1972 Universe - IFBB
| Overall Winner Ed Corney | ||
Tall | ||
| 1 | Mike Katz (United States) | |
| 2 | Baldo Lois (Spain) | |
| 3 | Ali Al Gayyar (Iraq) | |
| 4 | Nadhir Kaaki (Lebanon) | |
| 5 | Keijo Reiman (Finland) | |
| 6 | Winstone Roberts (Canada) | |
| 7 | Solomon Esmanto (Malaysia) | |
| 8 | Slavko Mujic (Yugoslavia) | |
| 9 | Ismal Ibrahim (Palestine) | |
| 10 | Aziz Ullah (Pakistan) | |
| 11 | Jak Cousaris (Cyprus) | |
| 12 | Paulo Alfonso (Brazil) | |
| 13 | Asad Karlawi (Palestine) | |
Medium | ||
| 1 | Ed Corney (United States) | |
| 2 | Janko Rudman (Sweden) | |
| 3 | Mederic Annette (France) | |
| 4 | Abbas Al Hindawi (Iraq) | |
| 5 | Serge Jacobs (Belgium) | |
| 6 | Faris Jahjah (Lebanon) | |
| 7 | Khalid Birkadar (Lebanon) | |
| 8 | Preecha Sowana (Thailand) | |
| 9 | Carlos Cardenas (Venezuela) | |
| 10 | Koth Tat Khoon (Malaysia) | |
| 11 | Ruggero Tampellini (Italy) | |
| 12 | Mitsumasa Kawakami (Japan) | |
| 13 | Hashim Salim (Singapore) | |
| 14 | Thil Paul (Luxembourg) | |
| 15 | Jean Claudet-Matthey (Switzerland) | |
| 16 | Saafquat Ali-Javed (Italy) | |
| 17 | Georgio Soprani (Italy) | |
| 18 | Malay Roy (India) | |
Short | ||
| 1 | Kenichi Suemitsu 末光健一 (Japan) | |
| 2 | Pierre Vandensteen (Belgium) | |
| 3 | Mohamed Makkawy (Egypt) | |
| 4 | Hubert Plumanns (Belgium) | |
| 5 | Talib Al Doori (Iraq) | |
| 6 | Bras Antonio DaSilva (Brazil) | |
| 7 | Abdul Aleem (Pakistan) | |
| 8 | Johnny Cox (Malaysia) | |
| 9 | Padmanava Dass (India) | |