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Date: 1 September 1972 / 4 September 1972
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Kipchoge Keino | KEN | 8:23.6 |
| 2 | Benjamin Jipcho | KEN | 8:24.6 |
| 3 | Tapio Kantanen | FIN | 8:24.8 |
| 4 | Bronislaw Malinowski | POL | 8:28.0 |
| 5 | Dusan Moravcik | TCH | 8:29.2 |
| 6 | Amos Biwott | KEN | 8:33.6 |
| 7 | Romualdas Bitte | URS | 8:34.6 |
| 8 | Pekka Paivarinta | FIN | 8:37.2 |
| 9 | Takaharu Koyama | JPN | 8:37.8 |
| 10 | Mikko Ala-Leppilampi | FIN | 8:41.0 |
| 11 | Jean-Paul Villain | FRA | 8:46.8 |
| 12 | Mikhail Jelev | BUL | 9:02.6 |
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| 13 | Jozef Horoic | TCH | 8:30.6 |
| 14 | Anders Garderud | SWE | 8:30.8 |
| 15 | Gheorghe Cefan | ROU | 8:33.8 |
| 15 | Andrew Holden | GBR | 8:33.8 |
| 17 | Wilhelm Wagner | FRG | 8:34.0 |
| 18 | Paul Thijs | BEL | 8:35.0 |
| 18 | Stephen Hollings | GBR | 8:35.0 |
| 18 | Franco Fava | ITA | 8:35.0 |
| 21 | Anton Feldmann | SUI | 8:35.8 |
| 22 | Willi Maier | FRG | 8:37.6 |
| 23 | John Bicourt | GBR | 8:38.8 |
| 24 | Stephen Savage | USA | 8:39.0 |
| 25 | Hans-Dieter Schulten | FRG | 8:39.8 |
| 26 | Akira Takeuchi | JPN | 8:40.4 |
| 27 | Spyridon Kontossoros | GRE | 8:41.0 |
| 27 | Boualem Rahoui | ALG | 8:41.0 |
| 29 | Gerard Buchheit | FRA | 8:41.2 |
| 29 | Douglas Brown | USA | 8:41.2 |
| 31 | Filbert Bayi | TAN | 8:41.4 |
| 31 | Sergei Skripka | URS | 8:41.4 |
| 33 | Jan Voje | NOR | 8:42.0 |
| 34 | Vitus Ashaba | UGA | 8:45.0 |
| 35 | Georg Kaiser | SUI | 8:45.4 |
| 35 | Hans Menet | SUI | 8:45.4 |
| 37 | Edward Leddy | IRL | 8:47.4 |
| 38 | Panayotis Nakopoulos | GRE | 8:48.4 |
| 39 | Tadeusz Zielinski | POL | 8:49.8 |
| 40 | Michael Manley | USA | 8:50.4 |
| 40 | Kazimierz Maranda | POL | 8:50.4 |
| 42 | Yohannes Mohamed | ETH | 8:52.6 |
| 43 | Sverre Sornes | NOR | 8:54.8 |
| 44 | Robert Hackman | GHA | 8:57.6 |
| 45 | Wigmar Pedersen | DEN | 9:03.0 |
| 46 | Usaia Sotutu | FIJ | 9:12.0 |
| 47 | Julio Quevedo | GUA | 9:28.4 |
| 48 | Esau Ade Nji | CMR | 9:34.4 |
| Did not finish | |||
| Kerry O'Brien | AUS | ||