Uomini Pos. | Sq. | Atleta | Ris. | 1 | USA | Walter McCoy, Cliff Wiley, Willie Smith, Tony Darden | 2:59.12 WL | 2 | EUR | Eric Josjö, Alfons Brijdenbach, Koen Gijsbers, Hartmut Weber | 3:01.47 | 3 | AME | Héctor Daley, Colin Bradford, Michael Paul, Bert Cameron | 3:02.01 | 4 | URS | Pavel Roščin, Viktor Burakov, Vitalij Fedotov, Viktor Markin | 3:02.93 | 5 | ITA | Stefano Malinverni, Roberto Tozzi, Alfonso Di Guida, Mauro Zuliani | 3:03.23 | 6 | RDA | Frank Schaffer, Carsten Petters, Volker Beck, Andreas Knebel | 3:03.63 | 7 | AFR | Brahim Amour, Degnan Kablan, Sammy Koskei, James Atuti | 3:05.55 | 8 | OCE | Gary Minihan, John Fleming, Peter Van Miltenberg, Michael Willis | 3:07.11 | 9 | ASI | Eiji Natori, Takayuki Isobe, Shigenobu Omori, Takashi Nagao | 3:09.93 | | | Donne Pos. | Sq. | Atleta | Ris. | 1 | RDA | Dagmar Rübsam, Martina Steuck, Bärbel Wöckel, Marita Koch | 3:20.62 | 2 | EUR | Michelle Scutt, Verona Elder, Joslyn Hoyte-Smith, Jarmila Kratochvílová | 3:23.03 | 3 | AME | Charmaine Crooks, Jackie Pusey, Marita Payne, June Griffith | 3:26.42 | 4 | URS | Nadežda Ljalina, Irina Baskakova, Tat'jana Litvinova, Irina Nazarova | 3:26.92 | 5 | USA | Delisa Walton, Lorna Forde, Arlise Emerson, Denean Howard | 3:30.72 | 6 | ITA | Patrizia Lombardo, Morena Pistrino, Giuseppina Cirulli, Erica Rossi | 3:36.50 | 7 | OCE | Leanne Evans, Lynette Foreman, Gail Millar, Marian O'Shaughnessy | 3:37.27 | 8 | ASI | Lydia de Vega, Junko Yoshida, Gao Yanqing, Saik Oik Cum | 3:44.64 | 9 | AFR | Marième Boye, Céléstine N'Drin, Regine Dramiga, Ruth Atuki | 3:49.13 | |