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Date: 3 September 1972 / 4 September 1972
Heats
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Michael Burton | USA | 15:52.58 |
| 2 | Graham Windeatt | AUS | 15:58.48 |
| 3 | Doug Northway | USA | 16:09.25 |
| 4 | Bengt Gingsjo | SWE | 16:16.01 |
| 5 | Graham White | AUS | 16:17.22 |
| 6 | Mark Treffers | NZL | 16:18.84 |
| 7 | Bradford Cooper | AUS | 16:30.49 |
| 8 | Guillermo Garcia | MEX | 16:36.03 |
| Heats | |||
| 9 | Anders Bellbring | SWE | 16:33.27 |
| 10 | Hans Fassnacht | FRG | 16:34.63 |
| 11 | Ton van Klooster | NED | 16:34.77 |
| 12 | Axel Freudenberg | GDR | 16:37.19 |
| 13 | Dusan Grozaj | FRG | 16:44.59 |
| 14 | Deane Buckboro | CAN | 16:52.50 |
| 15 | Brian Brinkley | GBR | 16:54.39 |
| 16 | Klaus Dockhorn | GDR | 16:55.30 |
| 17 | Peter Rosenkranz | FRG | 16:58.26 |
| 18 | Alberto Garcia | MEX | 17:05.68 |
| 19 | Francois Deley | BEL | 17:06.09 |
| 20 | Gerardo Vera | VEN | 17:10.33 |
| 21 | Vincenzo Finocchiaro | ITA | 17:13.42 |
| 22 | James Carter | GBR | 17:16.01 |
| 23 | Tomas Becerra | COL | 17:16.38 |
| 24 | Zoltan Verraszto | HUN | 17:18.66 |
| 25 | Sergio Irredento | ITA | 17:19.45 |
| 26 | Alfredo Machado | BRA | 17:20.34 |
| 27 | Wladyslaw Wojtakajtis | POL | 17:23.47 |
| 28 | Gustavo Gonzalez | ARG | 17:23.53 |
| 29 | Christoph Kreienbuhl | SUI | 17:27.67 |
| 30 | Cho Oh-Ryun | KOR | 17:29.23 |
| 31 | Fridrik Gudmundsson | ISL | 17:32.47 |
| 32 | Alexandr Samsonov | URS | 17:32.88 |
| 33 | Jorge Jaramillo | COL | 17:35.84 |
| 34 | Guillermo Pacheco | PER | 17:36.36 |
| 35 | Dae Imlani | PHI | 17:37.65 |
| 36 | Kamel Kenavi Ali Mostafa | EGY | 17:40.37 |
| 37 | Neil Dexter | GBR | 17:42.83 |
| 38 | Csaba Sos | HUN | 17:43.97 |
| 39 | Eugen Almer | ROU | 17:49.80 |
| 40 | Brian Clifford | IRL | 18:09.28 |
| 41 | Edwin Borja | PHI | 18:12.17 |
| Disqualified | |||
| Dimitrios Theodoropoulos | GRE | 18:15.90 | |
| Rick de Mont | USA | 16:17.61 | |
| Did not start | |||
| Vladimir Pavlovic | YUG | ||
| Sverre Kile | NOR | ||