Rowing World Cup: Great Britain win six golds in Lucerne

The quadruple skulls team were joined on top of the podium by the men’s quad sculls of Cedol Dafydd, Callum Dixon, Tobias Schroder and Rory Harris.

They built a commanding lead through the first three-quarters of the race to hold off the charging Netherlands boat with Germany in third.

Daniel Graham, James Robson, Douwe de Graaf and George Bourne were again in fine form in the men’s fours final, taking a small clear water lead by halfway and continuing to stretch out that advantage in the third quarter of the race.

The world champions won by a very small amount of clear water from Romania.

A well-paced and patient race from Lauren Henry gave her the win in the women’s single sculls, with world champion Fiona Murtagh from Ireland finishing second.

Great Britain also won the women’s eight as the crew of Elizabeth Witt, Jade Lindo, Amelia Standing, Katherine George, Lauren Irwin, Annie Campbell-Orde, Heidi Long, Megan Slabbert and cox Jack Tottem took the lead and never relinquished it, beating Australia and the USA.

The sixth gold for Great Britain was won by Benjamin Pritchard in the PR1 men’s single sculls

The Paralympic and world champion came back from an early deficit to defeat world bronze medallist Erik Horrie from Australia.

There was also a silver medal for the men’s eight behind the Netherlands and bronze for the women’s four.

Meanwhile, the USA were confirmed as the World Rowing Cup winner for 2026, with 114 points from their visits to Plovdiv and Lucerne.

On the back of the outstanding performance in Lucerne, GB came second with 94 points, pipping the Netherlands by a point. However, GB nor the Netherlands competed in Plovdiv.