Silver went to Greg Best of the United States, with bronze to Karsten Huck of West Germany.

The field was considered open, with top riders (including 1986 World Champion Gail Greenough of Canada and 1987 World Cup winner Katharine Burdsall of the United States) not competing.

[2] All times are Korea Standard Time adjusted for daylight savings (UTC+10) Bourdy (France), Brinkmann (West Germany), and Pyrah (Great Britain) did not advance due to the limit of three pairs per nation.

Bourdy was tied for 8th in the qualifying round; Cottier and Durand had lower scores than him but advanced instead.

Durand, 18th overall and 4th among French riders in qualifying, ran both rounds of the final without any jumping penalties and finished with a total of 1.25 faults from time to win the gold medal.

Huck had led the first round of the final, with a completely clean run (0 faults) to Durand's 0.25 time faults, and went last in the second round of the final knowing that Durand had reached the 1.25 total.