The following are the results of the 50 metre running target competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Various types of a running target event had been held on and off throughout the history of the Olympics.

This event often consisted as a running deer target at several speeds and distances, but at these games it was contested as a running boar shot at 50 metres at two speeds.

The gold medal went to Yakiv Zheleznyak of the Soviet Union.

[1] The format was: 50 metres; 30 shots at each speed, slow and fast.