| Heat 1 | Team | Time |
| 1. Tatiana Kazankina | URS | 3:59.2 |
| 2. Nadezhda Olizarenko | URS | 3:59.5 |
| 3. Christiane Wartenberg | GDR | 4:00.4 |
| 4. Ulrike Bruns | GDR | 4:01.6 |
| 5. Maricica Puika | ROM | 4:01.7 |
| 6. Vesela Yatsinska | BUL | 4:04.7 |
| 7. Cornelia Borki | SUI | 4:05.5 |
| 8. Totka Petrova | BUL | 4:13.8 |
| 9. Janet Marlow | GBR | 4:15.9 |
| 10.Amsale Woldegibriel | ETH | 4:25.3 |
| 11.Marcellino Emmanuel | TAN | 4:26.8 |
| 12.Albertine Raheliarisoa | MAD | 4:30.8 |
| 13.Margaret Morel | SEY | 4:37.9 |
| Heat 2 | Team | Time |
| 1. Liubov Smolka | URS | 4:04.4 |
| 2. Ileana Silai | ROM | 4:04.7 |
| 3. Gabriella Dorio | ITA | 4:05.0 |
| 4. Natalia Marasescu | ROM | 4:05.9 |
| 5. Anna Bukis | POL | 4:06.0 |
| 6. Beate Liebich | GDR | 4:06.8 |
| 7. Nikolina Shchereva | BUL | 4:08.3 |
| 8. Breda Pergar | YUG | 4:13.2 |
| 9. Agnese Rossamai | ITA | 4:14.7 |
| 10.Mwinga Mwanjala | TAN | 4:20.9 |
| 11.Thi Be Trinh | VIE | 4:38.6 |
| -. Hala el-Moughrabi | SYR | DNS |
| -. Gita Zutshi | IND | DNS |
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Last updated: 25 Aug 2012
