| 1 |  Switzerland (Donat Acklin, Gustav Weder) | 4:03.26 |
| 2 |  Germany I (Markus Zimmermann, Rudolf Lochner) | 4:03.55 |
| 3 | Germany II (Gunther Eger, Christoph Langen) | 4:03.63 |
| 4 |  Austria II (Thomas Schroll, Ingo Appelt) | 4:03.67 |
| 5 |  Italy (Stefano Ticci, Günther Huber) | 4:03.72 |
| 6 |  Great Britain (Lenox Paul, Mark Tout) | 4:03.87 |
| 7 |  United States (Herschel Walker, Brian Shimer) | 4:03.96 |
| 8 | Austria (Thomas Bachler, Gerhard Rainer) | 4:04.00 |
| 9 |  Canada II (Christian Farstad, Dennis Marineau) | 4:04.08 |
| 10 | Switzerland II (Christian Reich, Christian Meili) | 4:04.36 |
| 11 | Canada (David Mac Eachern, Gregory Haydenluck) | 4:04.84 |
| 12 | Italy II (Antonio Tartaglia, Pasquale Gesuito) | 4:04.94 |
| 13 | Great Britain II (George Farrell, Nicholas Phipps) | 4:05.39 |
| 14 |  France (Claude Dasse, Christophe Flacher) | 4:05.56 |
| 15 |  Latvia II (Adris Pluksna, Sandis Prusis) | 4:05.62 |
| 16 | Latvia (Aldis Intlers, Zintis Ekmanis) | 4:06.33 |
| 17 | France II (Philippe Tanchon, Gabriel Fourmigue) | 4:06.38 |
| 18 |  Romania (Laurentiu Budur, Csaba Nagy) | 4:06.68 |
| 19 |  Japan II (Ryouji Yamazaki, Toshio Wakita) | 4:06.86 |
| 20 |  Community of Independent States (Vladimir Efimov, Alexej Tsushima) | 4:07.45 |
| 21 | Japan (Naomi Takewaki, Fuminori Tsushima) | 4:07.45 |
| 22 | Romania II (Paul Neagu, Costel Petrariu) | 4:07.84 |
| 23 |  Monaco (Gilbert Bessi, Michel Vatrican) | 4:08.13 |
| 24 | United States II (Brian Richardson, Greg Harrell) | 4:08.17 |
| 25 |  Czechoslovakia (Jirí Dzmura, Roman Hraban) | 4:08.31 |
| 26 | Community of Independent States II (Oleg Sukoruchenko, Andrei Gorokhov) | 4:08.33 |
| 27 |  Norway (Erik Gogstad, Atle Norstad) | 4:08.48 |
| 28 |  Bulgaria (Zvetozar Viktorov, Valentin Atanassov) | 4:08.77 |
| 29 |  Yugoslavia (Borislav Vujadinovic, Miro Pandurevic, Dragisa Jovanovic, Ognjen Sokolovic) | 4:10.11 |
| 30 |  Australia (Glenn Turner, Paul Narracott) | 4:10.25 |
| 31 | Czechoslovakia II (Petr Ramseidl, Zdenek Kohout) | 4:10.84 |
| 32 |  Ireland (Patrick Mc Donagh, Terence Mc Hugh) | 4:10.93 |
| 33 |  Taiwan (Chin-San Chen, Min-Jung Chang) | 4:10.97 |
| 34 | Yugoslavia (Borislav Vujadinovic, Miro Pandurevic, Dragisa Jovanovic, Ognjen Sokolovic) | 4:11.39 |
| 35 |  Jamaica II (Devon Harris, Ricky Mcintosh) | 4:11.66 |
| 36 | Jamaica (Dudley Stokes, Nelson Stokes) | 4:12.76 |
| 37 |  Netherlands Antilles (Albert Carpentier Alting, Dudley Den Dulk) | 4:13.09 |
| 38 | Ireland II (Gerard Macken, Malachy Sheridan) | 4:13.48 |
| 39 | Bulgaria II (Nikolai Dimitrov, Dimitar Dimitrov) | 4:13.62 |
| 40 |  Puerto Rico (Liston Bochette, Douglas Rosado) | 4:14.07 |
| 41 |  Mexico (Roberto Tames, Miguel Elizondo) | 4:14.22 |
| 42 | Mexico II (Jorge Tames, Carlos Casar) | 4:14.63 |
| 43 | Monaco II (Albert Grimaldi, Pascal Camia) | 4:15.42 |
| 44 |  United States Virgin Islands (Sven Petersen, William Neill) | 4:16.60 |
| 45 | United States Virgin Islands II (Daniel Burgner, David Entwistle) | 4:16.72 |
| 46 | Puerto Tico II (John Amabile, Jorge Bonnet) | 4:41.61 |
