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Host City: Sapporo, Japan
Location: Teineyama
Date Started: February 4, 1972
Date Finished: February 4, 1972
| Gold: | Wolfgang Scheidel |
| Silver: | Harald Ehrig |
| Bronze: | Wolfram Fiedler |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wolfgang Scheidel | 28 | East Germany | GDR | 52.06 | |
| 2 | Harald Ehrig | 22 | East Germany | GDR | 52.32 | |
| 3 | Wolfram Fiedler | 20 | East Germany | GDR | 52.55 | |
| 4 | Klaus-Michael Bonsack | 30 | East Germany | GDR | 52.72 | |
| 5 | Josef Fendt | 24 | West Germany | FRG | 52.73 | |
| 6 | Paul Hildgartner | 19 | Italy | ITA | 52.76 | |
| 7 | Leonhard Nagenrauft | 33 | West Germany | FRG | 52.79 | |
| 8 | Manfred Schmid | 27 | Austria | AUT | 52.80 | |
| 9 | Josef Feistmantl | 32 | Austria | AUT | 53.11 | |
| 10 | Janusz Grzemowski | 24 | Poland | POL | 53.12 | |
| 11 | Karl Brunner | 20 | Italy | ITA | 53.26 | |
| 12 | Masako Eguchi | 22 | Japan | JPN | 53.37 | |
| 13 | Emilio Lechner | 31 | Italy | ITA | 53.49 | |
| 14 | Wolfgang Winkler | 31 | West Germany | FRG | 53.53 | |
| 15 | Lucjan Kudzia | 30 | Poland | POL | 53.58 | |
| 16 | Christian Strøm | 24 | Norway | NOR | 53.68 | |
| 17 | Hans Wimmer | 24 | West Germany | FRG | 53.82 | |
| 18 | Rudolf Schmid | 20 | Austria | AUT | 53.93 | |
| 19 | Stephen Sinding | 20 | Norway | NOR | 54.05 | |
| 20 | Ryszard Gawior | 28 | Poland | POL | 54.09 | |
| 21 | Larry Arbuthnot | 24 | Canada | CAN | 54.17 | |
| 22 | Kazuaki Ichikawa | 22 | Japan | JPN | 54.21 | |
| 23 | Leo Atzwanger | 27 | Italy | ITA | 54.32 | |
| 24 | Franz Schachner | 21 | Austria | AUT | 54.38 | |
| 25 | Masatoshi Kobayashi | 23 | Japan | JPN | 54.43 | |
| 26 | Yury Yegorov | 24 | Soviet Union | URS | 54.58 | |
| 27 | Mirosław Więckowski | 19 | Poland | POL | 54.82 | |
| 28 | Ralph Havens | 28 | United States | USA | 54.84 | |
| 29 | Yury Svetikov | 24 | Soviet Union | URS | 55.01 | |
| 30 | Satoru Arai | 24 | Japan | JPN | 55.07 | |
| 31 | Bjørn Dyrdahl | 27 | Norway | NOR | 55.13 | |
| 32 | Terry O'Brien | 28 | United States | USA | 55.17 | |
| 33 | Jonnie Woodall | 26 | Great Britain | GBR | 55.21 | |
| 34 | James Murray | 25 | United States | USA | 55.22 | |
| 35 | Bob Rock, Jr. | 22 | United States | USA | 55.25 | |
| 36 | Sergey Osipov | 21 | Soviet Union | URS | 55.27 | |
| 37 | Viktor Ilyin | 20 | Soviet Union | URS | 55.50 | |
| 38 | Jeremy Palmer-Tomkinson | 28 | Great Britain | GBR | 55.59 | |
| 39 | Doug Hansen | 23 | Canada | CAN | 55.94 | |
| 40 | Werner Sele | 20 | Liechtenstein | LIE | 56.04 | |
| 41 | David McComb | 25 | Canada | CAN | 56.14 | |
| 42 | Pierre Larchier | 24 | France | FRA | 56.28 | |
| 43 | Richard Liversedge | 31 | Great Britain | GBR | 57.08 | |
| 44 | Rupert Deen | 33 | Great Britain | GBR | 59.65 |