|   | Final | time |   |  | 1. |   Soviet Union | 41.22s |   |  |  | Leonid Bartenyev, Valentin Chistyakov, Anatoly Mikhaylov, Edvin Ozolin  |  | 2. |   Japan | 41.30s |   |  |  | Kiyoshi Asai, Hirotada Hayase, Yojiro Muro, Takayuki Okazaki |  | 3. |   West Germany | 41.35s |   |  |  | Hans-Jürgen Felsen, Rudolf Sundermann, Hinrick Helmke, Joachim Guter |  | 4. |   Great Britain | 41.50s |   |  |  | Berwyn Jones, Michael Robinson, George Cmela, Brian Smouha |  | 5. |   Bulgaria | 41.67s |   |  |  | Ivan Ivanov, Veselin Valov, Petar Petrov, Borislav Stoynev |  | 6. |   Poland | 41.9s |   |  |  | Bogusław Gierajewski, Zdzisław Szczerbański, Andrzej Tynel |   
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|   | Heat 1 | time |   |  | 1. |   West Germany | 41.6s | Q |  |  | Hans-Jürgen Felsen, Rudolf Sundermann, Hinrick Helmke, Joachim Guter |  | 2. |   Great Britain | 41.7s | Q |  |  | Berwyn Jones, Michael Robinson, George Cmela, Brian Smouha |  | 3. |   Poland | 42.1s | Q |  |  | Bogusław Gierajewski, Zdzisław Szczerbański, Andrzej Tynel  |  | 4. |   Cuba | 42.4s |   |  |  | Enrique Figuerola, Evelio Planas, Miguel Conill, Armando Gómez |   
|   | Heat 2 | time |   |  | 1. |   Soviet Union | 41.2s | Q |  |  | Leonid Bartenyev, Anatoly Mikhaylov, Edvin Ozolin, Igor Ter-Ovanesyan |  | 2. |   Japan | 41.5s | Q |  |  | Kiyoshi Asai, Yojiro Muro, Takayuki Okazaki, Hirotada Hayase |  | 3. |   Bulgaria | 41.6s | Q |  |  | Mikhail Bachvarov, Veselin Valov, Petar Petrov, Borislav Stoynev |  | 4. |   Turkey | 43.8s |   |  |  | Aydin Onur, Ferruh Oygur, Ahmet Akbaş, Hüseyin Çakmak |   
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