| 1 | USA | USA | 3:21,97 | Q | |
| (Demetria Washington, Michelle Collins, | |||||
| Mikele Barber, Suziann Reid) | |||||
| 2 | Jamaika | JAM | 3:24,87 | Q | |
| (Michelle Burgher, Catherine Scott, | |||||
| Deon Hemmings, Sandie Richards) | |||||
| 3 | Kanada | CAN | 3:25,68 | Q | NR |
| (Foy Williams, Samantha George, | |||||
| Danielle Kot, LaDonna Antoine) | |||||
| 4 | Frankreich | FRA | 3:26,92 | ||
| (Francine Landre, Anita Mormand, | |||||
| Sylvanie Morandais, Marie-Louise Bévis) | |||||
| 5 | Polen | POL | 3:27,37 | ||
| (Aleksandra Pieluzek, Grazyna Prokopek, | |||||
| Aneta Lemiesz, Malgorzata Pskit) | |||||
| 6 | Kuba | CUB | 3:28,68 | ||
| (Yudalis Diaz, Julia Duporty, | |||||
| Libania Grenot, Daimí Pernía) | |||||
| 7 | Puerto Rico | PUR | 3:30,81 | NR | |
| (Militza Castro, Yvonne Harrison, | |||||
| Sandra Moya, Yamelis Ortiz) |
| 1 | Deutschland | GER | 3:26,81 | Q |
| (Florence Ekpo-Umoh, Shanta Ghosh, | ||||
| Claudia Marx, Grit Breuer) | ||||
| 2 | Großbritannien | GBR | 3:27,25 | Q |
| (Lee McConnell , Lesley Owusu, | ||||
| Catherine Murphy, Donna Fraser) | ||||
| 3 | Rußland | RUS | 3:27,39 | Q |
| (Natalya Shevtsova, Irina Rosikhina, | ||||
| Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Olesya Zykina) | ||||
| 4 | Weißrußland | BLR | 3:28,93 | |
| (Natalya Safronnikova, Svetlana Usovich, | ||||
| Irina Khlyustova, Anna Kozak) | ||||
| 5 | Senegal | SEN | 3:30,03 | |
| (Aïda Diop, Mame Tacko Diouf, | ||||
| Bintou Fall Fatou, Amy Mbacke Thiam) | ||||
| 6 | Japan | JPN | 3:33,51 | |
| (Miho Sugimori, Kazue Kakinuma, | ||||
| Sakie Nobuoka, Makiko Yoshida) | ||||
| 7 | Spanien | ESP | 3:33,78 | |
| (Julia Alba, Norfalia Carabali, | ||||
| Miriam Bravo, Yolanda Reyes) |