| Equestrian at the 1964 Summer Olympics | ||
|---|---|---|
 | ||
| Dressage | individual | team |
| Eventing | individual | team |
| Jumping | individual | team |
The team eventing was an equestrian event held as part of the Equestrian at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme. The event was held from 16 to 19 October, and consisted merely of summing the scores of the team's top 3 (out of 4) horse and rider pairs in the individual eventing. [1]
 |  |  |
| Mauro Checcoli on Surbean, Paolo Angioni on King, and Giuseppe Ravano on Royal Love  | Michael Page on The Grasshopper , Kevin Freeman on Gallopade, and Michael Plumb on Bold Minstrel  | Fritz Ligges on Donkosak, Horst Karsten on Condora, and Gerhard Schulz on Balza X  |
| |  | -85.80 | -64.40 |
| -17.87 | ||
| -3.53 | ||
| |  | -65.86 | -47.40 |
| -17.13 | ||
| -1.33 | ||
| |  | -56.73 | -49.20 |
| -36.60 | ||
| 29.07 | ||
| 4. |  | -42.86 | -46.53 |
| -1.13 | ||
| 4.80 | ||
| 5. |  | 19.63 | -23.47 |
| 10.97 | ||
| 32.13 | ||
| 6. |  | 34.80 | -56.40 |
| 2.73 | ||
| 88.47 | ||
| 7. |  | 67.27 | -32.20 |
| -8.40 | ||
| 107.87 | ||
| 8. |  | 133.87 | 37.87 |
| 38.47 | ||
| 57.53 | ||
| 9. |  | 374.14 | 36.40 |
| 159.67 | ||
| 178.07 | ||
| — |  | — | -29.73 |
| -26.20 | ||
| DNF | ||
| — |  | — | 268.47 |
| DNF | ||
| DNF | ||
| — |  | — | DNF |
| DNF | ||
| DNF | ||
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