Kuwait competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.

Men's 100 metres

• Younis Rabee

• First Heat — 11.20s (→ did not advance)

Men's 4 × 100 m Relay

• Abdulazeez Abdulkareem, Malik Murdhi, Mohammad Mobarak, and Younis Rabee

• Heat — DNS (→ did not advance)

Men's 100m Freestyle

• Abdalla Zeyab

• Heat — 1:03.94 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200m Freestyle

• Fawzi Irhama

• Heat — 2:33.75 (→ did not advance)

• Official Olympic Reports