| | Final | time | | gap | L | pts | ___ | | 1. |  United States | 3:19.89 | | | 5 | 881 | | | Tom Jager 21 50.58s, Mike Heath 22 49.88s, Paul Wallace 51.14s, Matt Biondi 20 48.29s | | 2. |  Soviet Union | 3:21.14 | | +1.25s | 6 | 864 | | | Gennady Prigoda 21 50.46s, Nikolay Yevseyev 20 50.73s, Sergey Smiryagin 22 50.00s, Aleksey Markovsky 29 49.95s | | 3. |  East Germany | 3:21.47 | | +1.58s | 4 | 860 | | | Dirk Richter 21 50.28s, Jorg Woithe 23 50.75s, Sven Lodziewski 21 49.78s, Steffen Zesner 18 50.66s | | 4. |  West Germany | 3:21.58 | | +1.69s | 3 | 859 | | | Andre Schadt 50.72s, Michael Gross 22 49.83s, Alexander Schowtka 22 50.61s, Thomas Fahrner 23 50.42s | | 5. |  Sweden | 3:23.01 | | +3.12s | 2 | 841 | | | Tommy Werner 20 50.84s, Per Johansson 23 50.04s, Michael Soderlund 24 51.08s, Anders Holmertz 17 51.05s | | 6. |  France | 3:23.69 | | +3.80s | 8 | 832 | | | Stephan Caron 20 50.14s, Laurent Neuville 21 50.82s, Laurent Viquerat 52.05s, Bruno Gutzeit 20 50.68s | | 7. |  Australia | 3:23.88 | | +3.99s | 7 | 830 | | | Matthew Renshaw 51.30s, Neil Brooks 24 50.34s, Mark Stockwell 23 51.51s, Greg Fasala 21 50.73s | | 8. |  Netherlands | 3:24.47 | | +4.58s | 1 | 823 | | | Hans Kroes 21 51.22s, Erik Ran 51.41s, Frank Drost 23 51.89s, Patrick Dybiona 22 49.95s |
Heats - Thursday, 21st August |
| | Heat 1 | time | | gap | L | Rk | ___ | | 6. | Australia | 3:23.38 | | +1.94s | - | 1. | | | Thomas Stachewicz 20 51.22s, Greg Fasala 21 50.97s, Matthew Renshaw 50.52s, Neil Brooks 24 50.67s | | 9. |  Great Britain | 3:24.59 | | +3.15s | - | 2. | | | Andy Jameson 21 51.24s, Mark Foster 16 51.34s, Neil Cochran 21 50.74s, Roland Lee 22 51.27s | | 13. |  Denmark | 3:27.31 | | +5.87s | - | 3. | | | Frantz Mortensen 22 51.55s, Peter Rohde 21 51.01s, Benny Nielsen 20 51.30s, Jan Larsen 18 53.45s | | 14. |  Brazil | 3:28.91 | | +7.47s | - | 4. | | | Cyro Delgado 25 52.44s, Julio Lopez 19 51.98s, Marcus Mattioli 25 53.07s, Jorge Fernandes 24 51.42s | | 16. |  Cuba | 3:35.73 | | +14.29s | - | 5. | | | Alberto Peralta 53.90s, Alejandro Herrera 53.45s, Pavel Bello 54.07s, Franki Onay 54.31s |
| | Heat 2 | time | | gap | L | Rk | ___ | | 4. | Soviet Union | 3:23.05 | | +1.61s | - | 1. | | | Gennady Prigoda 21 51.28s, Sergey Smiryagin 22 50.14s, Veniamin Tayanovich 19 51.45s, Nikolay Yevseyev 20 50.18s | | 5. | Sweden | 3:23.12 | | +1.68s | - | 2. | | | Tommy Werner 20 50.76s, Michael Soderlund 24 50.83s, Thomas Lejdstrom 24 51.58s, Per Johansson 23 49.95s | | 8. | France | 3:24.29 | | +2.85s | - | 3. | | | Laurent Neuville 21 51.34s, Laurent Viquerat 51.65s, Bruno Gutzeit 20 51.20s, Stephan Caron 20 50.10s | | 15. |  Austria | 3:29.70 | | +8.26s | - | 4. | | | Stefan Opatril 19 52.80s, Markus Opatril 21 51.33s, Alexander Pilhatsch 23 51.90s, Harald Sinzinger 53.67s | | 19. |  Venezuela | 3:39.46 | | +18.02s | - | 5. | | | Giovanni Frigo 22 55.56s, Jorge Henao 24 55.54s, Jose Umana 55.67s, Alberto Mestre 21 52.69s | | 21. |  Chinese Taipei | 3:51.39 | | +29.95s | - | 6. | | | Cheng-I Chen 56.53s, Shih-Hung Lee 1:00.30, Ta-Lin Lee 56.77s, Ming-Sun Wu 18 57.79s |
| | Heat 3 | time | | gap | L | Rk | ___ | | 1. | East Germany | 3:21.44 | | | - | 1. | | | Dirk Richter 21 50.59s, Jorg Woithe 23 50.21s, Matthias Lutze 50.34s, Steffen Zesner 18 50.30s | | 7. | Netherlands | 3:23.55 | | +2.11s | - | 2. | | | Hans Kroes 21 51.12s, Erik Ran 50.14s, Frank Drost 23 51.39s, Patrick Dybiona 22 50.90s | | 11. |  Canada | 3:26.00 | | +4.56s | - | 3. | | | Blair Hicken 21 52.03s, Tom Ponting 21 50.99s, Vlastimil Cerny 23 51.69s, Sandy Goss 19 51.29s | | 17. |  Portugal | 3:36.14 | | +14.70s | - | 4. | | | Sergio Esteves 18 53.72s, Joao Santos 22 54.19s, Rui Borges 19 55.20s, Vasco Sousa 22 53.03s | | 20. |  Egypt | 3:42.99 | | +21.55s | - | 5. | | | Mohamed Youssef 23 54.73s, Mostafa Amin 55.75s, Emad El-Shafei 30 56.50s, Ayman Nadim 22 56.01s | | -. |  Spain | DSQ | | | - | - | | | Luis Manuel Martin, Jose Manuel Martin, Daniel Serra 18, Inigo Etxanizs | | -. |  Italy | DNS | | | - | - |
| | Heat 4 | time | | gap | L | Rk | ___ | | 2. | United States | 3:22.23 | | +0.79s | - | 1. | | | Jim Born 51.03s, Asa Lawrence 50.44s, Paul Wallace 50.82s, Mike Heath 22 49.94s | | 3. | West Germany | 3:22.34 | | +0.90s | - | 2. | | | Dirk Korthals 24 51.90s, Andre Schadt 50.14s, Alexander Schowtka 22 50.50s, Michael Gross 22 49.80s | | 10. |  Czechoslovakia | 3:24.97 | | +3.53s | - | 3. | | | Zdenek Kolar 52.74s, Josef Hladky 24 50.33s, Petr Kladiva 19 51.36s, Marcel Gery 21 50.54s | | 12. |  Switzerland | 3:26.87 | | +5.43s | - | 4. | | | Stefan Volery 24 50.22s, Marcel Krist 52.62s, Alberto Bottini 19 52.35s, Dano Halsall 23 51.68s | | 18. |  Turkey | 3:37.12 | | +15.68s | - | 5. | | | Ahmet Nakkas 23 53.42s, Sabriaaa Ozunaaa 55.80s, Gokhan Attaroglu 21 54.04s, Sabribbb Ozunbbb 53.86s |
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