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Date: 31 August 1972
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Peter Frenkel | GDR | 1:26:42.4 |
| 2 | Vladimir Golubnichy | URS | 1:26:55.2 |
| 3 | Hans-Georg Reimann | GDR | 1:27:16.6 |
| 4 | Gerhard Sperling | GDR | 1:27:55.0 |
| 5 | Nikolai Smaga | URS | 1:28:16.8 |
| 6 | Paul Nihill | GBR | 1:28:44.4 |
| 7 | Jan Ornoch | POL | 1:32:01.6 |
| 8 | Vittorio Visini | ITA | 1:32:30.0 |
| 9 | Jose Oliveros | MEX | 1:32:40.6 |
| 10 | Larry Young | USA | 1:32:53.4 |
| 11 | Jan Arvid Rolstad | NOR | 1:33:03.2 |
| 12 | Pedro Aroche | MEX | 1:33:05.0 |
| 13 | Heinz Mayr | FRG | 1:33:13.8 |
| 14 | Philip Embleton | GBR | 1:33:22.2 |
| 15 | Thomas Dooley | USA | 1:34:58.8 |
| 16 | Wilfried Wesch | FRG | 1:35:20.6 |
| 17 | Peter Marlow | GBR | 1:35:38.8 |
| 18 | Charles Sowa | LUX | 1:36:23.8 |
| 19 | Gotz Klopfer | USA | 1:38:33.6 |
| 20 | Hunde Toure | ETH | 1:43:11.6 |
| 21 | Esteban Valle | NCA | 1:45:09.4 |
| 22 | Ismael Avila | MEX | 1:45:45.4 |
| Did not finish | |||
| Bernd Kannenberg | FRG | ||
| Disqualified | |||
| Evgeni Ivchenko | URS | ||
| Did not start | |||
| Tadeusz Gorzechowski | POL | ||
| Ludomir Nitkowski | POL | ||
| Shaul Ladany | ISR | ||
| Teodor Ionescu | ROU | ||
| Ioan Muresanu | ROU | ||
| Daniel Bjorkgren | SWE | ||
| Stefan Ingvarsson | SWE | ||
| Hans Tenggren | SWE | ||
| Fernando Ielli | ITA | ||
| Kjell Georg Lund | NOR | ||
| Aram Levonian | BUL | ||
| Oscar Barletta | ITA | ||
| Janos Dalmati | HUN | ||
| Antal Kiss | HUN | ||