| 1 | USA | USA | 42,16 | Q | |
| (Angela Daigle, Muna Lee, | |||||
| Me'Lisa Barber, Lauryn Williams) | |||||
| 2 | Nigeria | NGR | 43,53 | Q | |
| (Gloria Kemasuode, Endurance Ojokolo, | |||||
| Damola Osayomi, Mercy Nku) | |||||
| 3 | Schweden | SWE | 43,67 | NR | |
| (Emma Rienas, Carolina Klüft, | |||||
| Jenny Kallur, Susanna Kallur) | |||||
| 4 | Großbritannien | GBR | 43,83 | ||
| (Emily Freeman, Emma Ania, | |||||
| Laura Turner, Katherine Endacott) | |||||
| Niederlande | NED | DQ | |||
| (Pascal van Assendelft, Jacqueline Poelman, | |||||
| Annemarie Kramer, Judith Baarssen) | |||||
| Bahamas | BAH | DNF | |||
| (Timicka Clarke , Chandra Sturrup, | |||||
| Savatheda Fynes, Philippa Arnett-Willie) |
| 1 | Frankreich | FRA | 42,86 | Q | |
| (Patricia Buval, Lina Jacques-Sébastien, | |||||
| Fabe Dia, Christine Arron) | |||||
| 2 | Jamaika | JAM | 42,97 | Q | |
| (Daniele Browning, Sherone Simpson, | |||||
| Beverly McDonald, Aleen Bailey) | |||||
| 3 | Kolumbien | COL | 43,03 | q | NR |
| (Melisa Murillo, Felipa Palacios, | |||||
| Darlenis Obregón, Norma González) | |||||
| 4 | Brasilien | BRA | 43,22 | q | |
| (Raquel Martins da Costa, Aparecida de Moura Lucimar, | |||||
| Thatiana Regina Ignâcio, Luciana dos Santos) | |||||
| 5 | Italien | ITA | 44,03 | ||
| (Elena Sordelli, Vincenza Calì, | |||||
| Manuela Grillo, Maria Aurora Salvagno) | |||||
| Finnland | FIN | DNF | |||
| (Ilona Ranta, Katja Salivaara, | |||||
| Sari Keskitalo, Heidi Hannula) |
| 1 | Weißrußland | BLR | 42,80 | Q | NR |
| (Yuliya Nesterenko, Natalya Sologub, | |||||
| Alena Nevmerzhitskaya, Oksana Dragun) | |||||
| 2 | Polen | POL | 43,37 | Q | |
| (Iwona Dorobisz, Daria Onysko, | |||||
| Dorota Dydo, Iwona Brzezinska) | |||||
| 3 | Belgien | BEL | 43,40 | ||
| (Katleen De Caluwé, Nancy Callaerts, | |||||
| Elodie Ouédraogo, Kim Gevaert) | |||||
| 4 | Ukraine | UKR | 43,62 | ||
| (Iryna Kozhemyakina, Iryna Shepetyuk, | |||||
| Iryna Shtanhyeyeva, Olena Pastushenko-Sinyavina) | |||||
| 5 | Japan | JPN | 44,52 | ||
| (Tomoko Ishida, Ayumi Suzuki, | |||||
| Yuka Sato, Sakie Nobuoka) | |||||
| Rußland | RUS | DNF | |||
| (Yekaterina Kondratyeva, Yuliya Gushchina, | |||||
| Irina Chabarova, Larisa Kruglova) |