| Date | 26 July 1996 | |
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| Location | Lake Sidney Lanier, Gainesville, Georgia | |
| Format | Top 3 in each heat advanced to the final round. | |
| Time | 10:20 |
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| Pos | Lane | Competitors | NOC | Time | 500 m | 1,000 m | 1,500 m | 500-1,000 m | 1,000-1,500 m | 1,500-2,000 m | |||||
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| 1 | 4 | Italy |  ITA | 5:57.10 | 1:26.54 (1) | 2:56.81 (1) | 4:27.53 (1) | 1:30.27 (1) | 1:30.72 (1) | 1:29.57 (4) | |||||
| Massimo Paradiso • Alessio Sartori • Rossano Galtarossa • Alessandro Corona | |||||||||||||||
| 2 | 3 | Australia |  AUS | 5:58.41 | 1:27.78 (3) | 2:58.99 (3) | 4:30.22 (3) | 1:31.21 (2) | 1:31.23 (3) | 1:28.19 (2) | |||||
| Janusz Hooker • Duncan Free • Ron Snook • Bo Hanson | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | Switzerland |  SUI | 5:59.63 | 1:28.44 (5) | 3:00.52 (4) | 4:32.54 (4) | 1:32.08 (4) | 1:32.02 (4) | 1:27.09 (1) | |||||
| Simon Stürm • Ueli Bodenmann • Michael Erdlen • René Benguerel | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | 5 | Russian Federation |  RUS | 5:59.91 | 1:27.21 (2) | 2:58.73 (2) | 4:29.70 (2) | 1:31.52 (3) | 1:30.97 (2) | 1:30.21 (5) | |||||
| Nikolay Spinev • Igor Kravtsov • Georgy Nikitin • Vladimir Sokolov | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | 6 | France |  FRA | 6:03.74 | 1:28.08 (4) | 3:01.87 (5) | 4:34.46 (5) | 1:33.79 (5) | 1:32.59 (5) | 1:29.28 (3) | |||||
| Yves Lamarque • Vincent Lepvraud • Sébastien Vieilledent • Fabrice LeClerc | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | 1 | Belarus |  BLR | 6:15.07 | 1:29.02 (6) | 3:03.40 (6) | 4:38.51 (6) | 1:34.38 (6) | 1:35.11 (6) | 1:36.56 (6) | |||||
| Kanstantsin Belevich • Siarhei Tarasevich • Aleh Solomakhin • Dzianis Tabaka | |||||||||||||||
| Time | 10:30 |
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| Pos | Lane | Competitors | NOC | Time | 500 m | 1,000 m | 1,500 m | 500-1,000 m | 1,000-1,500 m | 1,500-2,000 m | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | Germany |  GER | 5:55.10 | 1:27.58 (1) | 2:57.28 (1) | 4:26.65 (1) | 1:29.70 (1) | 1:29.37 (1) | 1:28.45 (2) | |||||
| André Steiner • Stephan Volkert • Andreas Hajek • André Willms | |||||||||||||||
| 2 | 4 | United States |  USA | 5:57.97 | 1:28.94 (3) | 2:59.70 (3) | 4:29.54 (2) | 1:30.76 (3) | 1:29.84 (2) | 1:28.43 (1) | |||||
| Tim Young • Brian Jamieson • Eric Mueller • Jason Gailes | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | 5 | Sweden |  SWE | 6:00.09 | 1:28.66 (2) | 2:59.22 (2) | 4:29.80 (3) | 1:30.56 (2) | 1:30.58 (3) | 1:30.29 (3) | |||||
| Johan Flodin • Pontus Ek • Fredrik Hultén • Henrik Nilsson | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | 2 | Netherlands |  NED | 6:03.72 | 1:30.51 (6) | 3:02.24 (6) | 4:33.13 (5) | 1:31.73 (4) | 1:30.89 (4) | 1:30.59 (4) | |||||
| Sander van der Marck • Adri Middag • Joris Loefs • Pieter van Andel | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | 1 | Ukraine |  UKR | 6:05.65 | 1:29.72 (5) | 3:01.53 (4) | 4:32.92 (4) | 1:31.81 (5) | 1:31.39 (5) | 1:32.73 (5) | |||||
| Oleksandr Marchenko • Oleksandr Zaskalko • Mykola Chupryna • Leonid Shaposhnykov | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | 6 | Poland |  POL | 6:11.62 | 1:29.45 (4) | 3:01.93 (5) | 4:34.53 (6) | 1:32.48 (6) | 1:32.60 (6) | 1:37.09 (6) | |||||
| Jarosław Nowicki • Przemysław Lewandowski • Marek Kolbowicz • Piotr Bujnarowski | |||||||||||||||
