The following are the results of the Skeet competition at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

A shoot off was held, in the shoot off 1970 world champion, Konrad Wirnhier of West Germany hit all 25 birds to claim the gold.

Earlier in the competition co-world record holder Yury Tsuranov of the Soviet Union disagreed with a ruling on a lost bird, and walked off the field.

This brought his score down to 192, exactly three birds short for the shoot off for the gold medal.

1 From 1972 until 1992, the event was open to women as well as men.