| Final 15:30 | time | gap | L | Q | ________________ | | 1. |  Japan | 8:51.5 | WR | 2 | 1. | | | Masanori Yusa, Shigeo Sugiura, Masaharu Taguchi, Shigeo Arai | | 2. |  United States | 9:03.0 | +11.5s | 5 | 2. | | | Ralph Flanagan, John Macionis, Paul Wolf, Jack Medica | | 3. |  Hungary | 9:12.3 | +20.8s | 4 | 3. | | | Arpad Lengyel, Oszkar Abay-Nemes, Odon Gróf, Ferenc Csik | | 4. |  France | 9:18.2 | +26.7s | 8 | 5. | | | Alfred Nakache, Christian Talli, Rene Cavalero, Jean Taris | | 5. |  Germany | 9:19.0 | +27.5s | 1 | 4. | | | Werner Plath, Wolfgang Heimlich, Hermann Heibel, Helmut Fischer | | 6. |  Great Britain | 9:21.5 | +30.0s | 7 | 6. | | | Mostyn Ffrench-Williams, Romund Gabrielsen, Robert Leivers, Norman Wainwright | | 7. |  Canada | 9:27.5 | +36.0s | 6 | 9. | | | Munroe Bourne, Robert Hamerton, Robert Hooper, Robert Pirie | | 8. |  Sweden | 9:37.5 | +46.0s | 3 | 7. | | | Børn Borg, Sten Bolldén, Sven-Pelle Pettersson, Gunnar Werner |
| World Record: Japan 8:52.2 Tokyo, Japan 19 August 1935 | | Olympic Record: Japan 8:58.4 Los Angeles, United States 9 August 1932 |
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| Heat 1 10:30 | time | gap | L | Rk. | ____________ | | 1. | France | 9:21.7 | | 4 | 5. | | | Rene Cavalero, Alfred Nakache, Christian Talli, Jean Taris | | 2. | Canada | 9:40.0 | +18.3s | 2 | 9. | | | Munroe Bourne, Robert Hamerton, Robert Hooper, Robert Pirie | | 3. |  Brazil | 9:42.5 | +20.8s | 1 | 11. | | | Aluizio Lage, Leonidas da Silva, Manoel Villar, Isaac Morais | | 4. |  Philippines | 9:45.8 | +24.1s | 7 | 12. | | | Jikrum Adjaluddin, Arsad Alpad, Nils Christiansen, Jose Obial | | 5. |  Bermuda | 10:50.5 | +1:28.8 | 6 | 14. | | | Edmund Cooper, Leonard Spence, Dudley Spurling, John Young | | 6. |  Greece | 10:51.0 | +1:29.3 | 3 | 15. | | | Richardos Brousalis, Spyridon Mavrogiorgos, Panagiotis Provatopoulos, Angelos Vlakhos | | -. |  Chile | DNS | | 5 | | | | Jorge Berroeta, Alfonso Casasempere, Washington Guzmán, Carlos Reed |
| Heat 2 | time | gap | L | Rk. | ____________ | | 1. | United States | 9:10.4 | | 2 | 2. | | | Ralph Gilman, Charles Hutter, Jack Medica, Paul Wolf | | 2. | Hungary | 9:20.8 | +10.4s | 5 | 3. | | | Oszkar Abay-Nemes, Ferenc Csik, Odon Gróf, Arpad Lengyel | | 3. | Great Britain | 9:30.8 | +20.4s | 1 | 6. | | | Mostyn Ffrench-Williams, Romund Gabrielsen, Robert Leivers, Norman Wainwright | | 4. |  Denmark | 9:39.6 | +29.2s | 7 | 8. | | | Poul Petersen, Jørgen Jørgensen, Aage Hellstrøm, John Christensen | | 5. |  Austria | 10:58.4 | +1:48.0 | 6 | 16. | | | Herbert Hnatek, Franz Seltenheim, Edmund Pader, Gunther Zobernig | | 6. |  Luxembourg | 10:59.8 | +1:49.4 | 4 | 17. | | | Norbert Franck, Pierre Hastert, Marcel Neumann, Georges Tandel | | -. |  Poland | DSQ | | 3 | | | | Kazimierz Bocheński, Helmut Barysz, Joachium Karliczek, Ilja Szrajbman |
| Heat 3 | time | gap | L | Rk. | ____________ | | 1. | Japan | 8:56.1 | OR | 5 | 1. | | | Shigeo Arai, Shigeo Sugiura, Masaharu Taguchi, Masanori Yusa | | 2. |  Germany | 9:21.4 | +25.3s | 3 | 4. | | | Helmut Fischer, Hermann Heibel, Wplfgang Heimlich, Werner Plath | | 3. | Sweden | 9:35.3 | +39.2s | 1 | 7. | | | Børn Borg, Sten-Olof Bolldén, Sven-Pelle Pettersson, Gunnar Werner | | 4. |  Yugoslavia | 9:40.3 | +44.2s | 2 | 10. | | | Drasko Vilfan, Tone Gazzari, Zmaj Defilipis, Anton Cerer | | 5. |  Egypt | 10:05.3 | +1:09.2 | 4 | 13. | | | Said Higazi, Ibrahim Fadl, Mahmoud Kadri, Zaki Saad al-Dine | | -. |  Peru | DNS | | 6 | | | | Alfredo Álvarez Calderón, Arturo Álvarez Calderón, Walter Ledgard Jiménez, Juan Paz, Daniel Carpio |
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