SKUPINA 1:
1. Velika Britanija 3:02.40 Q (Timothey Benjamin/Sean Baldock/Malachi Davis/Matthew Elias)
2. Japan 3:02.71 Q (Yuki Yamaguchi/Jun Osakada/Tomohiro Itoh/Mitsuhiro Sato)
3. Njemačka 3:02.77 Q (Ingo Schultz/Kamghe Gaba/Ruwen Faller/Bastian Swillims)
4. Australija 3:03.06 q (John Steffensen/Clinton Hill/Patrick Dwyer/Mark Ormrod)
5. Botsvana 3:03.32 q (Oganeditse Moseki/Johnson Kubisa/Calfornia Molefe/ Kagiso Kilego)
6. Grčka 3:04.27 (Stilianos Dimotsios/Anastasios Gousis/Panayiotis Sarris/ Periklis Iakovakis)
7. Francuska 3:04.39 (Ahmed Douhou/Ibrahima Wade/Abderrahim El Haouzy/Leslie Djhone)
Jamajka diskvalificirana (Michael Campbell/Michael Blackwood/Jermaine Gonzales/ Davian Clarke)
SKUPINA 2:
1. SAD 2:59.30 Q (Kelly Willie/Derrick Brew/Andrew Rock/Darold Williamson)
2. Nigerija 3:01.60 Q (James Godday/Musa Audu/Saul Weigopwa/Enefiok Udo Obong)
3. Bahami 3:01.74 Q (Andrae Williams/Dennis Darling/Nathaniel Mckinney/ Christopher Brown)
4. Rusija 3:03.35 (Aleksandr Larin/Andrey Rudnitskiy/Oleg Mishukov/Ruslan Mashchenko)
5. Poljska 3:03.69 (Piotr Rysiukiewicz/Piotr Klimczak/Marcin Marciniszyn/ Marek Plawgo)
6. Ukrajina 3:04.01 (Volodymyr Demchenko/Yevgeniy Zyukov/Myhaylo Knysh/ Andriy Tverdostup)
7. Španjolska 3:05.03 (Eduardo Ivan Rodriguez/David Canal/Luis Flores/Antonio Manuel Reina)
Južna Afrika diskvalificirana