La Coppa del mondo di atletica leggera 1985 fu la quarta edizione della Coppa del mondo di atletica leggera e si tenne al Canberra Stadium, in Australia, dal 4 al 6 ottobre 1985.
Gli Stati Uniti vinsero la classifica maschile mentre la competizione femminie fu vinta per la terza edizione consecutiva dalla Germania Est.
Pos. | Sq. | Atleta | Ris. | 1 | USA | Harvey Glance, Kirk Baptiste, Calvin Smith, Dwayne Evans | 38.10 WL | 2 | AME | Desai Williams, Robson da Silva, Leandro Peñalver, Ben Johnson | 38.31 | 3 | URS | Nikolaj Jušmanov, Aleksandr Semënov, Aleksandr Evgen'ev, Vladimir Murav'ëv | 38.35 | 4 | RDA | Heiko Truppel, Steffen Bringmann, Torsten Heimrath, Frank Emmelmann | 38.39 | 5 | EUR | Antonio Ullo, Stefano Tilli, Pierfrancesco Pavoni, Carlo Simionato | 38.76 | 6 | OCE | Robert Stone, Peter Van Miltenberg, Clayton Kearney, Gerrard Keating | 39.35 | 7 | AFR | Victor Edet, Ikpoto Eseme, Iziak Adeyanju, Chidi Imoh | 39.55 | 8 | ASI | Li Feng, Cai Jianming, Yu Zhuanghui, Zheng Cheng | 39.74 | | | Pos. | Sq. | Atleta | Ris. | 1 | RDA | Silke Gladisch, Sabine Rieger, Ingrid Auerswald, Marlies Göhr | 41.37 WR | 2 | URS | Antonina Nastoburko, Natal'ja Bočina, Marina Žirova, Ėl'vira Barbašina | 42.54 | 3 | EUR | Iwona Pakula, Ginka Zagorcheva, Ewa Pisiewicz, Ewa Kaspryzk | 43.38 | 4 | AME | Angela Phipps, Grace Jackson, Esmie Lawrence, Molly Killingbeck | 43.39 | 5 | USA | Pamela Page, Susan Shurr, Ella Smith, Pam Marshall | 44.03 | 6 | AFR | Grace Armah, Doris Wiredu, Cynthia Quartey, Martha Appiah | 44.76 | 7 | ASI | Zhang Jianmei, Pan Weixin, Tian Yumei, Liu Huajin | 45.16 | | OCE | Kerry Johnson, Maree Chapman, Jenny Flaherty, Andrea Wade | DQ | |
Pos. | Sq. | Atleta | Ris. | 1 | USA | Walter McCoy, André Phillips, Ray Armstead, Michael Franks | 3:00.71 | 2 | RDA | Frank Möller, Matthias Schersing, Guido Lieske, Thomas Schönlebe | 3:00.82 | 3 | OCE | Bruce Frayne, Gary Minihan, Alan Ozolins, Darren Clark | 3:01.35 | 4 | EUR | Pierfrancesco Pavoni, Klaus Just, Jörg Vaihinger, Angel Heras | 3:01.46 | 5 | URS | Aleksandr Troščilo, Aleksandr Vasil'ev, Vladimir Prosin, Vladimir Krylov | 3:03.17 | 6 | AME | Leandro Peñalver, Ian Morris, Héctor Daley, Roberto Hernández | 3:03.52 | 7 | ASI | Takeo Suzuki, Abdul Yussouf, Hiromi Kawasumi, Mohammed Al-Malky | 3:10.20 | | AFR | Sunday Uti, David Kitur, Gabriel Tiacoh, Innocent Egbunike | DQ | | | Pos. | Sq. | Atleta | Ris. | 1 | RDA | Kirsten Emmelmann, Sabine Busch, Dagmar Neubauer, Marita Koch | 3:19.49 CR | 2 | URS | Tat'jana Alekseeva, Irina Nazarova, Marija Pinigina, Ol'ga Vladykina | 3:20.60 | 3 | EUR | Rositsa Stamenova, Erica Rossi, Alena Bulirová, Jarmila Kratochvílová | 3:28.47 | 4 | AME | Norfalia Carabalí, Jocelyn Joseph, Molly Killingbeck, Ana Fidelia Quirot | 3:29.34 | 5 | USA | Susan Shurr, Judi Brown-King, Roberta Belle, Lillie Leatherwood | 3:30.99 | 6 | OCE | Sharon Stewart, Andrea Wade, Maree Chapman, Debbie Flintoff-King | 3:35.93 | 7 | AFR | Nawal El Moutawakel, Airat Bakare, Kehinde Vaughan, Doris Wiredu | 3:36.86 | 8 | ASI | Vandana Rao, Emma Tahapary, Shiny Abraham, Pilavullakandi Usha | 3:37.59 | |