| 1 |  Soviet Union (Aavo Pikkuus, Vladimir Kaminsky, Valery Chaplygin, Anatoliy Chukanov) | 2h08'53" |
| 2 |  Poland (Mieczyslaw Nowicki, Stanislaw Szozda, Ryzsard Szurkowski, Tadeusz Mytnik) | 2h09'13" |
| 3 |  Denmark (Jørn Lund, Jørgen Emil Hansen, Gert Frank, Verner Blaudzun) | 2h12'20" |
| 4 |  West Germany (Peter Weibel, Friedrich Von Löffelholz, Olaf Paltian, Hans Peter Jakst) | 2h12'35" |
| 5 |  Czechoslovakia (Vladimir Vondracek, Milan Puzrla, Petr Matousek, Peter Buchacek) | 2h12'56" |
| 6 |  Great Britain (Bill Nickson, Dudley Hayton, Philip Griffiths, Paul Carbutt) | 2h13'10" |
| 7 |  Sweden National Team (Tommy Prim, Sven-Åke Nilsson, Bernt Johansson, Tord Filipsson) | 2h13'13" |
| 8 |  Norway (Magne Orre, Arne Klavenes, Geir Digerud, Stein Bråthen) | 2h13'17" |
| 9 |  Australia (Kevin Clyde Sefton, Sal Sansonetti, Remo Sansonetti, Ian Chandler) | 2h13'43" |
| 10 |  East Germany (Michael Schiffner, Gerhard Lauke, Karl-Dietrich Diers, Hans-Joachim Hartnick) | 2h14'39" |
| 11 |  Italy (Dino Porrini, Gino Lori, Vito Da Ros, Carmelo Barone) | 2h14'50" |
| 12 |  Bulgaria (Nedyalko Stoyanov, Ivan Popov, Georgi Fortunov, Stoyan Bobekov) | 2h15'07" |
| 13 |  Belgium (Daniel Willems, Frank Hoste, Dirk Heirweg, Fons De Wolf) | 2h16'08" |
| 14 |  Cuba (Raúl Marcelo Vázquez Vázquez, Jorge Gómez Palermo, Carlos Cardet Llorente, Gregorio Aldo Arencibia Guerra) | 2h17'00" |
| 15 |  Austria (Johann Summer, Rudolf Mitteregger, Leopold Karner, Roman Humenberger) | 2h17'06" |
| 16 |  Canada (Serge Proulx, Thomas Morris, Brian Chewter, Marc Blouin) | 2h17'15" |
| 17 |  Netherlands (Fons Van Katwijk, Adrie Van Houwelingen, Frits Pirard, Arie Hassink) | 2h18'46" |
| 18 |  Mexico (Rodolfo Vitela Arévalo, Francisco Javier Huerta Franco, Ceferino Estrada Saucillo, José Luis Castañeda) | 2h18'48" |
| 19 |  United States (Alan Kingsbery, Marc Thompson, Wayne Stetina, John Howard) | 2h18'53" |
| 20 |  France (Jean-Michel Richeux, Jean-Paul Maho, Loic Gautier, Claude Buchon) | 2h19'43" |
| 21 |  Venezuela (Serafino Silva, José Ollarves, Justo Galaviz, Jesús Escalona) | 2h23'37" |
| 22 |  Argentina (Raúl Juan Labbate, Juan Carlos Haedo, Oswaldo Frosasco, Osvaldo Benvenuti) | 2h24'48" |
| 23 |  Colombia (Julio Alberto Rubiano Pachón, Cristobal Perez Leal, Alvaro Pachòn Morales, Luis Carlos Manrique Corso) | 2h24'55" |
| 24 |  Iran (Asghar Khodayari Bavil, Gholam Hossein Koohi, Khosro Haghgosha, Hassan Aryanfar) | 2h28'25" |
| 25 |  Thailand (Prajin Rungrote, Sucheep Likitrak, Chartchai Juntrat, Panya Singprayool-Dinmuong) | 2h35'03" |
| 26 |  Hong Kong (Kam Man Tang, Chi-Yan Kwong, Lam-Hams Chan, Fai-Lui Chan) | 2h39'43" |
| 27 |  Nicaragua (Manuel Largaespada Flores, Hamblin González, David Iornos, Miguel Espinoza) | 2h51'23" |
| 28 |  Cameroon (Nicolas Owona, Henri Mveh, Maurice Moutat, Joseph Kono) | Dnf |
