| Final 18:15 | time | L | Rk. | 
| 1. United States | 2:57.86 | 4 | 1. | 
|  Angelo Taylor ; Jeremy Wariner ; Kerron Clement ; LaShawn Merritt | 
| 2. Great Britain | 3:00.53 | 7 | 3. | 
|  Conrad Williams ; Michael Bingham ; Robert Tobin ; Martyn Rooney | 
| 3. Australia | 3:00.90 | 2 | 4. | 
|  John Steffensen ; Ben Offereins ; Tristan Thomas ; Sean Wroe | 
| 4. Belgium | 3:01.88 | 5 | 5. | 
|  Antoine Gillet ; Kévin Borlée ; Nils Duerinck ; Cedric van Branteghem | 
| 5. Poland | 3:02.23 | 8 | 9. | 
|  Marcin Marciniszyn ; Piotr Klimczak ; Kacper Kozlowski ; Jan Ciepiela | 
| 6. Dominicana | 3:02.47 | 6 | 7. | 
|  Arismendy Peguero ; Yon Soriano ; Yoel Tapia ; Felix Sánchez | 
| 7. France | 3:02.65 | 3 | 2. | 
|  Leslie Djhone ; Teddy Venel ; Yannick Fonsat ; Yoann Décimus | 
| 8. Nigeria | 3:02.73 | 1 | 6. | 
|  Saul Welgopwa ; Noah Akwu ; Amaechi Morton ; Bola Gee Lawal |