60 m, women, indoor

What to remember

Indoor arenas very rarely have room for a 100 m, so sprinters race 60 m instead, on lanes laid out in the middle of the field, away from the banked track that rings the venue. In Madrid on February 11, 1993, Russia's Irina Privalova covered that straight in 6.92 s, an average of 31.21 km/h (19.40 mph).

Over such a short distance the margins are tiny, and the start often decides everything. The 60 m also had its Olympic moment, as an event at the 1900 and 1904 Games.

Through most of the 1990s Privalova was one of the leading sprinters, with three European individual titles and three individual world medals. At the 1992 Olympics she won bronze in the 100 m and silver in the 4 × 100 m relay, and in 1993 she won a relay gold.