# Rowing at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's double sculls

The men's double sculls competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich took place from 27 August – 2 September at the Olympic Reggatta Course in Oberschleißheim.

## Results
### Heats

Winner of each heat (green) qualify to the semifinal round, remainder goes to the repechage.

#### Heat 1

| Rank | Rower | Country | Time |
| 1 | Tim Crooks Patrick Delafield | Great Britain | 6:57.70 |
| 2 | Joachim Böhmer Uli Schmied | East Germany | 7:07.94 |
| 3 | Albert Heyche Claude Dehombreux | Belgium | 7:16.69 |
| 4 | Jorge Imaz Ricardo Ibarra | Argentina | 7:18.28 |
| 5 | Peter Barr John McNiven | Canada | 7:21.69 |

#### Heat 2

| Rank | Rower | Country | Time |
| 1 | Josef Straka, Jr. Vladek Lacina | Czechoslovakia | 6:56.82 |
| 2 | Hans Ruckstuhl Ueli Isler | Switzerland | 7:02.90 |
| 3 | Frank Hansen Svein Thøgersen | Norway | 7:03.65 |
| 4 | Thomas McKibbon John Van Blom | United States | 7:08.91 |
| 5 | Roman Kowalewski Kazimierz Lewandowski | Poland | 7:21.05 |

#### Heat 3

| Rank | Rower | Country | Time |
| 1 | Aleksandr Timoshinin Gennadi Korshikov | Soviet Union | 6:56.17 |
| 2 | Jan Bruyn Paul Veenemans | Netherlands | 7:02.12 |
| 3 | Jochen Meißner Arthur Heyne | West Germany | 7:12.03 |
| 4 | Tsugio Ito Yoshio Minato | Japan | 7:17.51 |
| 5 | Federico Scheffler Ricardo Scheffler | Mexico | 7:43.87 |

#### Heat 4

| Rank | Rower | Country | Time |
| 1 | Niels Henry Secher Jørgen Engelbrecht | Denmark | 7:11.32 |
| 2 | Jean-Noël Ribot Roland Thibaut | France | 7:16.50 |
| 3 | Manfred Krausbar Sepp Puchinger | Austria | 7:29.13 |
| 4 | Carlos Oliveira Manuel Barroso | Portugal | 8:09.93 |

### Repechage

Top two finishers in each heat qualify to the semifinal round.

#### Repechage 1

| Rank | Rower | Country | Time |
| 1 | Jean-Noël Ribot Roland Thibaut | France | 7:10.45 |
| 2 | Jochen Meißner Arthur Heyne | West Germany | 7:11.55 |
| 3 | Thomas McKibbon John Van Blom | United States | 7:19.63 |
| 4 | Peter Barr John McNiven | Canada | 7:29.05 |

#### Repechage 2

| Rank | Rower | Country | Time |
| 1 | Frank Hansen Svein Thøgersen | Norway | 7:03.71 |
| 2 | Jan Bruyn Paul Veenemans | Netherlands | 7:04.15 |
| 3 | Jorge Imaz Ricardo Ibarra | Argentina | 7:22.15 |

#### Repechage 3

| Rank | Rower | Country | Time |
| 1 | Hans Ruckstuhl Ueli Isler | Switzerland | 7:14.70 |
| 2 | Albert Heyche Claude Dehombreux | Belgium | 7:17.58 |
| 3 | Federico Scheffler Ricardo Scheffler | Mexico | 7:40.11 |
| 4 | Carlos Oliveira Manuel Barroso | Portugal | 7:44.25 |

#### Repechage 4

| Rank | Rower | Country | Time |
| 1 | Joachim Böhmer Uli Schmied | East Germany | 7:00.54 |
| 2 | Roman Kowalewski Kazimierz Lewandowski | Poland | 7:08.27 |
| 3 | Tsugio Ito Yoshio Minato | Japan | 7:09.73 |
| 4 | Manfred Krausbar Sepp Puchinger | Austria | 7:16.16 |

### Semifinals
#### Semifinal A/B

First three qualify to the Final A, remainder to Final B.

##### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Rower | Country | Time |
| 1 | Joachim Böhmer Uli Schmied | East Germany | 7:29.13 |
| 2 | Tim Crooks Patrick Delafield | Great Britain | 7:31.62 |
| 3 | Josef Straka, Jr. Vladek Lacina | Czechoslovakia | 7:36.83 |
| 4 | Jan Bruyn Paul Veenemans | Netherlands | 7:40.77 |
| 5 | Hans Ruckstuhl Ueli Isler | Switzerland | 7:45.42 |
| 6 | Jochen Meißner Arthur Heyne | West Germany | 7:46.21 |

##### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Rower | Country | Time |
| 1 | Niels Henry Secher Jørgen Engelbrecht | Denmark | 7:31.32 |
| 2 | Aleksandr Timoshinin Gennadi Korshikov | Soviet Union | 7:35.33 |
| 3 | Frank Hansen Svein Thøgersen | Norway | 7:35.82 |
| 4 | Jean-Noël Ribot Roland Thibaut | France | 7:47.68 |
| 5 | Albert Heyche Claude Dehombreux | Belgium | 7:55.00 |
| 6 | Roman Kowalewski Kazimierz Lewandowski | Poland | 7:59.52 |

### Finals
#### Final B

| Rank | Rower | Country | Time |
| 1 | Jan Bruyn Paul Veenemans | Netherlands | 7:07.25 |
| 2 | Hans Ruckstuhl Ueli Isler | Switzerland | 7:08.22 |
| 3 | Albert Heyche Claude Dehombreux | Belgium | 7:10.03 |
| 4 | Jochen Meißner Arthur Heyne | West Germany | 7:11.74 |
| 5 | Jean-Noël Ribot Roland Thibaut | France | 7:14.21 |
| 6 | Roman Kowalewski Kazimierz Lewandowski | Poland | 7:31.97 |

#### Final A

| Rank | Rower | Country | Time |
| | Aleksandr Timoshinin Gennadi Korshikov | Soviet Union | 7:01.77 |
| | Frank Hansen Svein Thøgersen | Norway | 7:02.58 |
| | Joachim Böhmer Uli Schmied | East Germany | 7:05.55 |
| 4 | Niels Henry Secher Jørgen Engelbrecht | Denmark | 7:14.19 |
| 5 | Tim Crooks Patrick Delafield | Great Britain | 7:16.29 |
| 6 | Josef Straka, Jr. Vladek Lacina | Czechoslovakia | 7:17.60 |