| Final | time | | gap | L | __________ | Heat F W_F_4x200m |
| 1. Italy |  Italy | 7:15.39 | - | Heat F M_F_4x200m | |
| Massimo Trevisan, Roberto Gleria, Giorgio Lamberti, Stefani Battistelli |
| 2. West Germany |  West Germany | 7:17.38 | - | Heat F M_F_4x200m | |
| Peter Sitt, Martin Hermann, Erik Hochstein, Stefan Pfeiffer |
| 3. East Germany |  East Germany | 7:17.79 | - | Heat F M_F_4x200m | |
| Uwe Dassler, Andre Matzk, Thomas Flemming, Steffen Zesner |
| 4. Sweden |  Sweden | 7:20.76 | - | Heat F M_F_4x200m | |
| Anders Holmerz, Tommy Werner, Michael Soederlund, Henrik Jangwall |
| 5. Soviet Union |  Soviet Union | 7:22.14 | - | Heat F M_F_4x200m | |
| Veniamin Taianovich, Alexey Kuznetsov, Nikolai Evseev, Yuri Bashkatov |
| 6. Poland |  Poland | 7:25.19 | - | Heat F M_F_4x200m | |
| Mariusz Podkoscielny, Maciej Soszynski, Boleslaw Szuter |
| 7. Hungary |  Hungary | 7:26.95 | - | Heat F M_F_4x200m | |
| Zoltan Szilagyi, Valter Kalaus, Tibor Kiss, Norbert Agh |
| 8. Spain |  Spain | 7:37.24 | - | Heat F M_F_4x200m | |
| Daniel Serra, Carlos Ventosa, Sergio Lopez, Juan Carlos Vallejo |
