Uomini Pos. | Sq. | Atleta | Ris. | 1 | RFA | Lothar Krieg, Franz-Peter Hofmeister, Harald Schmid, Bernd Herrmann | 3:01.24 | 2 | EUR | Josip Alebić, Francis Demarthon, David Jenkins, Ryszard Podlas | 3:02.47 | 3 | AME | Delmo da Silva, Fred Sowerby, Brian Saunders, Alberto Juantorena | 3:02.77 | 4 | DDR | Reinhard Kokot, Olaf Beyer, Gunter Arnold, Volker Beck | 3:03.91 | 5 | AFR | Degnan Kablan, Samson Kebenei, Dele Udo, Felix Imadiyi | 3:04.28 | 6 | OCE | John Higham, Rick Mitchell, Anthony Hodgins, Steve Erkkila | 3:06.3 | 7 | ASI | Ku Boon-Chil, Mohammed-Reza Entezari, Wang Lung-Hu, Uday Khrishna Pradhu | 3:10.9 | | USA | Stanley Vinson, Thomas Andrews, Edwin Moses, Maxie Parks | DNF | | | Donne Pos. | Sq. | Atleta | Ris. | 1 | DDR | Bettina Popp, Barbara Krug, Christine Brehmer, Marita Koch | 3:24.04 | 2 | EUR | Rita Bottiglieri, Donna Hartley, Dagmar Furhmann, Irena Szewińska | 3:25.8 | 3 | URS | Ljudmila Aksënova, Natal'ja Sokolova, Tat'jana Proročenko, Marina Sidorova | 3:27.0 | 4 | OCE | Marian Fisher, Verna Burnard, Bethanie Nail, Christine Dale | 3:30.5 | 5 | AME | Joyce Yakubowich, Jackie Pusey, Helen Blake, Aurelia Pentón | 3:31.0 | 6 | USA | Sharon Dabney, Pam Jiles, Kim Thomas, Rosalyn Bryant | 3:33.0 | 7 | AFR | Ruth Kyalisima, Marième Boye, Tekla Chemabwai, Ruth Waithera | 3:36.3 | 8 | ASI | Lai Lee-Chiao, Keiko Nagasawa, Carolina Rieuwpassa, Than Than | 3:53.8 | |