Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| Fedor den Hertog Jan Krekels René Pijnen Joop Zoetemelk | Netherlands | 2:07:49.06 |
| Erik Pettersson Gösta Pettersson Sture Pettersson Tomas Pettersson | Sweden | 2:09:26.60 |
| Giovanni Bramucci Vittorio Marcelli Mauro Simonetti Pierfranco Vianelli | Italy | 2:10:18.74 |
4 | Verner Blaudzun Jørgen Emil Hansen Ole Højlund Pedersen Leif Mortensen | Denmark | 2:12:41.41 |
5 | Thorleif Andresen Ørnulf Andresen Tore Milsett Leif Yli | Norway | 2:14:32.85 |
6 | Jan Magiera Zenon Czechowski Marian Kegel Andrzej Bławdzin | Poland | 2:14:40.98 |
7 | Juan Alberto Merlos Carlos Miguel Álvarez Roberto Breppe Ernesto Contreras | Argentina | 2:15:34.24 |
8 | Burkhard Ebert Jürgen Tschan Ortwin Czarnowski Dieter Koslar | West Germany | 2:15:37.25 |
9 | Boris Shukhov Aleksandr Dokhlyakov Yury Dmitriyev Valery Yardy | Soviet Union | 2:15:39.58 |
10 | Agustín Alcántara Adolfo Belmonte Roberto Brito Radamés Treviño | Mexico | 2:16:08.44 |
11 | John Bettison Roy Cromack Pete Smith John Watson | Great Britain | 2:16:38.60 |
12 | Nemesio Jiménez José Gómez José González Miguel Lasa | Spain | 2:16:38.90 |
13 | Klaus Ampler Günter Hoffmann Dieter Grabe Axel Peschel | East Germany | 2:17:51.29 |
14 | Donald Wilson Kevin Morgan Peter McDermott Dave Watson | Australia | 2:18:09.09 |
15 | Jean-Pierre Boulard Robert Bouloux Jean-Pierre Danguillaume Claude le Chatellier | France | 2:18:35.82 |
16 | Cvitko Bilić Rudi Valenčič Tanasije Kuvalja Franc Škerlj | Yugoslavia | 2:18:52.20 |
17 | András Takács András Mészáros Imre Géra Tibor Magyar | Hungary | 2:20:30.36 |
18 | Michel Coulon Frans Mintjens Marcel Grifnée Englebert Opdebeeck | Belgium | 2:20:52.93 |
19 | Mauno Uusivirta Ole Wackström Raimo Honkanen Raimo Suikkanen | Finland | 2:20:55.47 |
20 | John Howard Oliver Martin John Allis Jim Van Boven | United States | 2:24:13.50 |
21 | Evaristo Oliva Francisco Cuque Jorge Inés Saturnino Rustrián | Guatemala | 2:24:20.7 |
22 | Arnulfo Pozo Hipólito Pozo Noé Medina Victor Morales | Ecuador | 2:25:15.26 |
23 | Neil Lyster Richie Thomson John Dean Des Thomson | New Zealand | 2:25:46.47 |
24 | Luis Sosa Walter Garre Jorge Jukich René Deceja | Uruguay | 2:25:47.20 |
25 | Joe Jones Jules Béland Marcel Roy Yves Landry | Canada | 2:27:18.14 |
26 | Yemane Negassi Fisihasion Ghebreyesus Mikael Saglimbeni Tekeste Woldu | Ethiopia | 2:30:36.79 |
27 | Adrián Solano José Sánchez José Manuel Soto Miguel Ángel Sánchez | Costa Rica | 2:36:25.79 |
28 | Roberto García Francisco Funes Juan Molina Mauricio Bolaños | El Salvador | 2:39:38.39 |
29 | Deng Chueng-hwai Liu Cheng-tao Shue Ming-shu Jiang Guang-nan | Chinese Taipei | 2:42:13.88 |
30 | Constantin Kabemba François Ombanzi Jean Barnabé Samuel Kibamba | Congo-Kinshasa | 2:42:57.58 |