| | Final | time | | gap | L | pts | ___ | | 1. |  East Germany | 7:15.91 | | CR | 4 | 938 | | | Lars Hinneburg 21 1:50.87, Thomas Flemming 19 1:48.47, Dirk Richter 21 1:49.23, Sven Lodziewski 21 1:47.34 | | 2. |  West Germany | 7:15.96 | | +0.05s | 3 | 938 | | | Rainer Henkel 22 1:51.13, Michael Gross 22 1:46.73, Alexander Schowtka 22 1:49.62, Thomas Fahrner 23 1:48.48 | | 3. |  United States | 7:18.29 | | +2.38s | 5 | 923 | | | Eric Boyer 1:51.26, Mike Heath 22 1:49.52, Dan Jorgensen 18 1:49.41, Matt Biondi 20 1:48.10 | | 4. |  Australia | 7:22.57 | | +6.66s | 6 | 896 | | | Thomas Stachewicz 20 1:50.65, Duncan Armstrong 18 1:49.62, Roberto Gleria 17 1:51.38, Peter Dale 22 1:50.5 | | 5. |  Soviet Union | 7:24.56 | | +8.65s | 8 | 884 | | | Nikolay Yevseyev 20 1:50.91, Veniamin Tayanovich 19 1:50.34, Aleksandr Chayev 24 1:51.40, Gennady Prigoda 21 1:51.91 | | 6. |  France | 7:31.45 | | +15.54s | 2 | 845 | | | Laurent Neuville 21 1:52.30, Franck Iacono 20 1:51.51, Franck Horter 19 1:54.53, Michel Pou 20 1:53.11 | | 7. |  Netherlands | 7:33.15 | | +17.24s | 7 | 835 | | | Hans Kroes 21 1:54.49, Edsard Schlingemann 19 1:53.06, Patrick Dybiona 22 1:53.09, Frank Drost 23 1:52.51 | | 8. |  Italy | 7:33.44 | | +17.53s | 1 | 833 | | | Giorgio Lamberti 17 1:52.02, Massimo Trevisan 18 1:54.67, Giovanni Franceschi 23 1:52.75, Fabrizio Rampazzo 23 1:54.00 |
| | Heat 1 | time | | gap | L | Rk | ___ | | 8. | Soviet Union | 7:31.34 | | +9.80s | - | 1. | | | Aleksandr Tshayev 1:54.59, Veniamin Tayanovich 19 1:51.47, Gennady Prigoda 21 1:53.47, Nikolay Yevseyev 20 1:51.81 | | 9. |  Sweden | 7:32.40 | | +10.86s | - | 2. | | | Anders Holmertz 17 1:51.57, Michael Soderlund 24 1:53.04, Ulf Eriksson 1:54.57, Thomas Lejdstrom 24 1:53.22 | | 12. |  Canada | 7:35.74 | | +14.20s | - | 3. | | | Sandy Goss 19 1:55.82, Blair Hicken 21 1:52.61, Scott Flowers 1:52.96, Christopher Bowie 19 1:54.35 | | 13. |  Brazil | 7:37.60 | | +16.06s | - | 4. | | | Luiz Anchieta 1:54.88, Julio Lopez 19 1:53.92, Marcus Mattioli 25 1:54.23, Jorge Fernandes 24 1:54.57 | | 15. |  Cuba | 7:54.37 | | +32.83s | - | 5. | | | Jose Raul Lopez 20 1:56.52, Pedro Carrio 1:58.56, Pavel Bello 2:01.16, Franki Onay 1:58.13 | | -. |  Egypt | DNS | | | | | | -. |  Mexico | DNS | | | | |
| | Heat 2 | time | | gap | L | Rk | ___ | | 2. | United States | 7:23.51 | | +1.97s | - | 1. | | | Mike O'Brian 1:53.78, Eric Boyer 1:49.34, Mike Heath 22 1:49.63, Daniel Jorgensen 18 1:50.76 | | 4. | Australia | 7:26.23 | | +4.69s | - | 2. | | | Thomas Stachewicz 20 1:51.41, Duncan Armstrong 18 1:51.14, Roberto Gleria 17 1:51.38, Peter Dale 22 1:52.30 | | 6. | Netherlands | 7:29.89 | | +8.35s | - | 3. | | | Hans Kroes 21 1:53.40, Edsard Schlingemann 19 1:52.16, Patrick Dybiona 22 1:52.27, Frank Drost 23 1:52.06 | | 7. | Italy | 7:29.92 | | +8.38s | - | 4. | | | Massimo Trevisan 18 1:53.12, Giovanni Franceschi 23 1:53.14, Stefano Battistelli 16 1:52.58, Giorgio Lamberti 17 1:51.08 | | 11. |  Spain | 7:34.61 | | +13.07s | - | 5. | | | Juan Carlos Vallejo 23 1:52.00, Xavier Miralpeix 20 1:54.16, Daniel Serra 18 1:54.16, Juan Escalas 22 1:54.29 | | 16. |  Chinese Taipei | 8:35.39 | | +1:13.85 | - | 6. | | | Cheng-I Chen 2:03.91, Hsin-Yen Tsai 15 2:13.77, Shih-Hung Lee 2:09.89, Ta-Lin Lee 2:07.82 |
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