Uomini Pos. | Sq. | Atleta | Ris. | 1 | USA | Herman Frazier, Darrell Green, Willie Smith, Tony Darden | 3:00.70 | 2 | EUR | Ryszard Podlas, Harry Schulting, Franz-P. Hofmeister, Harald Schmid | 3:00.80 | 3 | AFR | Billy Konchellah, Ndubuisi Dele Udo, James Atuti, Hassan El Kashief | 3:01.22 | 4 | URS | Viktor Burakov, Vasilij Archipenko, Remigius Valiulis, Nikolaj Černeckij | 3:02.24 | 5 | AME | Ian Stapleton, Colin Bradford, Brian Saunders, Clyde Edwards | 3:02.39 | 6 | DDR | Frank Richter, Udo Bauer, Frank Schaffer, Manfred Konow | 3:05.27 | 7 | OCE | Peter Grant, Jim O'Sullivan, John Higham, Peter Pearless | 3:06.20 | 8 | ASI | Fahim Al-Sada, Uday Krishna Pradu, Ramashwany Gnanasekaran, Shoichi Handa | 3:12.49 | | | Donne Pos. | Sq. | Atleta | Ris. | 1 | DDR | Gabriele Kotte, Christina Lathan, Brigitte Kohn, Marita Koch | 3:20.37 | 2 | URS | Irina Bagrjanceva, Tat'jana Proročenko, Nina Zjus'kova, Marija Kul'čunova | 3:23.04 | 3 | USA | Sharon Dabney, Rosalyn Bryant, Patricia Jackson, Sherri Howard | 3:27.36 | 4 | EUR | Karoline Käfer, Jarmila Kratochvílová, Elke Decker, Irena Szewińska | 3:27.39 | 5 | AME | Aurelia Pentón, Jacqueline Pusey, Marita Payne, June Griffith | 3:28.50 | 6 | OCE | Marian O'Shaughnessy, Terri-Anne Wangman, Lynnette Young, Kim Robertson | 3:35.60 | 7 | AFR | Grace Bakari, Marieme Boye, Mary Chemweno, Ruth Waithera | 3:36.24 | 8 | ASI | Rita Sen, Yumiko Aoi, Saik Oik Cum, Chen Juying | 3:48.75 | |