Olympics Rio 2016: GB miss out on medals in men's quad skulls and men's pair finals

ByEurosport

Updated 11/08/2016 at 15:32 GMT

Great Britain missed out on a medal in the men's quad final as they finished fifth behind winners Germany, who defended their Olympic title with Australia second and Estonia third.

Great Britain's Peter Lambert, Great Britain's Angus Groom, Great Britain's Sam Townsend and Great Britain's Jack Beaumont row.

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It is Germany's first gold medal in rowing at these Game, but they worthy winners leading from start to finish to emulate their success from London 2012 in the quadruple skulls.

Great Britain's crew of Jack Beaumont, Sam Townsend, Angus Groom and Peter Lambert started the final strongly, but faded in the second half of the race, eventually finishing two-and-a-half seconds behind third-placed Estonia.

The German crew of Philip Wende, Lauritz Schoof, Karl Schulze and Hans Gruhne led from the start on the Rodrigo de Freitas Lagoon. They finished in 6 minutes 6.81 seconds, 1.15 seconds ahead of the Australians.

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The Australian boat crewed by Karsten Forsterling, Alexander Belonogoff, Cameron Girdlestone, James McCrae lagged until the halfway point when they moved up to challenge the Gerrmans.

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Heavy favourites Eric Murray and Hamish Bond of New Zealand did not disappoint on Thursday, claiming gold in the men's pair at the Olympic rowing regatta and extending their long-standing unbeaten streak.

Bond and Murray, who took gold in the event at 2012's London Games, had broken away with a commanding lead by the race's midway point, only widening the distance between themselves and the rest of the pack as the race went on.

Eric Murray (NZL) of New Zealand and Hamish Bond (NZL) of New Zealand celebrate their gold medals.

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The real excitement came in the second-place race, with South Africa, Britain and Italy all looking to be contenders for the silver as the pack headed into the home stretch. A vocal South African crowd cheered wildly as their home-country boat clinched second place. Italy took bronze.

Croatia edge past Lithuania in Double Sculls

The victory reaffirmed Murray and Bond's status as one the greatest rowing partnerships of all time. They have not lost a race since they teamed up in 2009.

There was also disappointment for GB in the Double sculls event as they finished fifth. Croatian brothers Martin and Valent Sinkovic took the gold medal after battling Lithuania's boat neck-and-neck for much of the race. Ultimately, Croatia won in a time of 6:50.28, Lithuania claimed silver in 6:51.39 and Norway took bronze.

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Great Britain produced a winning time of 6:17 in the second semi-final, but they were six seconds slower than Australia's four claiming victory in the first semi-final.

But GB were quicker at the 500m and 1000m splits, with Britain's Alex Gregory, Mohamed Sbihi, George Nash and Constantine Louloudis recording times of 1:29 at 500m and 3:02 at 1000m compared to Australia's splits of 1:29 and 3:02.

Britain's Alex Gregory, Britain's Mohamed Sbihi, Britain's George Nash and Britain's Constantine Louloudis row during the Men's Four rowing competition at the Lagoa stadium.

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It looks a tight call in Friday's final.

In the lightweight men's four, Switzerland fought off Denmark to take gold on Thursday. France won the bronze medal.

Semi-final 2

1. Britain Alex Gregory/Mohamed Sbihi/George Nash/Constantine Louloudis 6 minutes 17.13 seconds Q
2. Canada Will Crothers/Tim Schrijver/Conlin McCabe/Kai Langerfeld 6:20.66 Q
3. Netherlands Harold Langen/Peter van Schie/Vincent van der Want/Govert Viergever 6:21.04 Q
4. Belarus Vadzim Lialin/Dzianis Mihal/Mikalai Sharlap/Ihar Pashevich 6:22.46
5. France Benjamin Lang/Mickael Marteau/Valentin Onfroy/Theophile Onfroy 6:26.94
6. Germany Maximilian Korge/Max Planer/Anton Braun/Felix Wimberger 6:35.90

Semi-final 1

1. Australia William Lockwood/Josh Dunkley-Smith/Joshua Booth/Alexander Hill 6:11.82 Q
2. South Africa David Hunt/Jonathan Alain Smith/Vincent Anthony Breet/Jake Green 6:15.22 Q
3. Italy Domenico Montrone/Matteo Castaldo/Matteo Lodo/Giuseppe Vicino 6:16.54 Q
4. U.S. Henrik Rummel/Matthew Miller/Charlie Cole/Seth Weil 6:19.08
5. Greece Dionysios Angelopoulos/Ioannis Tsilis/Georgios Tziallas/Ioannis Christou 6:24.04
6. Russia Artem Kosov/Anton Zarutski/Vladislav Ryabcev/Nikita Morgachev 6:24.89

Qualified for Next Round

1. Australia William Lockwood/Josh Dunkley-Smith/Joshua Booth/Alexander Hill 6 minutes 11.82 seconds
2. Britain Alex Gregory/Mohamed Sbihi/George Nash/Constantine Louloudis 6:17.13
3. South Africa David Hunt/Jonathan Alain Smith/Vincent Anthony Breet/Jake Green 6:15.22
4. Canada Will Crothers/Tim Schrijver/Conlin McCabe/Kai Langerfeld 6:20.66
5. Italy Domenico Montrone/Matteo Castaldo/Matteo Lodo/Giuseppe Vicino 6:16.54
6. Netherlands Harold Langen/Peter van Schie/Vincent van der Want/Govert Viergever 6:21.04

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