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Date: 1 September 1972 / 1 September 1972
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Bradford Cooper | AUS | 4:00.27 |
| 2 | Steve Genter | USA | 4:01.94 |
| 3 | Tom McBreen | USA | 4:02.64 |
| 4 | Graham Windeatt | AUS | 4:02.93 |
| 5 | Brian Brinkley | GBR | 4:06.69 |
| 6 | Bengt Gingsjo | SWE | 4:06.75 |
| 7 | Werner Lampe | FRG | 4:06.97 |
| Heats | |||
| 8 | Graham White | AUS | 4:08.29 |
| 9 | Anders Bellbring | SWE | 4:08.38 |
| 10 | Hans Fassnacht | FRG | 4:09.23 |
| 11 | Ralph Hutton | CAN | 4:09.27 |
| 12 | Udo Poser | GDR | 4:09.62 |
| 13 | Gunnar Larsson | SWE | 4:09.88 |
| 14 | Gerardo Vera | VEN | 4:11.37 |
| 15 | Alexandr Samsonov | URS | 4:11.46 |
| 16 | Ton van Klooster | NED | 4:11.72 |
| 17 | Jorge Delgado Jr. | ECU | 4:12.29 |
| 18 | Peter Rosenkranz | FRG | 4:14.01 |
| 19 | Mark Treffers | NZL | 4:14.10 |
| 20 | Wolfram Sperling | GDR | 4:14.73 |
| 21 | Guillermo Garcia | MEX | 4:15.33 |
| 22 | Wladyslaw Wojtakajtis | POL | 4:16.04 |
| 23 | Ronald Jacks | CAN | 4:16.08 |
| 24 | Viktor Aboimov | URS | 4:17.04 |
| 25 | Antonio Corell | ESP | 4:17.81 |
| 26 | Klaus Dockhorn | GDR | 4:17.98 |
| 27 | Alfredo Machado | BRA | 4:18.05 |
| 28 | Alain Charmey | SUI | 4:18.25 |
| 29 | Guillermo Pacheco | PER | 4:18.78 |
| 30 | Arnaldo Cinquetti | ITA | 4:19.49 |
| 31 | Bruce Robertson | CAN | 4:20.31 |
| 32 | Tomas Becerra | COL | 4:20.78 |
| 33 | Sverre Kile | NOR | 4:20.86 |
| 34 | Gustavo Gonzalez | ARG | 4:21.22 |
| 35 | Cho Oh-Ryun | KOR | 4:21.78 |
| 36 | Jose Luis Prado | MEX | 4:22.31 |
| 37 | Dae Imlani | PHI | 4:24.01 |
| 38 | Francois Deley | BEL | 4:24.73 |
| 39 | Neil Dexter | GBR | 4:24.80 |
| 40 | Kamel Kenavi Ali Mostafa | EGY | 4:24.97 |
| 41 | Fridrik Gudmundsson | ISL | 4:26.25 |
| 42 | Dimitrios Theodoropoulos | GRE | 4:30.54 |
| Disqualified | |||
| Rick de Mont | USA | 4:05.70 | |
| Did not start | |||
| Istvan Molnar | HUN | ||