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Date: 7 September 1972 / 10 September 1972
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Lasse Viren | FIN | 13:26.4 |
| 2 | Mohamed Gammoudi | TUN | 13:27.4 |
| 3 | Ian Stewart | GBR | 13:27.6 |
| 4 | Steve Prefontaine | USA | 13:28.4 |
| 5 | Emiel Puttemans | BEL | 13:30.8 |
| 6 | Harald Norpoth | FRG | 13:32.6 |
| 7 | Per Halle | NOR | 13:34.4 |
| 8 | Nikola Sviridov | URS | 13:39.4 |
| 9 | Frank Eisenberg | GDR | 13:40.8 |
| 10 | Javier Alvarez | ESP | 13:41.8 |
| 11 | Ian McCafferty | GBR | 13:43.2 |
| 12 | David Bedford | GBR | 13:43.2 |
| 13 | Juha Vaatainen | FIN | 13:53.8 |
| 14 | Mariano Haro | ESP | |
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| 15 | Josef Jansky | TCH | 13:39.8 |
| 16 | Dusan Moravcik | TCH | 13:40.4 |
| 17 | George Young | USA | 13:41.2 |
| 18 | Paul Mose | KEN | 13:41.4 |
| 19 | Tapio Kantanen | FIN | 13:42.0 |
| 20 | Anthony Benson | AUS | 13:42.8 |
| 21 | Edmundo Warnke | CHI | 13:43.6 |
| 22 | Grant McLaren | CAN | 13:43.8 |
| 23 | Robert Finlay | CAN | 13:44.0 |
| 24 | Keisuke Sawaki | JPN | 13:44.8 |
| 25 | Boualem Rahoui | ALG | 13:45.0 |
| 26 | Pedro Miranda | MEX | 13:45.2 |
| 27 | Tolossa Kotu | ETH | 13:46.2 |
| 28 | Bronislaw Malinowski | POL | 13:48.2 |
| 29 | Tekle Fitinsa | ETH | 13:50.4 |
| 30 | Willy Polleunis | BEL | 13:52.6 |
| 31 | Richard Tayler | NZL | 13:56.2 |
| 32 | Benjamin Jipcho | KEN | 13:56.8 |
| 33 | Anders Garderud | SWE | 13:57.2 |
| 34 | Nikola Puklakov | URS | 13:57.6 |
| 35 | Michael Keogh | IRL | 13:57.8 |
| 35 | Rene Goris | BEL | 13:57.8 |
| 37 | Mario Perez | MEX | 13:58.2 |
| 38 | Edward Sequeira | IND | 14:01.4 |
| 39 | Arne Roald Risa | NOR | 14:01.6 |
| 40 | Jurgen May | FRG | 14:06.6 |
| 41 | Leonard Hilton | USA | 14:07.2 |
| 42 | Vladimir Afonin | URS | 14:08.6 |
| 43 | Gavin Thorley | NZL | 14:11.6 |
| 44 | Takaharu Koyama | JPN | 14:12.6 |
| 45 | Wolfgang Riesinger | FRG | 14:15.2 |
| 46 | Knut Borod | NOR | 14:15.8 |
| 47 | Jorn Lauenborg | DEN | 14:18.8 |
| 48 | Hikmet Sen | TUR | 14:26.0 |
| 49 | Carlos Lopes | POR | 14:29.6 |
| 50 | Raymond Zembri | FRA | 14:34.4 |
| 51 | John Hartnett | IRL | 14:34.6 |
| 52 | Dick Quax | NZL | 14:35.2 |
| 53 | Evans Mogaka | KEN | 14:37.2 |
| 54 | Ngwila Musonda | ZAM | 14:37.4 |
| 55 | Gert Kaerulin | DEN | 14:39.2 |
| 56 | Fritz Rugsegger | SUI | 14:54.4 |
| 57 | Esau Ade Nji | CMR | 15:19.6 |
| 58 | Usaia Sotutu | FIJ | 15:24.2 |
| 59 | P.C. Suppiah | SIN | 15:36.6 |
| 60 | Abdal Almabrouk | KSA | 15:51.0 |
| 61 | Carlos Cuque | GUA | 15:53.4 |
| Did not start | |||
| Jos Hermens | NED | ||
| Abdelhamid Khamis | EGY | ||
| Miruts Yifter | ETH | ||
| Siatka Badji | SEN | ||
| Daniel Korica | YUG | ||
| Jdour Haddou | MAR | ||
| Mikhail Jelev | BUL | ||
| Crispin Quispe | BOL | ||
| Angel Perez Rafael | CRC | ||
| Kerry O'Brien | AUS | ||