| | Final 17:50 | time | | ________________ | | 1. |  East Germany | 3:25.2 | CR | | | Brigitte Rohde, Waltraud Dietsch, Angelika Handt, Ellen Streidt | | 2. |  Finland | 3:25.7 | NR | | | Marika Eklund, Mona-Lisa Pursiainen, Pirjo Wilmi, Ritta Salin | | 3. |  Soviet Union | 3:26.1 | | | | Inta Klimowich, Ingrida Barkane, Nadezhda Iljina, Natalya Sokolova | | 4. |  Poland | 3:26.4 | | | | Genowefa Nowaczyk, Krystyna Kasperczyk, Danuta Pieczyk, Irena Szewinska | | 5. |  West Germany | 3:27.9 | | | | Dagmar Jost, Elke Barth, Hildegard Falck, Rita Wilden | | 6. |  Great Britain | 3:29.6 | | | | Donna Murray, Verona Bernard, Jannette Roscoe, Ruth Kennedy | | 7. |  Romania | 3:30.8 | | | | Ibolya Slavic, Alexandra Badescu, Lacramioara Diaconiuc, Mariana Suman | | 8. |  Czechoslovakia | 3:36.3 | | | | Eva Stefkova, Jindriska Hermanska, Eva Kovalcikova, Jozefina Cerchlanova |
| History Women 4x400m Relay | | World and European Record: East Germany (Dagmar Kasling, Rita Kuehne, Helga Seidler, Monika Zehrt) 3:23.0 OG Munchen, West Germany 10th September 1972 | | Champioship Record: East Germany (Rita Kuehne, Ingrlore Lohse, Helga Seidler, Monika Zehrt) 3:29.3 Helsinki, Finland 15th August 1971 |
| Heats - Saturday 07.09 18:50 |
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