Oct 14,2024
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 dressage, 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.
