[4][5] He defeated compatriot Robert Sainte-Rose – the leading French athlete of the era – by count-back, as both cleared 2.12 m (6 ft 11+1⁄4 in).

This made Madubost the first Frenchman to win a field event at the championship, and he remains the sole French male athlete to win the European title in men's high jump (Anne-Marie Colchen won the women's event 20 years earlier).

[4][6] For his achievement he was given the 1966 medal of the Académie des sports (one of two from athletics, alongside sprinter Roger Bambuck).

[8] He represented France at the 1968 European Athletics Indoor Championships, but did not match his previous success and ended the competition in 18th place.

[9] A policeman by occupation, after his retirement from athletics he represented France internationally in sport shooting.