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Date: 28 August 1972 / 28 August 1972 / 29 August 1972
Heats
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Roland Matthes | GDR | 56.58 |
| 2 | Mike Stamm | USA | 57.70 |
| 3 | John Murphy | USA | 58.35 |
| 4 | Mitchell Ivey | USA | 58.48 |
| 5 | Igor Grivennikov | URS | 59.50 |
| 6 | Lutz Wanja | GDR | 59.80 |
| 7 | Juergen Krueger | GDR | 59.93 |
| 8 | Tadashi Honda | JPN | 1:00.41 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 9 | Bob Schoutsen | NED | 1:00.48 |
| 10 | Ejvind Pedersen | DEN | 1:00.53 |
| 11 | Jean-Paul Berjeau | FRA | 1:00.59 |
| 12 | Erik Fish | CAN | 1:00.73 |
| 13 | Ian MacKenzie | CAN | 1:00.92 |
| 14 | Clive Rushton | GBR | 1:01.25 |
| 15 | Michael Richards | GBR | 1:01.27 |
| 16 | Nenad Milos | YUG | 1:01.29 |
| Heats | |||
| 17 | Pierre Baehr | FRA | 1:01.13 |
| 17 | Zoltan Verraszto | HUN | 1:01.13 |
| 19 | Lars Borgesen | DEN | 1:01.23 |
| 20 | Colin Cunningham | GBR | 1:01.28 |
| 21 | Anders Sandberg | SWE | 1:01.41 |
| 22 | Helmut Podolan | AUT | 1:01.49 |
| 23 | Laszlo Cseh | HUN | 1:01.63 |
| 24 | Clay Evans | CAN | 1:01.69 |
| 25 | Piotr Dlucik | POL | 1:01.94 |
| 26 | Robert Rudolf | HUN | 1:02.34 |
| 27 | Jose Joaquin Santibanez | MEX | 1:02.46 |
| 28 | Andreas Weber | FRG | 1:02.49 |
| 29 | Milos Predrag | YUG | 1:03.02 |
| 30 | Romulo Arantes Jr. | BRA | 1:03.18 |
| 31 | Hsu Tung-Hsiung | TPE | 1:03.31 |
| 32 | Gustavo Gonzalez | ARG | 1:04.16 |
| 33 | Amin Ahmed Adel Youssef | EGY | 1:04.40 |
| 34 | Neil Martin | AUS | 1:05.13 |
| 35 | Sergio Hasbun | ESA | 1:06.53 |
| 36 | Gerardo Rosario | PHI | 1:06.85 |
| 37 | Van Sarun | CAM | 1:07.26 |
| 38 | Chiang Jin-Choon | MAS | 1:07.65 |
| 39 | Mark Anthony Crocker | HKG | 1:11.20 |
| Did not start | |||
| Giuseppe d'Altrui | ITA | ||
| Dimiter Kolarov | BUL | ||
| Bruno Bassoul | LBN | ||
| Reynaldo Patino | ESA | ||