| Final | time | | gap | ____________ | | 1. |  East Germany | 4:40.1 | WR | | | | Ingrid Schmidt 1:10.7, Barbara Goebel 1:18.3, Ute Noack 1:08.7, Heidi Pechstein 1:02.4 | | 2. |  Netherlands | 4:42.9 | NR | +2.8s | | | Ria van Velsen 1:10.8, Klena Bimolt 1:20.9, Ada Kok 1:07.8, Wilhelmina Tigelaar 1:03.4 | | 3. |  Great Britain | 4:46.2 | | +6.1s | | | Linda Lundgrove 1:11.3, Anita Lonsbrough 1:21.0, Anne Cotterill 1:11.4, Diana Wilkinson 1:02.5 | | 4. |  Hungary | 4:52.3 | | +12.2s | | | Olga Koreny 1:13.7, Killermann 1:23.7, Martha Egervary 1:10.7, Maria Frank 1:04.2 | | 5. |  Sweden | 4:52.9 | | +12.8s | | | Karin Grupp 1:!5.5, Barbro Eriksson 1:23.0, Karin Seinback 1:10.6, Ann-Christine Hageberg 1:03.8 | | 6. |  Soviet Union | 4:56.3 | | +16.2s | | | Kaleriya Yegorova 1:18.1, Halyna Prozumenshikova 1:20.2, Zinaida Belovetskaya 1:14.8, Nataliya Ustinova 1:04.2 | | 7. |  Italy | 5:05.2 | | +25.1s | | | Paola Saini 1:16.4, Luciana Marcellini 1:25.9, Anna Beneck 1:16.1, Daniela Beneck 1:06.8 | | 8. |  France | 5:06.0 | | +25.9s | | | Rosy Piacentini 1:13.2, Michele Pialat 1:23.4, Colette Libourel 1:@1.9, Heda Frost 1:07.5 |
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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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