| Final | time | | gap | ____________ | | 1. |  East Germany | 4:40.1 | WR | | | | Ingrid Schmidt, Barbara Goebel, Ute Noack, Heidi Pechstein | | 2. |  Netherlands | 4:42.9 | NR | +2.8s | | | Ria van Velsen, Klena Bimolt, Ada Kok, Wilhelmina Tigelaar | | 3. |  Great Britain | 4:46.2 | | +6.1s | | | Linda Lundgrove, Anita Lonsbrough, Anne Cotterill, Diana Wilkinson | | 4. |  Hungary | 4:52.3 | | +12.2s | | | Koreny, Killermann, Martha Egervary, Maria Frank | | 5. |  Sweden | 4:52.9 | | +12.8s | | | Grupp, Eriksson, Seinback, Hageberg | | 6. |  Soviet Union | 4:56.3 | | +16.2s | | | Babanina, Beloveskaya, Prozumenshikova, Ustinova | | 7. |  Italy | 5:05.2 | | +25.1s | | | Saini, Marcellini, A. Beneck, D. Beneck | | 8. |  France | 5:06.0 | | +25.9s | | | Piacentini, Pialai, Libourel, Rost |
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| World Record: United States (Lynn Burke, Patty Kempner, Carolyn Schuler, Chris von Saltza) 4:41.1 1960 |
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| Heat 1 | time | | Rk. | | 1. | Netherlands | 4:45.7 | NR | 1. | | Ria Van Velsen, Klenie Bimolt, Ada Kok, Erica Terpstra | | 2. | East Gemany | 4:46.3 | | 2. | | 3. | Soviet Union | 4:49.9 | | 3. | | 4. | France | 5:03.4 | | 7. | | 5. |  Czechoslovakia | 5:06.0 | | 9. |
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| Heat 2 | time | | Rk. | | 1. | Great Britain | 4:50.1 | | 4. | | Ludgrove, Longsborough, Cotterill, Wilkinson | | 2. | Sweden | 4:52.2 | NR | 5. | | 3. | Hungary | 4:54.0 | | 6. | | 4. | Italy | 5:04.4 | | 8. | | 5. |  Poland | 5:07.1 | NR | 10. |
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