Rank | Bib | Country | Athlete | Time | Deficit |
| 1 | Finland | Pirjo Muranen Virpi Kuitunen Riitta-Liisa Roponen Aino-Kaisa Saarinen | 54:24.3 14:11.2 13:57.2 13:41.2 12:34.7 | — |
| 2 | Germany | Katrin Zeller Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Miriam Gössner Claudia Nystad | 54:37.3 14:34.7 14:44.9 12:37.9 12:39.8 | +13.0 |
| 4 | Sweden | Lina Andersson Britta Johansson Norgren Anna Haag Charlotte Kalla | 54:37.7 14:33.0 14:38.6 13:09.3 12:16.8 | +13.4 |
4 | 3 | Norway | Marit Bjørgen Therese Johaug Kristin Størmer Steira Marthe Kristoffersen | 54:40.4 14:19.9 14:20.3 13:01.2 12:59.0 | +16.1 |
5 | 6 | Italy | Antonella Confortola Wyatt Marianna Longa Sabina Valbusa Arianna Follis | 55:16.8 15:13.0 14:07.7 13:19.7 12:36.4 | +52.5 |
6 | 15 | Poland | Justyna Kowalczyk Kornelia Marek Sylwia Jaśkowiec Paulina Maciuszek | 55:36.4 14:06.9 15:07.6 12:42.2 13:39.7 | +1:12.1 |
7 | 8 | Japan | Madoka Natsumi Masako Ishida Michito Kashiwabara Nobuko Fukuda | 55:40.4 14:43.5 14:07.1 13:28.9 13:20.9 | +1:16.1 |
8 | 14 | France | Élodie Bourgeois-Pin Karine Laurent Philippot Coraline Hugue Célia Bourgeois | 56:04.4 15:14.8 14:31.4 13:08.1 13:10.1 | +1:40.1 |
9 | 11 | Belarus | Olga Vasiljonok Alena Sannikova Ekaterina Rudakova Viktoria Lopatina | 56:49.1 15:15.4 14:33.9 13:38.7 13:21.1 | +2:24.8 |
10 | 9 | Kazakhstan | Tatyana Roshchina Elena Kolomina Svetlana Malakhova-Shishkina Oxana Yatskaya | 56:55.7 15:57.3 14:47.5 13:12.4 12:58.5 | +2:31.4 |
11 | 10 | Ukraine | Vita Yakymchuk Lada Nesterenko Maryna Antsybor Valentyna Shevchenko | 57:19.1 15:33.0 15:36.3 13:26.7 12:43.1 | +2:54.8 |
12 | 5 | Czech Republic | Eva Skalníková Kamila Rajdlová Ivana Janečková Helena Erbenová | 57:33.4 16:16.7 14:30.9 13:26.3 13:19.5 | +3:09.1 |
13 | 12 | United States | Kikkan Randall Morgan Arritola Elizabeth Stephen Caitlin Compton | 57:40.7 14:34.1 15:11.3 13:25.2 14:30.1 | +3:16.4 |
14 | 13 | Estonia | Kaija Udras Triin Ojaste Tatjana Mannima Kaili Sirge | 58:10.0 15:12.7 15:02.7 14:05.9 13:48.7 | +3:45.7 |
| 7 | Russia | Alyona Sidko Olga Rocheva Yuliya Chepalova Yevgeniya Medvedeva | DSQ | — |