| Rankings | Height | | | 1. Ingomar Sieghart | West Germany | 2.06m | Q | | 2. Wolfgang Schillkowski | West Germany | 2.03m | Q | | 2. Valeriy Skvortsov | Soviet Union | 2.03m | Q | | 2. Valentin Gavrilov | Soviet Union | 2.03m | Q | | 2. Kjell-Åke Nilsson | Sweden | 2.03m | Q | | 2. Robert Sainte-Rose | France | 2.03m | Q | | 2. Bo Jonsson | Sweden | 2.03m | Q | | 2. Jan Dahlgren | Sweden | 2.03m | Q | | 2. János Medovarszki | Hungary | 2.03m | Q | | 2. Jacques Madubost | France | 2.03m | Q | | 2. Andrey Khmarskiy | Soviet Union | 2.03m | Q | | 2. Yevgeni Yordanov | Bulgaria | 2.03m | Q | | 2. Edward Czernik | Poland | 2.03m | Q | | eliminated | | 14.Sándor Noszály | Hungary | 2.00m | | | 15.Rudolf Hübner | Czechoslovakia | 2.00m | | | 16.Gilbert Vallaeys | France | 2.00m | | | 17.Werner Pfeil | East Germany | 2.00m | | | 18.Milan Haranta | Czechoslovakia | 2.00m | | | 19.Rudolf Baudis | Czechoslovakia | 2.00m | | | 20.Jón Þordur Ólafsson | Iceland | 1.95m | | | 21.Luis Garriga | Spain | 1.95m | | | 22.Erminio Azzaro | Italy | 1.95m | | | 23.Gunther Spielvogel | West Germany | 1.95m | | | 24.Ilia Mazniku | Albania | 1.85m | | | -. Yves Theisen | Belgium | DNS | |
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| European Ranking Pre-Budapest 1966 | Height | Rk. | | 1. Valeriy Skvortsov | Soviet Union | 2.21m | 3. | | 2. Edward Czernik | Poland | 2.16m | 4. | | 3. Andrey Khmarskiy | Soviet Union | 2.15m | 5. | | 4. Jacques Madubost | France | 2.15m | 1. | | 4. Robert Sainte-Rose | France | 2.15m | 2. | | 6. Valentin Gavrilov | Soviet Union | 2.14m | 7. | | 6. Werner Pfeil | East Germany | 2.14m | 17. | | 8. Ingomar Sieghart | West Germany | 2.13m | 8. | | 8. Gunther Spielvogel | West Germany | 2.13m | 23. | | 2 more athletes with 2.13m. |
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