The Irish team have won the final round of the FEI Eventing Nations Cup Series at Boekelo, Netherlands.
Leading the way overall after Saturday's impressive cross-country phase, which had followed the two-day dressage section, Paris 2024 Olympians Aoife Clark, Susie Berry and Austin O'Connor - as well as Rio 2016 participant Padraig McCarthy - extended their advantage after Sunday's show jumping round.
The Irish team finished with a final score of 102.6, leaving them 13.5 penalties clear of second-placed USA, while Germany finished third on 131.9.
This year's FEI Eventing Nations Cup Series was slated to run over eight rounds with Boekelo as the finale but only seven rounds ultimately went ahead following the cancellation of the Chatsworth International Horse Trials in Derbyshire in May due to heavy rain.
The Millstreet International Horse Trials in Cork hosted the next round two weeks later, with Ireland winning on home soil.
With all seven rounds of this year's series complete, Team France are FEI Eventing Nations Cup Series champions for 2024, while Ireland have finished fifth overall.
Speaking after the prize-giving ceremony at the Boekelo venue, Horse Sport Ireland high performance eventing director Dag Albert paid tribute to the team.
"We are delighted," he said.
"This was all about the team. Every one of them did an important job. The whole way through, they were performing class and that is the reason we got the result. Conditions have been very hard, with lots of rain and the organisers deserve a lot of credit for sorting out the track.
"It started for us with a very solid dressage and that was very important for us. The four of them were really solid there and we weren't far behind so we knew then we had a chance if everything went right.
"We had three great rounds in the cross-country and that put us in a very strong position. Then we had three great rounds in the show jumping. So it’s great.
"We are building good depth. That’s been the aim from the start and we’ve a good bunch now. We had a big team of individual riders here as well and most of them performed really well, with two maybe a little unlucky.
"We are going onto Lyon next week with the young horses and it’s Pau the week after for the five-star, when we’ll have around ten going. So we’re getting better all over."
