| Date | 30 August 1972 |
|---|---|
| Location | Gewichtheberhalle, Messegelände (Halle 7), München |
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Kilograms | o=success, x=failure | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasrollah Dehnavi | IRI | 147.5 | o | ||||
| Zbigniew Kaczmarek | POL | 145.0 | o | ||||
| Jenő Ambrózi | HUN | 142.5 | o | ||||
| Masao Kato | JPN | 137.5 | o | ||||
| Wolfgang Faber | GDR | 137.5 | o | ||||
| Leopold Herenčić | YUG | 137.5 | o | ||||
| Yusaku Ono | JPN | 135.0 | o | ||||
| Won Sin-Hui | KOR | 132.5 | o | ||||
| Dan Cantore | USA | 132.5 | o | ||||
| Werner Schraut | FRG | 127.5 | o | ||||
| George Newton | GBR | 127.5 | o | ||||
| Radnaasediin Amgaased | MGL | 125.0 | o | ||||
| Ieuan Owen | GBR | 122.5 | o | ||||
| Eleftherios Stefanoudakis | GRE | 117.5 | o | ||||
| Mladen Kuchev | BUL | 157.5 | x | ||||
| Mukharby Kirzhinov | URS | 147.5 | x | ||||
| Waldemar Baszanowski | POL | 142.5 | x | ||||
| José Martínez | COL | 137.5 | x | ||||
| Pietro Masala | FRG | 137.5 | x | ||||
| Francisco Mateos | ESP | 132.5 | x | ||||
| Idelfonso Lee | PAN | 120.0 | x | ||||
| Walter Legel | AUT | [127.5] | [o] | 1 |