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Date: 3 September 1972
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Bernd Kannenberg | FRG | 3:56:11.6 |
| 2 | Veniamin Soldatenko | URS | 3:58:24.0 |
| 3 | Larry Young | USA | 4:00:46.0 |
| 4 | Otto Barch | URS | 4:01:35.4 |
| 5 | Peter Selzer | GDR | 4:04:05.4 |
| 6 | Gerhard Weidner | FRG | 4:06:26.0 |
| 7 | Vittorio Visini | ITA | 4:08:31.4 |
| 8 | Gabriel Hernandez | MEX | 4:12:09.0 |
| 9 | Paul Nihill | GBR | 4:14:09.4 |
| 10 | Charles Sowa | LUX | 4:14:21.2 |
| 11 | Karl-Heinz Stadtmuller | GDR | 4:14:28.8 |
| 12 | Hans Tenggren | SWE | 4:16:37.6 |
| 13 | Daniel Bjorkgren | SWE | 4:20:00.0 |
| 14 | Christoph Hohne | GDR | 4:20:43.8 |
| 15 | Stefan Ingvarsson | SWE | 4:21:01.0 |
| 16 | Horst-Rudiger Magnor | FRG | 4:21:53.4 |
| 17 | William Weigle | USA | 4:22:52.2 |
| 18 | John Warhurst | GBR | 4:23:21.6 |
| 19 | Shaul Ladany | ISR | 4:24:38.6 |
| 20 | Raul Gonzalez | MEX | 4:26:13.4 |
| 21 | Alex Oakley | CAN | 4:28:42.6 |
| 22 | Janos Dalmati | HUN | 4:31:23.2 |
| 23 | Domenico Carpentieri | ITA | 4:33:10.6 |
| 24 | Kjell Georg Lund | NOR | 4:34:23.4 |
| 25 | Howard Timms | GBR | 4:34:43.8 |
| 26 | Antal Kiss | HUN | 4:34:45.0 |
| 27 | Steven Hayden | USA | 4:36:07.2 |
| 28 | Adalberto Scorza | ARG | 4:42:41.4 |
| 29 | Ole David Jensen | DEN | 4:57:13.8 |
| Did not finish | |||
| Karl-Heinz Merschenz | CAN | ||
| Jean-Claude Decosse | FRA | ||
| Jose Oliveros | MEX | ||
| Jan Ornoch | POL | ||
| Alfred Badel | SUI | ||
| Disqualified | |||
| Sergey Grigorjev | URS | ||
| Abdon Pamich | ITA | ||
| Did not start | |||
| Ion Benga | ROU | ||
| Andrzej Siennicki | POL | ||
| Winicjusz Nowosielski | POL | ||
| Vasile Dumitrescu | ROU | ||
| Yuri Penalba | NCA | ||
| Ilia Popov | BUL | ||