| 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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