All four of the GB Rowing Team open weight women's crews won medals today in Munich at the season's final world cup at which Britain won eight medals - three of them golds. There were stand-out performances from the women's pair of Helen Glover, who celebrated her birthday today, and Heather Stanning as well as from the women's double scull of Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins. Both crews are unbeaten this season and each has racked up a hat-trick of world cup golds. "That was a cracking race. The ones where you are pushed are always the most satisfying to win. The Australians put in a fast time earlier this weekend so we knew we had to bring our A game out to play today", said Watkins who is coached with Grainger by Paul Thompson, Britain's Chief Coach for women and lightweights. Britain's lightweight men's four also put in an eye-catching performance to take gold. "We are such a strong crew", said Richard Chambers who was clearly pleased that his younger sibling Peter is back in the crew after a brief spell out with injury, joining him and Chris Bartley and Rob Williams. The Chinese were missing from today's field which otherwise included all the top crews. The GB men's four of Andrew Triggs Hodge, Tom James, Alex Gregory and Pete Reed remained relatively upbeat despite taking silver in a narrow defeat to Australia. "We are still part of an incredibly successful GB squad now it's the same as always. We go away to training camp and will put in the hard work and attention to detail in the six weeks before the Games begin", said Andrew Hodge. Britain's other medals were all bronze from the women's quadruple scull, women's and men's eight, and Alan Campbell in the men's single. "We've actually had a good day with some excellent results. Many crews have stepped on from the last world cup. We've also had some disappointments", said David Tanner, the GB Rowing Team Performance Director. "I'd like to say a big congratulations to the women's squad on their medals. There were outstanding performances in the women's double and pair and also from the lightweight men's four". The disappointments included another sixth place for Olympic Champions Mark Hunter and Zac Purchase in the lightweight men's double scull. "I know we were sixth both here and in Lucerne but we have moved on a lot. We had the speed but not the fitness". Yesterday Britain also won golds in the mixed adaptive coxed four and lightweight men's pair as well as a bronze in the adaptive men's single scull.
Britain has now won the overall world cup for the season with Germany second and New Zealand third.
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