| Date | 30 August 1972 |
|---|---|
| Location | Gewichtheberhalle, Messegelände (Halle 7), München |
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Kilograms | o=success, x=failure | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Won Sin-Hui |  KOR | 130.0 | o | ||||
| Mladen Kuchev |  BUL | 125.0 | o | ||||
| Nasrollah Dehnavi |  IRI | 125.0 | o | ||||
| Yusaku Ono |  JPN | 125.0 | o | ||||
| Masao Kato | JPN | 120.0 | o | ||||
| Eleftherios Stefanoudakis |  GRE | 120.0 | o | ||||
| Francisco Mateos |  ESP | 112.5 | o | ||||
| Idelfonso Lee |  PAN | 110.0 | o | ||||
| José Martínez |  COL | 102.5 | o | ||||
| Mukharby Kirzhinov |  URS | 135.0 | x | ||||
| Waldemar Baszanowski |  POL | 135.0 | x | ||||
| Zbigniew Kaczmarek | POL | 130.0 | x | ||||
| Jenő Ambrózi |  HUN | 125.0 | x | ||||
| Werner Schraut |  FRG | 125.0 | x | ||||
| Dan Cantore |  USA | 122.5 | x | ||||
| George Newton |  GBR | 122.5 | x | ||||
| Leopold Herenčić |  YUG | 120.0 | x | ||||
| Wolfgang Faber |  GDR | 115.0 | x | ||||
| Radnaasediin Amgaased |  MGL | 110.0 | x | ||||
| Ieuan Owen | GBR | 107.5 | x | ||||
| Walter Legel |  AUT | [115.0] | [o] | 1 |
