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Date: 19 October 1968 / 20 October 1968
| Rank | Name | Nation | Distance |
| 1 | Richard Fosbury | USA | 2.24m [7' 4 ¼"] |
| 2 | Edward Caruthers | USA | 2.22m [7' 3 ½"] |
| 3 | Valentin Gavrilov | URS | 2.20m [7' 2 ½"] |
| 4 | Valery Skvortsov | URS | 2.16m [7' 1"] |
| 5 | Reynaldo Brown | USA | 2.14m [7' ¼"] |
| 6 | Giacomo Crosa | ITA | 2.14m [7' ¼"] |
| 7 | Gunther Spielvogel | FRG | 2.14m [7' ¼"] |
| 8 | Lawrence Peckham | AUS | 2.12m [6' 11 ½"] |
| 9 | Ingomar Sieghart | FRG | 2.09m [6' 10 ¼"] |
| 9 | Robert Sainte-Rose | FRA | 2.09m [6' 10 ¼"] |
| 11 | Luis Garriga | ESP | 2.09m [6' 10 ¼"] |
| 12 | Ahmed Senoussi | CHA | 2.09m [6' 10 ¼"] |
| 13 | Miodrag Todosijevic | YUG | 2.06m [6' 9"] |
| Qualifying | |||
| 14 | Thomas Zacharias | FRG | 2.09m [6' 10 ¼"] |
| 15 | Kuniyoshi Sugioka | JPN | 2.09m [6' 10 ¼"] |
| 16 | Victor Bolshov | URS | 2.09m [6' 10 ¼"] |
| 17 | Bhim Singh | IND | 2.09m [6' 10 ¼"] |
| 18 | Jaroslav Alexa | TCH | 2.09m [6' 10 ¼"] |
| 18 | Junior Elliott | FRA | 2.09m [6' 10 ¼"] |
| 20 | Ioannis Koussoulas | GRE | 2.09m [6' 10 ¼"] |
| 21 | Mohamet Idriss | CHA | 2.06m [6' 9"] |
| 22 | Anthony Sneazwell | AUS | 2.06m [6' 9"] |
| 22 | Kenneth Lundmark | SWE | 2.06m [6' 9"] |
| 24 | Rudolf Hubner | TCH | 2.06m [6' 9"] |
| 25 | Teodoro Palacios | GUA | 2.06m [6' 9"] |
| 26 | Peter Boyce | AUS | 2.06m [6' 9"] |
| 27 | Jon Olaffson | ISL | 2.06m [6' 9"] |
| 28 | Michel Portmann | SUI | 2.06m [6' 9"] |
| 29 | Fernando Abugattas | PER | 2.03m [6' 8"] |
| 30 | Fernand Tovondray | MAD | 2.03m [6' 8"] |
| 31 | Thomas Wieser | SUI | 2.03m [6' 8"] |
| 32 | Csaba Dosza | ROU | 2.03m [6' 8"] |
| 33 | Polde Milek | YUG | 2.00m [6' 6 ¾"] |
| 33 | Wilfriedt Wedmann | CAN | 2.00m [6' 6 ¾"] |
| 35 | Roberto Abugattas | PER | 2.00m [6' 6 ¾"] |
| 36 | Anthony Balfour | BAH | 1.95m [6' 4 ¾"] |
| 37 | Hong Son-Long | TPE | 1.95m [6' 4 ¾"] |
| 38 | Nurullab Candan | TUR | 1.95m [6' 4 ¾"] |
| 39 | Marconi Turay | SLE | 1.90m [6' 2 ¾"] |
| Did not start | |||
| Bo-Sven Jonsson | SWE | ||
| Jan-Erik Dahlgren | SWE | ||
| Ababacar Ly | SEN | ||
| Freddy Herbrandt | BEL | ||
| Samuel Igun | NGR | ||