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Date: 2 September 1972 / 2 September 1972
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | John Hencken | USA | 2:21.55 |
| 2 | David Wilkie | GBR | 2:23.67 |
| 3 | Nobutaka Taguchi | JPN | 2:23.88 |
| 4 | Rick Colella | USA | 2:24.28 |
| 5 | Felipe Munoz | MEX | 2:26.44 |
| 6 | Walter Kusch | FRG | 2:26.55 |
| 7 | Igor Cherdakov | URS | 2:27.15 |
| 8 | Klaus Katzur | GDR | 2:27.44 |
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| 9 | Nikolai Pankin | URS | 2:26.71 |
| 9 | William Mahony | CAN | 2:26.71 |
| 11 | Brian Job | USA | 2:26.91 |
| 12 | Paul Jarvie | AUS | 2:27.83 |
| 13 | Vladimir Kosinski | URS | 2:28.00 |
| 14 | Pedro Balcells | ESP | 2:29.29 |
| 15 | Roger-Philippe Menu | FRA | 2:30.05 |
| 16 | Robert Stoddart | CAN | 2:30.08 |
| 17 | Steffen Kriechbaum | AUT | 2:30.09 |
| 18 | Jose Sylvio Fiolo | BRA | 2:30.21 |
| 19 | Angel Tchakarov | BUL | 2:30.27 |
| 20 | Malcolm O'Connell | GBR | 2:31.21 |
| 21 | Jean-Pierre Dubey | SUI | 2:31.56 |
| 22 | Armando Boretto | ARG | 2:31.84 |
| 23 | Gudjon Gudmundsson | ISL | 2:32.40 |
| 24 | Rainer Hradetzky | GDR | 2:32.48 |
| 25 | Andreas Hellmann | FRG | 2:32.60 |
| 26 | Gustavo Salcedo | MEX | 2:32.81 |
| 27 | Michael Whitaker | CAN | 2:33.47 |
| 27 | Liam Ball | IRL | 2:33.47 |
| 29 | Amman Jalmaani | PHI | 2:33.54 |
| 30 | Nigel Johnson | GBR | 2:34.37 |
| 31 | Cezary Smiglak | POL | 2:34.51 |
| 32 | Yi Sokhon | CAM | 2:34.77 |
| 33 | Michele di Pietro | ITA | 2:36.49 |
| 34 | Rudi Vingerhoets | BEL | 2:36.89 |
| 35 | Gregor Betz | FRG | 2:36.96 |
| 36 | Alfredo Hunger | PER | 2:37.20 |
| 37 | Janos Toth | HUN | 2:37.40 |
| 38 | Karl Christian Koch | DEN | 2:38.47 |
| 39 | Morkal Faruk | TUR | 2:43.69 |
| 40 | Piero Ferracuti | ESA | 2:45.73 |
| 41 | Alejandro Cabrera | ESA | 2:56.60 |
| Did not start | |||
| Antonio Aguerrevere | VEN | ||
| Theodoros Koutoumanis | GRE | ||