| | Event type
Team, Open
| Date | 31 July 1980 — 9:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Konnosportivny kompleks profsoyuzov, Bittsevsky park, Moskva | |
| Participants | 12 from 4 countries | |
| Format | Three rider teams, all three scores to count. Team/individual competitions held concurrently. | |
| Judge E | Erich Heinrich |  GDR |
| Judge H | Jytte Lemkow |  DEN |
| Judge C | Jaap Pot |  NED |
| Judge M | Gustaf Nyblaeus |  SWE |
| Judge B | Tilo Koeppel |  COL |
Only four teams were entered, and the event was basically a junior varsity competition. The Soviets won the gold medal, followed by Bulgaria and Romania, with Poland in fourth. This is the only equestrian medal ever won by Bulgaria at the Olympics, while Romania did win a silver medal in 1936 in individual jumping. At the Goodwood Dressage Festival, held concurrently with the Olympics, West Germany, the pre-eminent nation in this discipline, won the gold medal, followed by Switzerland and Denmark.
| Pos | Number | Competitors | Horse | NOC | Points | Judge #1 Scores | Judge #2 Scores | Judges #3 Scores | Judge #4 Scores | Judge #5 Scores | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | – | Soviet Union |  URS | 4,383 | – | – | – | – | – | Gold | |||
| 67 | Yury Kovshov | Igrok | 1,588 | 313 | 312 | 311 | 333 | 319 | |||||
| 73 | Viktor Ugryumov | Shkval | 1,541 | 310 | 313 | 301 | 291 | 326 | |||||
| 68 | Vera Misevich | Plot | 1,254 | 239 | 252 | 263 | 231 | 269 | |||||
| 64 | Irina Karacheva DNS | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||
| 2 | – | Bulgaria |  BUL | 3,580 | – | – | – | – | – | Silver | |||
| 11 | Petar Mandadzhiev | Schibor | 1,244 | 236 | 262 | 244 | 254 | 248 | |||||
| 8 | Svetoslav Ivanov | Aleko | 1,190 | 228 | 232 | 239 | 240 | 251 | |||||
| 6 | Georgi Gadzhev | Vnimatelen | 1,146 | 241 | 209 | 223 | 216 | 257 | |||||
| 15 | Borislav Todorov DNS | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||
| 3 | – | Romania |  ROU | 3,346 | – | – | – | – | – | Bronze | |||
| 55 | Anghel Donescu | Dor | 1,255 | 239 | 253 | 258 | 273 | 232 | |||||
| 60 | Dumitru Velicu | Decebal | 1,076 | 225 | 194 | 225 | 208 | 224 | |||||
| 58 | Petre Roșca | Derbist | 1,015 | 228 | 179 | 224 | 191 | 193 | |||||
| 60 | Dumitru Velea DNS | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||||
| 4 | – | Poland |  POL | 2,945 | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 84 | Józef Zagor | Helios | 1,061 | 205 | 202 | 229 | 207 | 218 | |||||
| 83 | Elżbieta Morciniec | Sum | 954 | 183 | 181 | 208 | 167 | 215 | |||||
| 80 | Wanda Wąsowska | Damask | 930 | 173 | 174 | 193 | 184 | 206 | |||||
| 82 | Bogusław Misztal DNS | – | – | – | – | – | – |