RANK | NATION | NAME ATHLETES | HEAT | SEMI | FINAL |
| United States (USA) | Thane Baker Leamon King Bobby Morrow Ira Murchison | 40.5 | 40.3 | 39.5 |
| Soviet Union (URS) | Leonid Bartenev Yuriy Konovalov Vladimir Sukharev Boris Tokarev | 40.7 | 40.3 | 39.8 |
| United Team of Germany (EUA) | Heinz Fütterer Manfred Germar Lothar Knörzer Leonhard Pohl | 40.8 | 40.5 | 40.3 |
4. | Italy (ITA) | Giovanni Ghiselli Franco Galbiati Luigi Gnocchi Vincenzo Lombardo | 40.9 | 41.1 | 40.3 |
5. | Great Britain (GBR) | Kenneth Box Roy Sandstrom David Segal Brian Shenton | 41.2 | 40.6 | 40.6 |
6. | Poland (POL) | Zenon Baranowski Marian Foik Janusz Jarzembowski Edward Szmidt | 40.9 | 41.0 | 40.6 |
— | Australia (AUS) | Gavin Carragher Hector Hogan Raymond Land Edward McGlynn | 40.6 | 40.8 | DNQ |
— | Pakistan (PAK) | Abdul Aziz Muhammad Sharif Butt Abdul Khaliq Ghulam Raziq | 41.3 | 40.8 | DNQ |
— | France (FRA) | René Bonino Alain David Jocelyn Delecourt Constantin Lissenko | 40.8 | 41.3 | DNQ |
— | Japan (JPN) | Kanji Akagi Akira Kiyofuji Masaji Tajima Kyohei Ushio | 42.2 | 41.3 | DNQ |
— | Hungary (HUN) | György Csanyi Béla Goldoványi Sandor Jakabfy Geza Varasdi | 41.5 | 41.5 | DNQ |
— | Brazil (BRA) | Ary Facanha de Sa Jorge Machado João Pires Sobrinho José Telles da Conceição | 41.6 | 43.8 | DNQ |
— | Canada (CAN) | Joseph Foreman Richard Harding Stanley Levenson John Parrington | 41.7 | DNQ | DNQ |
— | Venezuela (VEN) | Alfonso Bruno Clive Bonas Rafael Romero Apolinar Solórzano | 42.0 | DNQ | DNQ |
— | Thailand (THA) | Montri Srinaka Phaibulya Vacharabhan Vanchak Voradilok Snay Wongchaoom | 44.2 | DNQ | DNQ |
— | Ethiopia (ETH) | Bekele Haile Abebe Hailou Beyene Legesse Robba Nigouse | 44.3 | DNQ | DNQ |
— | Liberia (LBR) | George Johnson Edward Martins Emmanuel Gbecy Putu James Roberts | 47.7 | DNQ | DNQ |
— | Nigeria (NGR) | Edward Alabi Ajado Abdul Karim Amu Titus Abimbola Erinle Rafio Adio Oluwa | DSQ | DNQ | DNQ |