| Final | | time | | F | | 1. Mike McFarlane |  Great Britain | 6.61s | | 2 | | 2. Antoine Richard |  France | 6.63s | | 5 | | 3. Ronald Desruelles |  Belgium | 6.64s | | 3 | | 4. Antonio Ullo |  Italy | 6.66s | | 4 | | 5. Attila Kovács |  Hungary | 6.69s | | 6 | | 6. František Ptáčník |  Czechoslovakia | 6.71s | | 1 |
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| | First 3 from each Semi advanced to Final. |
| Semi 1 | | time | | | Semi 2 | | time | | | 1. Ronald Desruelles | Belgium | 6.62s | Q | | 3. Mike McFarlane | Great Britain | 6.63s | Q | | 7. Attila Kovács | Hungary | 6.67s | Q | | 8. Christian Haas |  West Germany | 6.68s | | | 9. Arkadiusz Janiak |  Poland | 6.70s | | | 10.Pierfrancesco Pavoni | Italy | 6.73s | |
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| 1. Antonio Ullo | Italy | 6.62s | Q | | 4. Antoine Richard | France | 6.64s | Q | | 5. František Ptáčník | Czechoslovakia | 6.64s | Q | | 6. Steffen Bringmann |  East Germany | 6.65s | | | 11.Hans Fritzsche | West Germany | 6.79s | |
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| Heat 1 | | time | | | 3. Mike McFarlane | Great Britain | 6.70s | Q | | 12.Hans Fritzsche | West Germany | 6.76s | Q | | 12.Josef Lomický | Czechoslovakia | 6.76s | | | 16.Aleksandr Shumilov |  Soviet Union | 6.77s | | | 22.Angelos Angelidis |  Cyprus | 6.97s | |
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| Heat 2 | | time | | | 3. František Ptáčník | Czechoslovakia | 6.70s | Q | | 3. Attila Kovács | Hungary | 6.70s | Q | | 7. Antonio Ullo | Italy | 6.71s | q | | 21.Pedro Agostinho |  Portugal | 6.96s | | | 23.Tore Bergan |  Norway | 7.02s | |
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| Heat 3 | | time | | | 2. Antoine Richard | France | 6.69s | Q | | 3. Steffen Bringmann | East Germany | 6.70s | Q | | 12.Lincoln Asquith | Great Britain | 6.76s | | | 24.Luís Cunha | Portugal | 7.08s | | | -. Sotirios Tefas |  Greece | DNS | |
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| Heat 4 | | time | | | 8. Pierfrancesco Pavoni | Italy | 6.72s | Q | | 10.José Javier Arqués |  Spain | 6.73s | Q | | 11.Christian Haas | West Germany | 6.73s | q | | 12.Bruno Marie-Rose | France | 6.76s | | | 19.Kosmas Stratos | Greece | 6.83s | |
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