1978 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres

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

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Aleksandr Aksinin	Soviet Union	6.71	Q
2	3	Petar Petrov	Bulgaria	6.72	Q
3	1	Vladimir Ignatenko	Soviet Union	6.74	Q
3	4	Nikolay Kolesnikov	Soviet Union	6.74	Q
5	3	Giovanni Grazioli	Italy	6.75	Q
6	2	Bernard Petitbois	France	6.76	Q
6	4	Massimo Clementoni	Italy	6.76	Q
8	2	Marian Woronin	Poland	6.79	q
9	1	Christer Garpenborg	Sweden	6.83	Q
10	4	Gilles Échevin	France	6.84	q
11	3	Jan Alończyk	Poland	6.85	q
12	2	Ronald Desruelles	Belgium	6.86	q
13	3	Josep Carbonell	Spain	6.88
14	4	Ángel Ibáñez	Spain	6.89
15	1	Ján Chebeň	Czechoslovakia	6.91
16	1	Vincenzo Guerini	Italy	6.91
17	1	Pierrick Thessard	France	6.95

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

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Petar Petrov	Bulgaria	6.67	Q
2	1	Nikolay Kolesnikov	Soviet Union	6.69	Q
3	1	Aleksandr Aksinin	Soviet Union	6.70	Q
4	1	Marian Woronin	Poland	6.71	Q
5	2	Giovanni Grazioli	Italy	6.74	Q
6	2	Bernard Petitbois	France	6.77	Q
7	1	Massimo Clementoni	Italy	6.78
7	1	Gilles Échevin	France	6.78
7	2	Christer Garpenborg	Sweden	6.78
10	2	Vladimir Ignatenko	Soviet Union	6.79
11	1	Ronald Desruelles	Belgium	6.80
12	2	Jan Alończyk	Poland	6.81