Rowing at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's coxless four
The men's coxless four competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich took place from 27 August to 2 September at the Olympic Reggatta Course in Oberschleißheim.
Results
Heats
Winner of each heat qualify to the semifinal round, remainder goes to the repechage.Heat 1
Heat 2
| Rank | Rower | Country | Time |
| 1 | Dick Tonks Dudley Storey Ross Collinge Noel Mills | 6:47.27 | |
| 2 | Hans-Jörg Bendiner Walter Steiner Thomas Macher Kurt Baumann | 6:55.81 | |
| 3 | Oscar de Andrés José Manuel Bugia Luciano Wilk Tomás Forray | 6:59.72 | |
| 4 | Csaba Czakó András Kormos József Csermely Antal Melis | 7:02.98 | |
| 5 | José Luis Morales Arturo Figueroa Arcadio Padilla Juan López | 7:20.00 |
Heat 3
| Rank | Rower | Country | Time |
| 1 | Frank Forberger Dieter Grahn Frank Rühle Dieter Schubert | 6:43.87 | |
| 2 | Fred Smallbone Lenny Robertson Jim Clark Bill Mason | 6:45.30 | |
| 3 | Joachim Ehrig Peter Funnekötter Franz Held Wolfgang Plottke | 6:47.53 | |
| 4 | Primo Baran Angelo Rossetto Pier Angelo Conti Abramo Albini | 6:53.85 | |
| 5 | Patrick Sellier Roger Rouver Gérard Chenuet Yves Fraisse | 6:56.58 |
Heat 4
| Rank | Rower | Country | Time |
| 1 | Anatoliy Tkachuk Igor Kashurov Aleksandr Motin Vitaly Sapronov | 6:42.40 | |
| 2 | Willy Poulsen Peter Fich Christiansen Egon Pedersen Rolf Andersen | 6:47.60 | |
| 3 | Biser Boyadzhiev Borislav Vasilev Nikolay Kolev Metodi Khalvadzhiski | 6:47.99 | |
| 4 | Charles Hewitt William Miller Richard Dreissigacker James Moroney | 6:57.05 | |
| 5 | Eralio Cabrera Troadio Delgado Ramón Luperón Angel Serra | 7:07.61 |