| Date | 30 August 1972 |
|---|---|
| Location | Gewichtheberhalle, Messegelände (Halle 7), München |
| Pos | Competitor | NOC | Kilograms | o=success, x=failure | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mukharby Kirzhinov | URS | 167.5 | o | ||||
| Zbigniew Kaczmarek | POL | 167.5 | o | ||||
| Jenő Ambrózi | HUN | 165.0 | o | ||||
| Won Sin-Hui | KOR | 165.0 | o | ||||
| Mladen Kuchev | BUL | 162.5 | o | ||||
| Waldemar Baszanowski | POL | 162.5 | o | ||||
| Nasrollah Dehnavi | IRI | 160.0 | o | ||||
| Masao Kato | JPN | 160.0 | o | ||||
| Dan Cantore | USA | 155.0 | o | ||||
| Wolfgang Faber | GDR | 152.5 | o | ||||
| Werner Schraut | FRG | 150.0 | o | ||||
| Francisco Mateos | ESP | 147.5 | o | ||||
| Ieuan Owen | GBR | 145.0 | o | ||||
| Leopold Herenčić | YUG | 142.5 | o | ||||
| Eleftherios Stefanoudakis | GRE | 142.5 | o | ||||
| José Martínez | COL | 140.0 | o | ||||
| George Newton | GBR | 135.0 | o | ||||
| Idelfonso Lee | PAN | 135.0 | o | ||||
| Yusaku Ono | JPN | 157.5 | x | ||||
| Walter Legel | AUT | [145.0] | [o] | 1 |