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East Germany |
 GDR |
5:39.01 |
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Jürgen Arndt / Gottfried Döhn / Dieter Wendisch / Friedrich-Wilhelm Ulrich / Werner Klatt / Roland Kostulski / Ulrich Karnatz / Karl-Heinz Prudöhl / Klaus-Dieter Ludwig * |
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Soviet Union |
 URS |
5:41.34 |
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Igor Konnov / Aleksandr Plyushkin / Yevgeny Yankovsky / Vasily Potapov / Nikolay Ivanov / Vladimir Vasilyev / Antanas Čikotas / Anatoly Nititrev / Igor Rudakov * |
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New Zealand |
 NZL |
5:43.61 |
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Grant McAuley / Alec McLean / Dave Rodger / Joe Earl / Lew Wilson / Ross Collinge / Trevor Coker / Peter Dignan / David Simmons * |
GBR