| Date | 8 September 1972 |
|---|---|
| Location | Olympia-Regattastrecke, Oberschleißheim, München |
| Pos | Lane | Competitors | NOC | Time | 500 m | 500-1,000 m | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | Norway |  NOR | 3:08.71 | 1:30.82 (1) | 1:37.89 (2) | ||||||
| Egil Søby • Steinar Amundsen • Tore Berger • Jan Johansen | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | West Germany |  FRG | 3:09.71 | 1:31.70 (2) | 1:38.01 (4) | ||||||
| Rudolf Blaß • Eberhard Fischer • Rainer Hennes • Erich Pasch | ||||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | Italy |  ITA | 3:09.89 | 1:31.93 (3) | 1:37.96 (3) | ||||||
| Alberto Ughi • Pierangelo Congiu • Mario Pedretti • Oreste Perri | ||||||||||||
| 4 | 3 | Belgium |  BEL | 3:10.70 | 1:33.90 (5) | 1:36.80 (1) | ||||||
| Jos Broekx • Roger t'Joncke • Jean-Marie D'Haese • Paul Stinckens | ||||||||||||
| 5 | 5 | Yugoslavia |  YUG | 3:11.21 | 1:33.18 (4) | 1:38.03 (5) | ||||||
| Zlatomir Šuvački • Ivan Ohmut • Miloš Kralj • Dušan Filipović | ||||||||||||
