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Dates: 27 August 1972-2 September 1972
Heats
Repechages
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Siegfried Brietzke; Wolfgang Mager | GDR | 6:53.16 |
| 2 | Alfred Bachmann; Heini Fischer | SUI | 6:57.06 |
| 3 | Roel Luynenburg; Ruud Stokvis | NED | 6:58.70 |
| 4 | Lubomír Zapletal; Petr Lakomý | TCH | 6:58.77 |
| 5 | Jerzy Broniec; Alfons Ślusarski | POL | 7:02.74 |
| 6 | Ilie Oanţă; Dumitru Grumezescu | ROU | 7:42.90 |
| Final B | |||
| 7 | Erwin Haas; Lutz Ulbricht | FRG | 7:31.02 |
| 8 | Vladimir Polyakov; Nikolay Vasilyev | URS | 7:34.37 |
| 9 | Dick Lyon; Larry Hough | USA | 7:38.64 |
| 10 | Erik Erichsen; Åke Fiskerstrand | NOR | 7:40.55 |
| 11 | Duško Mrduljaš; Nikola Mardešić | YUG | 7:43.20 |
| 12 | Michael Cooper; Jeremiah McCarthy | GBR | 7:51.01 |
| Repechages | |||
| 13 | Andrew van Ruyven; Richard Symsyk | CAN | 7:45.71 |
| 13 | Kim Mackney; Chris Stevens | AUS | 7:45.03 |
| 13 | Raúl Bagatini; Érico de Souza | BRA | 7:42.63 |
| 13 | László Balogh; György Sarlós | HUN | 7:59.40 |
| 17 | José Luis Rion; Miguel Ruiz | MEX | 8:15.97 |
| 17 | Ri Jong-Hui; Li Jong-Un | PRK | 7:56.42 |
| 17 | Hans Fortmüller; Ulli Wolf | AUT | 7:44.45 |