicable to athletes registered to OMA at time of performance. World records quote national affiliation of athlete at time of performance.

Prior to the September 2016 agreement on shared membership between Athletics New Zealand and New Zealand Masters Athletics, only those masters athletes who had joined NZMA were eligible to claim records. Now domestic Masters Records can be claimed by both ANZ and NZMA members.

	NZ Indoor	World Indoor
M35	no record	7.40 Colin Jackson GBR (2002)
M40	no record	7.85 Vincent Clarico FRA (2006)
M45	no record	8.15 Derek Pye USA (2017)
M50	10.61 Stephen Te Whaiti (2017)	8.24 Derek Pye USA (2018)
M55	no record	8.56 Karl Smith JAM (2017)
M60	no record	8.85 Courtland Gray USA (2004)
M65	no record	9.17 Ty Brown USA (2010)
M70	no record	9.44 Ty Brown USA (2015)
M75	no record	10.09 Melvin Larsen USA (2001)
M80	15.18 Jim Blair (2012)	10.86 Anthony Bowman GBR (2016)
M85	20.81 Jim Blair (2017)	13.16 Bruno Sobrero ITA (2006)
M90	no record	15.84 Ralph Maxwell USA (2010)
	NZ Indoor	World Indoor

	NZ Indoor	World Indoor
W35	no record	7.74 Gail Devers USA (2003)
W40	no record	8.71 Monica Pellegrinelli SUI (2006)
W45	no record	8.79 Christine Mueller SUI (2004)
W50	no record	9.26 Christine Mueller SUI (2009)
W55	no record	9.48 Neringa Jakstiene USA (2019)
W60	no record	9.80 Jane Horder GBR (2018)
W65	no record	10.29 Jane Horder GBR(2022)
W70	no record	11.37 Asta Larsson SWE (2002)
W75	no record	13.17 Riet Jonkers-Slegers NED (2019)
W80	no record	13.76 Irene Obera USA (2015)
W85	no record	18.73 Florence Meiler USA (2022)
	NZ Indoor	World Indoor

World Records from World Masters Athletics as at 3 February 2023.

Oceania Championship Records from Oceania Athletics as at September 2019.

NZ Records from NZ Masters Athletics as at 16 February 2023.

NZMA Championship Records from NZ Masters Athletics as at 16 February 2023.

South Island Championship Records from NZ Masters Athletics as at February 2023.

North Island Championship Records from NZ Masters Athletics as at January 2023.

Wellington Records as at 7 May 2023.