| 1 | Deutschland | GER | 3:31,56 | Q |
| (Anja Knippel, Anke Feller, | ||||
| Heike Meißner, Anja Rücker) | ||||
| 2 | Großbritannien | GBR | 3:35,36 | Q |
| (Michelle Thomas, Jennifer Stoute, | ||||
| Donna Fraser, Sally Gunnell) | ||||
| 3 | Frankreich | FRA | 3:35,39 | |
| (Marie-Line Scholent, Sandrine Thiébaud, | ||||
| Nicole Delars, Marie-Françoise Opheltès) |
| 1 | Rußland | RUS | 3:29,85 | Q |
| (Tatyana Chebykina, Natalya Sharova, | ||||
| Yekaterina Bakhvalova, Tatyana Alekseyeva) | ||||
| 2 | Ukraine | UKR | 3:31,11 | Q |
| (Tatyana Movchan, Aelita Yurchenko, | ||||
| Galyna Misiruk, Olga Moroz) | ||||
| 3 | Tschechische Republik | CZE | 3:31,23 | q |
| (Naděžda Koštovalová, Ludmila Formanová, | ||||
| Helena Fuchsová, Hana Benešová) | ||||
| 4 | Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika | USA | 3:31,87 | q |
| (Anita Howard, Carlette Guidry, | ||||
| Natasha Kaiser-Brown, Shanelle Porter) |