| Final 17:55 | time | L | ________ | | 1. United States |  USA | 3:22.39 | 5 | | | Kim Graham, Rochelle Stevens, Camara Jones, Jearl Miles-Clark | | 2. Russia |  RUS | 3:23.98 | 3 | | | Tatyana Chebykina, Svetlana Goncharenko, Yuliya Sotnikova, Yelena Andreyeva | | 3. Australia |  AUS | 3:25.88 | 4 | | | Lee Naylor, Renee Poetschka, Melinda Gainsford-Taylor, Cathy Freeman | | 4. Germany |  GER | 3:26.10 | 8 | | | Karin Janke, Silke-Beate Knoll, Linda Kisabaka, Uta Rohlander | | 5. Great Britain |  GBR | 3:26.89 | 2 | | | Melanie Neef, Stephanie Llewellyn, Lorraine Hanson, Georgina Oladapo | | 6. Nigeria |  NGR | 3:27.85 | 7 | | | Olabisi Afolabi, Falilat Ogunkoya, Omolade Akinremi, Fatima Yusuf | | 7. Cuba |  CUB | 3:29.27 | 1 | | | Idalmis Bonne, Ana Fidelia Quirot, Nancy McLeon, Julia Duporty | | -. Jamaica |  JAM | DQ | 6 | | | Revoli Campbell, Merlene Frazer, Sandie Richards, Deon Hemmings |
| Heat 1 20:20 | time | L | Rk. | ________ | | 1. Russia | RUS | 3:22.24 | 4 | 1. | | | Tatyana Chebykina, Svetlana Goncharenko, Tatyana Zakharova, Yelena Andreyeva | | 2. Australia | AUS | 3:26.08 | 8 | 7. | | | Lee Naylor, Renee Poetschka, Melinda Gainsford-Taylor, Cathy Freeman | | 3. Cuba | CUB | 3:26.32 | 5 | 9. | | | Surella Morales, Nancy McLeon, Idalmis Bonne, Julia Duporty | | 4. Ukraine |  UKR | 3:26.43 | 7 | 10. | | | Viktoriya Fomenko, Olga Moroz, Irina Lenskaya, Yelena Rurak | | 5. France |  FRA | 3:27.11 | 2 | 11. | | | Marie-Louise Bevis, Viviane Dorsile-ElHaddad, Evelyne Elien, Marie-Jose Perec | | 6. Spain |  ESP | 3:31.71 | 6 | 13. | | | Esther Lahoz, Sandra Myers, Miriam Bravo, Yolanda Reyes | | -. Colombia |  COL | DNF | 3 | | | | Patricia Rodriguez, Elia Manuela Mera, Mirtha Brock, Norfalia Carabali |
| Heat 2 20:35 | time | L | Rk. | ________ | | 1. United States | USA | 3:23.29 | 6 | 2. | | | Kim Graham, Rochelle Stevens, Nicole Green, Camara Jones | | 2. Jamaica | JAM | 3:23.71 | 8 | 3. | | | Claudine Williams, Merlene Frazer, Revoli Campbell, Sandie Richards | | 3. Germany | GER | 3:23.84 | 4 | 4. | | | Linda Kisabaka, Karin Janke, Sandra Kuschmann, Uta Rohlander | | 4. Nigeria | NGR | 3:25.42 | 7 | 5. | | | Falilat Ogunkoya, Olabisi Afolabi, Omolade Akinremi, Fatima Yusuf | | 5. Great Britain | GBR | 3:25.50 | 3 | 6. | | | Melanie Neef, Stephanie Llewellyn, Lorraine Hanson, Georgina Oladapo | | 6. Czechia |  CZE | 3:26.27 | 5 | 8. | | | Nadezda Kostovalova, Hana Benesova, Ludmila Formanova, Helena Dziurova-Fuchsova | | 7. Italy |  ITA | 3:30.88 | 2 | 12. | | | Francesca Carbone, Patrizia Spuri, Danielle Perpoli, Virna De Angeli |
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