Heats

First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Valentin Atanasov	Bulgaria	6.65	Q
2	3	Bernard Petitbois	France	6.67	Q
3	2	Marian Woronin	Poland	6.68	Q
4	2	José Javier Arqués	Spain	6.70	q, NR
5	3	Harry King	Great Britain	6.71	Q
5	4	Giovanni Grazioli	Italy	6.71	Q
5	4	Josep Carbonell	Spain	6.71	Q
8	1	Christian Haas	West Germany	6.73	Q
8	3	Ingo Froböse	West Germany	6.73	q
10	1	Pierfrancesco Pavoni	Italy	6.74	Q
11	3	Aleksandr Yevgenyev	Soviet Union	6.75	q
12	4	Antoine Richard	France	6.76	q
13	1	Ronald Desruelles	Belgium	6.76
14	1	Aleksandr Aksinin	Soviet Union	6.80
15	4	Franco Fähndrich	Switzerland	6.81
16	2	Gianfranco Lazzer	Italy	6.83
16	3	László Babály	Hungary	6.83
18	1	Roland Jokl	Austria	6.86
18	2	Josef Lomický	Czechoslovakia	6.86

Semifinals

First 3 from each semifinal qualified directly (Q) for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Bernard Petitbois	France	6.63	Q
2	1	Valentin Atanasov	Bulgaria	6.64	Q
3	1	José Javier Arqués	Spain	6.66	Q, NR
4	2	Marian Woronin	Poland	6.68	Q
5	2	Pierfrancesco Pavoni	Italy	6.69	Q
6	2	Josep Carbonell	Spain	6.69
7	1	Christian Haas	West Germany	6.71	Q
8	2	Ingo Froböse	West Germany	6.72
9	2	Harry King	Great Britain	6.72
10	1	Aleksandr Yevgenyev	Soviet Union	6.73
11	1	Antoine Richard	France	6.73
12	1	Giovanni Grazioli	Italy	6.74

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Marian Woronin	Poland	6.61
	Valentin Atanasov	Bulgaria	6.62
	Bernard Petitbois	France	6.66
4	Pierfrancesco Pavoni	Italy	6.68
5	Christian Haas	West Germany	6.69
6	José Javier Arqués	Spain	6.71