| 1 | Polen | POL | 3:04,25 | Q | NR |
| (Piotr Rysiukiewicz, Piotr Haczek, | |||||
| Jacek Bocian, Robert Maćkowiak) | |||||
| 2 | Japan | JPN | 3:05,90 | Q | AR |
| (Kazuhiro Takahashi, Jun Osakada, | |||||
| Masayoshi Kan, Shunji Karube) | |||||
| 3 | Großbritannien | GBR | 3:06,34 | q | NR |
| (Allyn Condon, Sean Baldock, | |||||
| Adrian Patrick, Solomon Wariso) | |||||
| 4 | Spanien | ESP | 3:15,94 | ||
| (Andrés Martinez, Antonio Andres, | |||||
| Juan Vicente Trull, David Canal) |
| 1 | Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika | USA | 3:08,41 | Q |
| (Andre Morris, Dameon Johnson, | ||||
| Deon Minor, Khadevis Robinson) | ||||
| 2 | Jamaika | JAM | 3:08,90 | Q |
| (Michael McDonald, Linval Laird, | ||||
| Sanjay Ayre, Danny McFarlane) | ||||
| 3 | Frankreich | FRA | 3:09,27 | q |
| (Marc Foucan, Emmanuel Front, | ||||
| Christophe Cheval, Bruno Wavelet) | ||||
| 4 | Österreich | AUT | 3:09,30 | |
| (Martin Lachkovics, Andreas Rechbauer, | ||||
| Hans-Peter Welz, Christoph Pöstinger) |