| 1 | Rußland | RUS | 3:08,02 | Q | |
| (Konstantin Svechkar, Andrey Polukeyev, | |||||
| Aleksandr Derevyagin, Yevgeniy Lebedev) | |||||
| 2 | Frankreich | FRA | 3:08,06 | Q | |
| (Brice Panel, Sébastien Maillard, | |||||
| Teddy Venel, Fadil Bellaabouss) | |||||
| 3 | Spanien | ESP | 3:08,07 | ||
| (Santiago Ezquerro, David Canal, | |||||
| Salvador Rodríguez, David Testa) | |||||
| 4 | Ukraine | UKR | 3:09,46 | NR | |
| (Myhaylo Knysh, Vladimir Demchenko, | |||||
| Vitaliy Dubonosov, Aleksey Rachkovskiy) | |||||
| 5 | Rumänien | ROM | 3:13,93 | NR | |
| (Florin Suciu, Vasile Bobos, | |||||
| Alexandru Mardan, Ioan Lucian Vieru) | |||||
| Jamaika | JAM | DNF | |||
| (DeWayne Barrett, Ricardo Williams, | |||||
| Sanjay Ayre, Lanceford Spence) |
| 1 | USA | USA | 3:03,66 | Q | |
| (James Davis, O.J. Hogans, | |||||
| Tyree Washington, Wallace Spearmon) | |||||
| 2 | Polen | POL | 3:06,10 | Q | |
| (Pawel Ptak, Piotr Klimczak, | |||||
| Piotr Kedzia, Rafal Wieruszweski) | |||||
| 3 | Schweden | SWE | 3:07,10 | q | NR |
| (Joni Jaako, Johan Wissman, | |||||
| Andreas Mokdasi, Mattias Claesson) | |||||
| 4 | Dominikanische Republik | DOM | 3:07,87 | q | NR |
| (Arismendy Peguero, Yoel Tapia, | |||||
| Pedro Mejia, Carlos Santa) | |||||
| Bahamas | BAH | DNF | |||
| (Dennis Darling, Troy McIntosh, | |||||
| Timothy Munnings, Nathaniel McKinney) |