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Date: 8 September 1972 / 9 September 1972
| Rank | Name | Nation | Distance |
| 1 | Randy Williams | USA | 8.24m [27' ½"] |
| 2 | Hans Baumgartner | FRG | 8.18m [26' 10"] |
| 3 | Arnie Robinson | USA | 8.03m [26' 4 ¼"] |
| 4 | Joshua Owusu | GHA | 8.01m [26' 3 ¼"] |
| 5 | Preston Carrington | USA | 7.99m [26' 2 ½"] |
| 6 | Max Klaus | GDR | 7.96m [26' 1 ½"] |
| 7 | Alan Lerwill | GBR | 7.91m [25' 11 ½"] |
| 8 | Leonid Barkovsky | URS | 7.75m [25' 5"] |
| 9 | Valeri Podluzhnyi | URS | 7.72m [25' 4"] |
| 10 | Jacques Rousseau | FRA | 7.65m [25' 1 ¼"] |
| 11 | Ari Vaananen | FIN | 7.62m [25' 0"] |
| 12 | Grzegorz Cybulski | POL | 7.58m [24' 10 ½"] |
| Qualifying | |||
| 13 | Igor Ter-Ovanesyan | URS | 7.78m [25' 6 ¼"] |
| 14 | Jaroslav Broz | TCH | 7.76m [25' 5 ½"] |
| 14 | Bruce Field | AUS | 7.76m [25' 5 ½"] |
| 16 | Rolf Bernhard | SUI | 7.68m [25' 2 ¼"] |
| 16 | Gabor Katona | HUN | 7.68m [25' 2 ¼"] |
| 18 | Lynn Davies | GBR | 7.64m [25' ¾"] |
| 19 | Jerzy Homziuk | POL | 7.63m [25' ½"] |
| 19 | Josef Schwarz | FRG | 7.63m [25' ½"] |
| 21 | Finn Bendixen | NOR | 7.61m [24' 11 ½"] |
| 22 | Andreas Gloerfeld | FRG | 7.60m [24' 11 ¼"] |
| 23 | Wilfredo Maisonaue | PUR | 7.58m [24' 10 ½"] |
| 24 | Christian Tourret | FRA | 7.55m [24' 9 ¼"] |
| 25 | Carol Corbu | ROU | 7.54m [24' 8 ¾"] |
| 26 | Henry Jackson | JAM | 7.50m [24' 7 ¼"] |
| 27 | Milan Matos | CUB | 7.47m [24' 6"] |
| 27 | Takayoshi Kawagoe | JPN | 7.47m [24' 6"] |
| 29 | Michael Kofi Ahey | GHA | 7.39m [24' 3"] |
| 30 | Gill Mohinder Singh | IND | 7.30m [23' 11 ½"] |
| 31 | Martin Adouna | TOG | 7.25m [23' 9 ½"] |
| 31 | Linus Rebmann | SUI | 7.25m [23' 9 ½"] |
| 33 | Chen Chin-Lung | TPE | 6.79m [22' 3 ¼"] |
| 34 | Lionel Caero | BOL | 6.77m [22' 2 ½"] |
| 35 | Bilal Said | KSA | 6.32m [20' 8 ¾"] |
| Did not start | |||
| Mansour Mamadou Dia | SEN | ||
| Samuela Yavala | FIJ | ||
| Enkhbaatar Bjambajav | MGL | ||
| Jack Pani | FRA | ||
| Milan Spasojevic | YUG | ||
| Patrich Onyango | KEN | ||
| Hyon Jong Gu | PRK | ||
| Luiz Carlos de Souza | BRA | ||
| Jan Kobuszewski | POL | ||
| Samuel Igun | NGR | ||
| Dennis Freeman | LBR | ||
| Giuseppe Gentile | ITA | ||
| Did not qualify for final (No mark set) | |||
| Jesper Torring | DEN | ||