Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| Boris Shukhov Valery Yardy Gennady Komnatov Valery Likhachov | Soviet Union | 2:11:17.8 |
| Lucjan Lis Edward Barcik Stanisław Szozda Ryszard Szurkowski | Poland | 2:11:47.5 |
DQ | Fedor den Hertog Hennie Kuiper Cees Priem Aad van den Hoek | Netherlands | 2:12:27.1 |
4 | Ludo Delcroix Gustaaf Hermans Gustaaf Van Cauter Louis Verreydt | Belgium | 2:12:36.7 |
5 | Thorleif Andresen Arve Haugen Knut Knudsen Magne Orre | Norway | 2:13:20.7 |
6 | Lennart Fagerlund Tord Filipsson Leif Hansson Sven-Åke Nilsson | Sweden | 2:13:36.9 |
7 | Tibor Debreceni Imre Géra József Peterman András Takács | Hungary | 2:14:18.8 |
8 | Gilbert Bischoff Bruno Hubschmid Roland Schär Ueli Sutter | Switzerland | 2:14:33.6 |
9 | Osvaldo Castellan Pasqualino Moretti Francesco Moser Giovanni Tonoli | Italy | 2:14:36.2 |
10 | Sigi Denk Roman Humenberger Rudolf Mitteregger Johann Summer | Austria | 2:14:48.5 |
11 | Jørgen Emil Hansen Junker Jørgensen Jørn Lund Jørgen Marcussen | Denmark | 2:15:25.1 |
12 | Jaime Huélamo Carlos Melero José Teña José Viejo | Spain | 2:15:37.7 |
13 | Miloš Hrazdíra Jiří Mainuš Petr Matoušek Vlastimil Moravec | Czechoslovakia | 2:16:15.4 |
14 | Phil Bayton John Clewarth Phil Edwards Dave Lloyd | Great Britain | 2:16:18.0 |
15 | Richard Ball John Howard Ron Skarin Wayne Stetina | United States | 2:17:06.4 |
16 | Gregorio Aldo Arencibia Roberto Menéndez Pedro Rodríguez Raúl Marcelo Vázquez | Cuba | 2:17:24.5 |
17 | Donald Allan Graeme Jose Clyde Sefton John Trevorrow | Australia | 2:18:00.4 |
18 | Henri Fin Claude Magni Jean-Claude Meunier Guy Sibille | France | 2:18:19.3 |
19 | Kalevi Eskelinen Harry Hannus Mauno Uusivirta Ole Wackström | Finland | 2:18:25.2 |
20 | Johannes Knab Algis Oleknavicius Rainer Podlesch Erwin Tischler | West Germany | 2:18:27.8 |
21 | Cvitko Bilić Radoš Čubrić Jože Valenčič Janez Zakotnik | Yugoslavia | 2:18:28.0 |
22 | Fabio Acevedo Fernando Cruz Henry Cuevas Miguel Samacá | Colombia | 2:18:36.9 |
23 | Gilles Durand Brian Chewter Jack McCullough Tom Morris | Canada | 2:19:39.2 |
24 | Mevlüt Bora Erol Küçükbakırcı Ali Hüryılmaz Seyit Kırmızı | Turkey | 2:19:56.6 |
25 | Agustín Alcántara Antonio Hernández Francisco Huerta Francisco Vázquez | Mexico | 2:21:12.0 |
26 | Liam Horner Peter Doyle Kieron McQuaid Noel Teggart | Ireland | 2:21:37.8 |
27 | Jorge Jukich Lino Benech Alberto Rodríguez Walter Tardáguila | Uruguay | 2:21:57.7 |
28 | Mehari Okubamicael Rissom Gebre Meskei Fisihasion Ghebreyesus Tekeste Woldu | Ethiopia | 2:28:39.3 |
29 | Patrick Gellineau Clive Saney Anthony Sellier Vernon Stauble | Trinidad and Tobago | 2:29:15.2 |
30 | Bernardo Arias Gilberto Chocce Fernando Cuenca Carlos Espinoza | Peru | 2:30:57.5 |
31 | Alfred Tonna Louis Bezzina Joseph Said John Magri | Malta | 2:31:40.1 |
32 | Khosro Haghgosha Mohamed Khodavand Gholam Hossein Koohi Behrouz Rahbar | Iran | 2:34:30.7 |
33 | Jean Bernard Djambou Joseph Evouna Joseph Kono Nicolas Owona | Cameroon | 2:40:10.3 |
34 | Sataporn Kantasa-Ard Pinit Koeykorpkeo Sivaporn Ratanapool Panya Singprayool-Dinmuong | Thailand | 2:41:42.0 |
35 | Abdul Bahar-ud-Din Rahum Daud Ibrahim Saad Fadzil Omar Haji Saad | Malaysia | 2:46:51.6 |