After exchanging the lead with the Netherlands, the men rose during the 2,000-meter race’s third quarter.
The British boat met the challenge and won by 1.08 seconds in five and 22.8 seconds, despite the Netherlands’ best efforts to fight back.
The team celebrated a spectacular victory, Cox Harry Brightmore and Sholto Carnegie in the bow seat leaped to their feet and roared with delight.
When they finally reached shore. The eight—Sholto Carnegie, Rory Gibbs, Morgan Bolding, Jacob Dawson, Charlie Elwes, Tom Digby, James Rudkin and Tom Ford shared a tearful embrace.
Before the Games, Rudkin summarised the team’s mentality as “one engine, one machine,” the crew added the Olympic title to their string of victories in the world and Europe.
Britain finishes with eight medals, the most for an overseas Games since London 2012. When they won nine on home water, thanks to their victories on the last day of the rowing competition.
After only winning two gold medals in the rowing competition in Tokyo and placing 14th overall. Britain has made an incredible comeback.
They finish second in the medal table behind the Dutch. Who won the same number of golds but four. Here in Paris they have three golds, two silvers, and three bronzes.
Two of the ten British crews the men’s and women’s pairs, narrowly missed out on winning gold. While eight of the crews took home medals.
Within twenty minutes of his younger sister Emily’s bronze in the women’s race, Tom Ford won gold.
After winning silver in the women’s eights at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Britain has only won two medals in the event. This bronze.
Coxed by Henry Fieldman, Heidi Long, Rowan McKellar, Holly Dunford, Emily Ford, Lauren Irwin, Eve Stewart, Harriet Taylor and Annie Campbell-Orde fought their way to the finish line. Trailing only Romanian champions and Tokyo winners Canada.
After leading the men’s eight to bronze in Tokyo. Fieldman—the first man to cox a female boat at an Olympics—now holds two medals.
