Pride of place this week goes to City of Oxford, who collected six medals - three of them gold - at the three-day National Championships in Nottinghham, writes Mike Rosewell.

The hat-trick of golds came in the women's junior fours, the women's junior 14 doubles and the multi-winning Holly Holden in the women's junior 16 singles.

The women's junior four's performance was good enough for them to be selected to race for England in the Home Countries match.

City's other medals came as silvers for the women's coxed four and the men's quad scull and a bronze for the women's junior 16 coxed four.

Other local club successes came for Wallingford with a silver and a bronze in the men's junior doubles and men's junior 15 quad sculls.

Medals also materialised from the World Under 23 Championships in Brandenburg, Germany.

Kirsty Myles, Vicky Bryant and Abingdon-based Rachael Jefferies, all from Oxford Brookes, won bronze medals for the second year running in Britain's women's four.

Ben Smith, a product of St Edward's, Oxford and an Oxford Blue, also came home with a bronze success from the men's pairs.

Five locals will be in action this week in Austria at the World Championships.

Andrea Dennis and Laura Greenhalgh - both Oxford residents and with Dennis as a Wallingford member - race in the senior women's team quad scull.

Three youngsters, Fearghus Raftery and Max Gander from Abingdon School, and Stewart Innes, from St Edward's are in the junior men's eight, coxed four and pair respectively.