| Country | Score | |
|---|
| Australia Brown Dawson Lancaster Wooldridge
| 4:00.613 (Q) | |
| Great Britain Cummings Manning Newton Steel
| 4:03.985 (Q) | |
| Spain Castano Escobar Maeztu Torrent
| 4:04.421 (Q) | |
| Germany Bartko Fulst Lademann Lampater
| 4:05.823 (Q) | |
| Netherlands Heimans Mouris Schep Straathof
| 4:06.286 (Q) | |
| Ukraine Dyudya Kononenko Matveyev Popkov
| 4:07.175 (Q) | |
| France Ladagnous Langella Neuville Sanchez
| 4:07.336 (Q) | |
| Lithuania Balciunas Baranauskas Vaitkus Vilcinskas
| 4:08.812 (Q) | |
| Russian Federation Borisov Khatuntsev Markov Minashkin
| 4:09.394 | |
| New Zealand Godfrey Latham Randall Ryan
| 4:10.820 | |