| 1 | Rußland | RUS | 3:23,49 | Q |
| (Yelena Migunova, Natalya Nazarova, | ||||
| Lyudmila Litvinova, Tatyana Levina) | ||||
| 2 | Weißrußland | BLR | 3:25,14 | Q |
| (Yulyana Yushchanka, Iryna Khliustava, | ||||
| Anna Kozak, Sviatlana Usovich) | ||||
| 3 | Jamaika | JAM | 3:26,14 | Q |
| (Shericka Williams, Anastasia Le-Roy, | ||||
| Davita Prendagast, Shereefa Lloyd) | ||||
| 4 | Kuba | CUB | 3:27,04 | q |
| (Aymeé Martínez, Daimí Pernía, | ||||
| Zulia Calatayud, Indira Terrero) | ||||
| 5 | Nigeria | NGR | 3:27,97 | |
| (Folashade Abugan, Christy Ekpukhon Ihunaegbo, | ||||
| Olouma Nwoke, Sekinat Adesanya) | ||||
| 6 | Ukraine | UKR | 3:30,76 | |
| (Nataliya Pyhyda, Antonina Yefremova, | ||||
| Olha Zavhorodnya, Oksana Shcherbak) | ||||
| 7 | Rumänien | ROM | 3:35,69 | |
| (Taisia Crestincov, Liliana Popescu, | ||||
| Elena Mirela Lavric, Ionela Târlea-Manolache) |
| 1 | USA | USA | 3:23,37 | Q | |
| (DeeDee Trotter, Monique Hennagan, | |||||
| Mary Wineberg, Natasha Hastings) | |||||
| 2 | Großbritannien | GBR | 3:25,45 | Q | |
| (Lee McConnell, Donna Fraser, | |||||
| Marilyn Okoro, Nicola Sanders) | |||||
| 3 | Polen | POL | 3:26,45 | Q | |
| (Agnieszka Karpiesiuk, Grazyna Prokopek, | |||||
| Zuzanna Radecka, Anna Jesien) | |||||
| 4 | Mexiko | MEX | 3:27,14 | q | NR |
| (Zudikey Rodriguez, Gabriela Medina, | |||||
| Nallely Vela, Ana Guevara) | |||||
| 5 | Frankreich | FRA | 3:29,87 | ||
| (Thélia Sigère, Marie-Angélique Lacordelle, | |||||
| Phara Anacharsis, Solen Désert) | |||||
| 6 | Japan | JPN | 3:30,17 | NR | |
| (Sayaka Aoki, Asami Tanno, | |||||
| Satomi Kubokura, Mayu Kida) | |||||
| 7 | Brasilien | BRA | 3:34,34 | ||
| (Maria Laura Almirão, Emily Pinheiro, | |||||
| Sheila Ferreira, Josiane Tito) | |||||
| Indien | IND | DQ | |||
| (Mandeep Kaur, Manjeet Kaur, | |||||
| Chitra K. Soman, Iyleen Samantha Lawrence Anthony) |