| Final 20.07 19:18 | time | pts |  | 1. United States | 3:38.09 | 10037 |  |  Natalie Coughlin 54.64s, Lindsay Benko 55.26s, Rhiannon Jeffrey 54.75s, Jenny Thompson 53.44s |  | 2. Germany | 3:38.73 | 9996 |  |  Petra Dallmann 55.39s, Katrin Meibner 54.94s, Antje Buschschulte 54.09s, Sandra Volker 54.31s |  | 3. Australia | 3:38.83 | 9984 |  |  Lisbeth Lenton 54.64s, Elka Graham 55.36s, Jodie Henry 54.22s, Alice Mills 54.61s |  | 4. Netherlands | 3:41.04 | 9843 |  |  Manon Rooijen 56.28s, Marleen Veldhuis 54.23s, Annabel Kosten 55.74s, Chantal Groot 54.79s |  | 5. Great Britain | 3:41.17 | 9835 |  |  Alison Sheppard 56.42s, Karen Legg 54.75s, Melanie Marshall 54.91s, Karen Pickering 55.09s |  | 6. Sweden | 3:41.36 | 9822 |  |  Josefin Lillhage 55.67s, Johanna Sjoberg 55.18s, Anna-Karin Kammerling 54.88s, Therese Alshammar 55.63s |  | 7. China | 3:41.46 | 9811 |  |  Jiaru Cheng 55.35s, Yu Yang 54.69s, Yanwei Xu 55.38s, Jiaying Pang 56.04s |  | 8. Italy | 3:48.18 | 9378 |  |  Cecilia Vianini 56.64s, Cristina Chiuso 57.13s, Sara Parise 57.35s, Luisa Striani 57.06s |   
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