| 1 |  URSS (Anatoli Jarkin, Sergey Shelpakov, Oleg Logvin, Yury Kashirin) | 2h01'21" |
| 2 |  Alemania del Este (Hans-Joachim Hartnick, Olaf Ludwig, Bernd Drogan, Falk Boden) | 2h02'53" |
| 3 |  Checoslovaquia (Jiri Skoda, Alipi Kostadinov, Vlastibor Konecný, Michal Klasa) | 2h02'53" |
| 4 |  Polonia (Witold Plutecki, Czeslaw Lang, Jan Jankiewicz, Stefan Ciekanski) | 2h04'13" |
| 5 |  Italia (Alberto Minetti, Ivano Maffei, Gianni Giacomini, Mauro De Pellegrini) | 2h04'36" |
| 6 |  Bulgaria (Nencho Staykov, Yordan Penchev, Venelin Khubenov, Borislav Asenov) | 2h05'55" |
| 7 |  Finlandia (Sixten Wackström, Patrick Wackström, Käri Puisto, Harry Hannus) | 2h05'58" |
| 8 |  Yugoslavia (Bojan Udovic, Bojan Ropret, Vinko Poloncic, Bruno Bulic) | 2h07'12"0 |
| 9 |  Gran Bretaña (Joe Waugh, Steve Jones, Desmond Fretwell, Bob Downs) | 2h07'30" |
| 10 |  Dinamarca (Jørgen Vagn Pedersen, Jesper Worre, Michael Marcussen, Per Kaersgaard Laursen) | 2h07'42" |
| 11 |  Australia (Michaël Wilson, David Scarfe, Remo Sansonetti, Kevin Bradshaw) | 2h08'25" |
| 12 |  Equipo nacional de Suecia (Håkan Karlsson, Mats Gustafsson, Bengt Asplund, Anders Adamson) | 2h08'33" |
| 13 |  Austria (Johann Summer, Herbert Spindler, Peter Muckenhuber, Johann Lienhart) | 2h09'17" |
| 14 |  Suiza (Richard Trinkler, Jürg Luchs, Fritz Joost, Gilbert Glaus) | 2h09'48"9 |
| 15 |  Países Bajos (Adrie Van der Poel, Theo Hogervorst, Jacques Hanegraaf, Guus Bierings) | 2h10'17" |
| 16 |  Bélgica (Léo Wellens, Gerrit Van Gestel, Marc Sergeant, Patrick Du Chau) | 2h10'27" |
| 17 |  Hungría (András Takács, Zoltan Halasz, Laszlo Halasz, Tamás Csathó) | 2h10'54" |
| 18 |  Venezuela (Mario Medina Varela, Juan Arroyo, Olinto Rafael Silva Freitez, Claudio Pérez) | 2h14'15" |
| 19 |  Mongolia (Tömörbaatar Dashjamtsyn, Damdinsürengiin Orgodol, Batsükhiin Khayankhyarvaa, Luvsandagvyn Jargalsaikhan) | 2h15'04" |
| 20 |  Malta (Alfred Tonna, Carmel Muscat, Albert Micallef, Joseph Farrugia) | 2h23'50" |
| 21 |  Libia (Ali Hamed El-Aila, Mohamed El-Kamaa, Nuri Kaheil, Khalid Shebani) | 2h24'48" |
| 22 |  Camerún (Charles Bana, Toussaint Fouda, Joseph Kono, Nicolas Owona) | 2h26'46" |
| 23 |  Etiopía (Haile Micael Kedir, Ayele Mekonnen, Tadesse Mekonnen, Tilahun Alemayehu) | 2h35'47" |
