| 1 |  Soviet Union (Valery Likhachov, Gennadiy Komnatov, Valery Yardy, Boris Shukhov) | 2h11'17" |
| 2 |  Poland (Ryzsard Szurkowski, Stanislaw Szozda, Edward Barcik, Lucjan Lis) | 2h11'47" |
| 4 |  Belgium (Louis Verreydt, Gustaaf Van Cauter, Gustaaf Hermans, Ludo Delcroix) | 2h12'36" |
| 5 |  Norway (Magne Orre, Knut Knudsen, Arve Haugen, Thorleif Andresen) | 2h13'20" |
| 6 |  Sweden National Team (Sven-Åke Nilsson, Leif Hansson, Tord Filipsson, Lennart Fagerlund) | 2h13'36" |
| 7 |  Hungary (András Takács, József Peterman, Imre Géra, Tibor Debreceni) | 2h14'18" |
| 8 |  Switzerland (Ueli Sutter, Roland Schär, Bruno Hubschmid, Gilbert Bischoff) | 2h14'33" |
| 9 |  Italy (Giovanni Tonoli, Francesco Moser, Pasqualino Moretti, Osvaldo Castellan) | 2h14'36" |
| 10 |  Austria (Johann Summer, Rudolf Mitteregger, Roman Humenberger, Siegfried Denk) | 2h14'48" |
| 11 |  Denmark (Jørgen Marcussen, Jørn Lund, Junker Jørgensen, Jørgen Emil Hansen) | 2h15'25" |
| 12 |  Spain (José Luis Viejo Gómez, Carlos Melero Garcia, José Teña Ambros, Jaime Huelamo Huelamo) | 2h15'37" |
| 13 |  Czechoslovakia (Vlastimil Moravec, Petr Matousek, Jirí Mainus, Milos Hrazdíra) | 2h16'15" |
| 14 |  Great Britain (Dave Lloyd, Phil Edwards, John Clewarth, Phil Bayton) | 2h16'18" |
| 15 |  United States (Wayne Stetina, Ron Skarin, John Howard, Richard Ball) | 2h17'06" |
| 16 |  Cuba (Pedro Rodríguez, Roberto Menéndez López, Raúl Marcelo Vázquez Vázquez, Gregorio Aldo Arencibia Guerra) | 2h17'24" |
| 17 |  Australia (John Trevorrow, Kevin Clyde Sefton, Graeme David Jose, Donald John Allan) | 2h18'00" |
| 18 |  France (Guy Sibille, Jean-Claude Meunier, Claude Magni, Henri-Paul Fin) | 2h18'19" |
| 19 |  Finland (Ole Wackström, Mauno Uusivirta, Harry Hannus, Kalevi Eskelinen) | 2h18'25" |
| 20 |  West Germany (Erwin Tischler, Rainer Podlesch, Algis Oleknavicius, Johannes Knab) | 2h18'27" |
| 21 |  Yugoslavia (Janez Zakotnik, Joze Valencic, Rados Cubric, Cvetko Bilic) | 2h18'28" |
| 22 |  Colombia (Miguel Samaca Hernandez, Henry Cuevas Zúñiga, Fernando Cruz, Fabio Acevedo) | 2h18'36" |
| 23 |  Canada (Thomas Morris, Jack McCullough, Brian Chewter, Gilles Durand) | 2h19'39" |
| 24 |  Turkey (Seyit Kirmizi, Ali Hüryilmaz, Erol Küçükbakirci, Mevlüt Bora) | 2h19'39" |
| 25 |  Mexico (Francisco Vázquez de la Torres, Francisco Javier Huerta Franco, Antonio Hernández, Agustín Alcántara) | 2h21'12" |
| 26 |  Ireland (Noel Taggart, Kieron McQuaid, Peter Doyle, Liam Horner) | 2h21'37" |
| 27 |  Uruguay (Elbio Walter Tardáguila Lavega, Alberto Dumas Rodríguez Baglietto, Lino Benech, Jorge Eduardo Jukich Curbelo) | 2h21'57" |
| 28 |  Ethiopia (Tekeste Woldu, Fisihasion Ghebreyesus, Rissom Gebre Meskei, Mehari Okubamicael) | 2h28'39" |
| 29 |  Trinidad and Tobago (Vernon Stauble, Anthony Sellier, Clive Saney, Patrick Gellineau) | 2h29'15" |
| 30 |  Peru (Carlos Espinoza, Fernando Cuenca, Gilberto Chocce, Bernardo Arias) | 2h30'57" |
| 31 |  Malta (John Magri, Joseph Said, Louis Bezzina, Alfred Tonna) | 2h31'40" |
| 32 |  Iran (Behrouz Rahbar, Gholam Hossein Koohi, Mohamed Khodavand, Khosro Haghgosha) | 2h34'30" |
| 33 |  Cameroon (Nicolas Owona, Joseph Kono, Joseph Evouna, Jean-Bernard Djambou) | 2h40'10" |
| 34 |  Thailand (Panya Singprayool-Dinmuong, Sivaporn Ratanapool, Pinit Koeykorpkeo, Sataporn Kantasa-Ard) | 2h41'42" |
| 35 |  Malaysia (Omar Haji Saad, Saad Fadzil, Ibrahim Daud, Abdul Bahar-ud-Din Rahum) | 2h46'51" |
| DSQ |  Netherlands (Aad Van Den Hoek, Cees Priem, Hennie Kuiper, Fedor Den Hertog) | DSQ |
Germany - München - 29 August 1972 - 7 September 1972
