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Date: 30 August 1972 / 30 August 1972
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Gunnar Larsson | SWE | 4:31.98 |
| 2 | Tim McKee | USA | 4:31.98 |
| 3 | Andras Hargitay | HUN | 4:32.70 |
| 4 | Steve Furniss | USA | 4:35.44 |
| 5 | Gary Hall | USA | 4:37.38 |
| 6 | Bengt Gingsjo | SWE | 4:37.96 |
| 7 | Graham Windeatt | AUS | 4:40.39 |
| 8 | Wolfram Sperling | GDR | 4:40.66 |
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| 9 | Mihail Suharev | URS | 4:43.13 |
| 10 | Christian Lietzmann | GDR | 4:44.47 |
| 11 | Ricardo Marmolejo | MEX | 4:45.20 |
| 12 | Jorge Delgado Jr. | ECU | 4:45.25 |
| 13 | Bertram Turpe | GDR | 4:46.55 |
| 14 | Bruce Featherston | AUS | 4:47.33 |
| 15 | Hans-Joachim Geisler | FRG | 4:48.57 |
| 16 | Neil Martin | AUS | 4:49.85 |
| 17 | John McConnochie | NZL | 4:49.89 |
| 18 | Valentin Partyka | URS | 4:50.03 |
| 19 | Roger van Hamburg | NED | 4:50.70 |
| 20 | Mauro Calligaris | ITA | 4:52.02 |
| 21 | David Brumwell | CAN | 4:52.41 |
| 22 | Csaba Sos | HUN | 4:52.89 |
| 23 | Jiro Sasaki | JPN | 4:53.65 |
| 24 | Jose Luis Prado | MEX | 4:54.49 |
| 25 | Zbigniew Pacelt | POL | 4:55.38 |
| 26 | Antonio Rocha Azevedo | BRA | 4:57.27 |
| 27 | Barry Prime | GBR | 4:57.77 |
| 28 | Michael Holthaus | FRG | 4:58.19 |
| 29 | Sverre Kile | NOR | 4:59.72 |
| 30 | Gudmundur Gislason | ISL | 5:03.54 |
| 31 | Jairulla Jaitulla | PHI | 5:05.48 |
| 32 | Hsu Tung-Hsiung | TPE | 5:09.56 |
| Did not start | |||
| Juan Bello | PER | ||
| Roy Kum Wah Chan | SIN | ||
| Angel Tchakarov | BUL | ||