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Soviet Union |
 URS |
2:58.09 |
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Nina Antonyuk / Tatyana Stetsenko / Nadezhda Dergachenko / Valentina Yermakova / Mariya Pazyun / Yelena Teryoshina / Nina Umanets / Olga Pivovarova / Nina Frolova * |
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East Germany |
 GDR |
2:59.36 |
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Martina Boesler / Silvia Fröhlich / Petra Köhler / Jutta Raeck / Renate Neu / Ilona Richter / Ramona Kapheim / Karin Metze / Marina Wilke * |
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United States |
 USA |
2:59.91 |
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Carol Brown / Carol Bower / Susan Tuttle / Jeanne Flanagan / Patricia Brink / Patricia Spratlen / Jan Harville / Mary O'Connor / Hollis Hatton * |
YUG