British men's four strike gold

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The crew of Steve Williams, stroke Andy Triggs Hodge, Pete Reed and Tom James came from nearly a length back to secure Britain's third consecutive Olympic title in the event with a dramatic sprint to the line.

Williams is now a double Olympic champion having been part of the victorious men's four at the last Games in Athens.

The Australians were beaten into second place with France third.

Earlier Britons Elise Laverick and Anna Bebington conjured up a storming surge to take the bronze in a dramatic finish to the women's doubles sculls.

Then Matt Wells and Stephen Rowbotham made it a double celebration when they too came third in the men's double sculls.

Laverick and Bebington missed out on gold by just 0.23 seconds with New Zealand twins Georgina and Caroline Evers-Swindell successfully defending their Olympic title but only by one hundredth of a second from Germany's Annekatrin Thiele and Christiane Huth.

Wells and Rowbotham also pushed their opposition close, finishing just 1.33 seconds behind gold medallists David Crawshaw and Scott Brennan from Australia and Estonia's Tonu Endrekson and Juri Jaanson.