Britain's showjumpers won their first world team medal in 24 years and banked an Olympic quota place on a dramatic night in Herning, Denmark.
Olympic champions Ben Maher and Scott Brash joined forces with young pretenders Harry Charles and Joseph Stockdale to win bronze.
It was Britain's first global team medal since Rome 1998 - won by Nick Skelton, John Whitaker, Geoff Billington and Di Lampard, Britain's chef d'equipe here.
Brash said: “The lads were brilliant, they really dug deep. It’s great for the two young lads pulling out great scores there today – I’m delighted for the team.”
The top five highest-ranked teams in the competition, excluding host country France, secured a team quota place for Paris 2024.
The quartet's success on the global stage ensures that Team GB will be represented in team jumping and hold up to three entries in the individual event at the iconic Château de Versailles in two years' time.
Maher, individual Olympic gold medallist in Tokyo, and 12-year-old Faltic HB set the tone for the British team.
The 39-year-old recovered from four very early faults to put in a superb, smooth round and tot up a new personal score of 5.42.
Maher said: “That course is a long way after the first fence down, but I just told myself to settle down and jump one jump at a time, and he jumped unbelievably, he jumped fantastic. Faltic’s done an amazing job this week and he’s really proved that he’s a championship horse."
Senior championship debutants Stockdale and Equine America Cacharel also staged a rousing recovery having brought down three fences on Friday.
Despite one unlucky pole on fence nine, Stockdale pulled it round to keep the team in contention.
He said: “The guys on the team have been amazing. I was really kicking myself last night and I don’t want to let them down.
"They didn’t turn their backs on me and they’ve been supporting me all day. Really, I put a lot down to them – they’ve helped me out."
Harry Charles and Romeo 88 delivered a perfect round but in the fourth rotation, Scott Brash and Hello Jefferson dislodged a back bar at fence nine.
Brash said: "I was pretty disappointed with that, he came in tense and I wasn’t really happy with it. I think the tension came through into the ring and we didn’t do our best round – it wasn’t bad considering, though. Jefferson has been amazing – he still is amazing.”
Poles kept hitting the sand and the final French rider sent them tumbling as a historic bronze passed into British hands at the last moment.
Maher and Brash rank eighth and 13th in the individual competition and remain in with a shout of a medal tomorrow.
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