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Host City: Sapporo, Japan
Location: Teineyama
Date Started: February 7, 1972
Date Finished: February 7, 1972
| Gold: | Wolfgang Scheidel |
| Silver: | Harald Ehrig |
| Bronze: | Wolfram Fiedler |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Klaus-Michael Bonsack | 30 | East Germany | GDR | 51.54 | |
| 2 | Wolfgang Scheidel | 28 | East Germany | GDR | 51.58 | |
| 3 | Wolfram Fiedler | 20 | East Germany | GDR | 51.61 | |
| 4 | Harald Ehrig | 22 | East Germany | GDR | 51.74 | |
| 5 | Paul Hildgartner | 19 | Italy | ITA | 51.94 | |
| 6 | Leonhard Nagenrauft | 33 | West Germany | FRG | 51.97 | |
| 7 | Manfred Schmid | 27 | Austria | AUT | 52.19 | |
| 8 | Emilio Lechner | 31 | Italy | ITA | 52.20 | |
| 9 | Josef Fendt | 24 | West Germany | FRG | 52.25 | |
| 10 | Karl Brunner | 20 | Italy | ITA | 52.28 | |
| 11 | Lucjan Kudzia | 30 | Poland | POL | 52.36 | |
| 12 | Christian Strøm | 24 | Norway | NOR | 52.46 | |
| 13 | Josef Feistmantl | 32 | Austria | AUT | 52.52 | |
| 14 | Hans Wimmer | 24 | West Germany | FRG | 52.62 | |
| 15T | Janusz Grzemowski | 24 | Poland | POL | 52.66 | |
| 15T | Wolfgang Winkler | 31 | West Germany | FRG | 52.66 | |
| 17 | Rudolf Schmid | 20 | Austria | AUT | 52.74 | |
| 18 | Masako Eguchi | 22 | Japan | JPN | 52.78 | |
| 19 | Masatoshi Kobayashi | 23 | Japan | JPN | 53.00 | |
| 20 | Stephen Sinding | 20 | Norway | NOR | 53.19 | |
| 21 | Ryszard Gawior | 28 | Poland | POL | 53.26 | |
| 22 | Kazuaki Ichikawa | 22 | Japan | JPN | 53.29 | |
| 23 | Leo Atzwanger | 27 | Italy | ITA | 53.38 | |
| 24 | Franz Schachner | 21 | Austria | AUT | 53.40 | |
| 25 | Satoru Arai | 24 | Japan | JPN | 53.75 | |
| 26 | Bob Rock, Jr. | 22 | United States | USA | 53.85 | |
| 27 | James Murray | 25 | United States | USA | 53.94 | |
| 28 | Terry O'Brien | 28 | United States | USA | 54.02 | |
| 29 | Sergey Osipov | 21 | Soviet Union | URS | 54.06 | |
| 30 | Yury Svetikov | 24 | Soviet Union | URS | 54.08 | |
| 31 | Larry Arbuthnot | 24 | Canada | CAN | 54.17 | |
| 32 | Ralph Havens | 28 | United States | USA | 54.31 | |
| 33 | David McComb | 25 | Canada | CAN | 54.52 | |
| 34 | Mirosław Więckowski | 19 | Poland | POL | 54.61 | |
| 35 | Yury Yegorov | 24 | Soviet Union | URS | 54.64 | |
| 36 | Bjørn Dyrdahl | 27 | Norway | NOR | 54.67 | |
| 37 | Pierre Larchier | 24 | France | FRA | 54.68 | |
| 38 | Jonnie Woodall | 26 | Great Britain | GBR | 54.78 | |
| 39 | Werner Sele | 20 | Liechtenstein | LIE | 55.03 | |
| 40 | Doug Hansen | 23 | Canada | CAN | 55.20 | |
| 41 | Viktor Ilyin | 20 | Soviet Union | URS | 55.21 | |
| 42 | Jeremy Palmer-Tomkinson | 28 | Great Britain | GBR | 55.36 | |
| 43 | Richard Liversedge | 31 | Great Britain | GBR | 55.71 | |
| 44 | Rupert Deen | 33 | Great Britain | GBR | 58.10 |