The final stage of the 2010 Rowing World Cup concluded this afternoon with a fourth consecutive overall win by Great Britain.
The British team clocked up a total of 231 points over the entire series, putting them well in the lead ahead of Germany (109 points) and New Zealand (85 points). The Brits tallied eleven medals in Lucerne and head home with eight small crystal cups awarding the overall boat class winner.
The Blue Riband events, World Rowing's flagship boat categories of the men's and women's eight and the men's and women's single, were raced at the end of the session.
The USA women's eight took gold by a mere bow ball ahead of Canada and Great Britain. Canada had led the race, but in a steady game of catch up in the last 500m, the USA got ahead, winning by 20 hundredths of a second.
In the women's single, Belarus' nearly unbeaten Ekaterina Karsten did not disappoint in what was a rather close race for a women's single final, finishing with a lead of just above two seconds' over the Czech Republic's Mirka Knapkova. Frida Svensson of Sweden gets her first World Cup medal since 2007.
The men's single is taken by Czech Republic's Ondrej Synek, who has been steadily in the lead since the first stage of the series in May and wins the overall World Cup in this boat class. Alan Campbell of Great Britain takes silver and Mahe Drysdale, who made his first appearance in the 2010 World Cup series in Lucerne due to injury earlier in the year takes bronze.
Germany's "Deutschlandachter" pulled off their second win of the season in a race in which they took the lead from the 500m mark. Despite high stroke rates and some solid battles to try and get ahead from Great Britain and Canada, Germany still collect gold on the podium, with Australia and Great Britain closely behind.
For a full detailed race report of all other events please go to www.worldrowing.com . Results can be accessed in the results database website from the homepage.
Re-watch all the action of the final races as video on demand on World Rowing Live (accessible from the www.worldrowing.com homepage).
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