| 1 | USA | USA | 37,79 | Q | |
| (Trell Kimmons, Justin Gatlin, | |||||
| Maurice Mitchell, Travis Padgett) | |||||
| 2 | Frankreich | FRA | 38,38 | Q | |
| (Teddy Tinmar, Christophe Lemaitre, | |||||
| Yannick Lesourd, Jimmy Vicaut) | |||||
| 3 | Portugal | POR | 39,09 | ||
| (Ricardo Monteiro, João Ferreira, | |||||
| Arnaldo Abrantes, Yazalde Nascimento) | |||||
| 4 | Ghana | GHA | 39,17 | ||
| (Emmanuel Kubi, Tim Abeyie, | |||||
| Ashhad Agyapong, Aziz Zakari) | |||||
| 5 | Taiwan | TPE | 39,30 | ||
| (Wen-Tang Wang, Yuan-Kai Liu, | |||||
| Meng-Lin Tsai, Wei-Chen Yi) | |||||
| Brasilien | BRA | DQ | |||
| (Diego Cavalcanti, Sandro Viana, | |||||
| Nilson Andrè, Bruno de Barros) | |||||
| Schweiz | SUI | DNF | |||
| (Pascal Mancini, Reto Schenkel, | |||||
| Alex Wilson, Marc Schneeberger) |
| 1 | Trinidad/Tobago | TRI | 37,91 | Q | |
| (Keston Bledman, Marc Burns, | |||||
| Aaron Armstrong, Richard Thompson) | |||||
| 2 | Jamaika | JAM | 38,07 | Q | |
| (Nesta Carter, Michael Frater, | |||||
| Yohan Blake, Dexter Lee) | |||||
| 3 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | SKN | 38,47 | q | NR |
| (Jason Rogers, Kim Collins, | |||||
| Antoine Adams, Brijesh Lawrence) | |||||
| 4 | Japan | JPN | 38,66 | ||
| (Yuichi Kobayashi, Masashi Eriguchi, | |||||
| Shinji Takahira, Hitoshi Saito) | |||||
| 5 | Südafrika | RSA | 38,72 | ||
| (Hannes Dreyer, Ofentse Mogawane, | |||||
| Roscoe Engel, Thuso Mpuang) | |||||
| 6 | China | CHN | 38,87 | ||
| (Qiang Chen, Jiahong Liang, | |||||
| Bingtian Su, Yi Lao) | |||||
| 7 | Puerto Rico | PUR | 39,04 | NR | |
| (Marcos Amalbert, Carlos Rodríguez, | |||||
| Marquis Holston, Miguel López) | |||||
| Deutschland | GER | DNF | |||
| (Tobias Unger, Marius Broening, | |||||
| Sebastian Ernst, Alex Schaf) |
| 1 | Großbritannien | GBR | 38,29 | Q | |
| (Christian Malcolm, Craig Pickering, | |||||
| Marlon Devonish, Harry Aikines-Aryeetey) | |||||
| 2 | Polen | POL | 38,37 | Q | |
| (Pawel Stempel, Dariusz Kuc, | |||||
| Robert Kubaczyk, Kamil Krynski) | |||||
| 3 | Italien | ITA | 38,41 | q | |
| (Michael Tumi, Simone Collio, | |||||
| Emanuele Di Gregorio, Fabio Cerutti) | |||||
| 4 | Australien | AUS | 38,69 | ||
| (Anthony Alozie, Matt Davies, | |||||
| Aaron Rouge-Serret, Isaac Ntiamoah) | |||||
| 5 | Kanada | CAN | 39,28 | ||
| (Sam Effah, Gavin Smellie, | |||||
| Jared Connaughton, Justyn Warner) | |||||
| 6 | Thailand | THA | 39,54 | ||
| (Weerawat Pharueang, Suppachai Chimdee, | |||||
| Sompote Suwannarangsri, Jirapong Meenapra) | |||||
| Südkorea | KOR | DQ | |||
| (Ho-suah Yeo, Kyu-won Cho, | |||||
| Kukyoung Kim, Hee-nam Lim) | |||||
| Niederlande | NED | DQ | |||
| (Giovanni Codrington, Brian Mariano, | |||||
| Jerrel Feller, Patrick van Luijk) |