The famous Eton Dorney roar was heard again as Great Britain won four gold medals, five silvers and two bronze, in last week’s World Cup Regatta, writes Mike Rosewell.

Two of their golds came via two well-known Oxfordshire performers, Frances Houghton and Andy Triggs Hodge.

Houghton, from Wheatley – with four Olympics and two Olympic silvers behind her – seems more relaxed this year after moving from the quad to a double scull with newcomer Victoria Meyer-Laker.

Lying second with 500 metres to go, the British duo pushed and were catching the Chinese leaders, who suffered in the rough water and ‘crabbed’. Houghton and Mayer-Laker went for gold went on for the gold.

“It was really fast and tricky conditions out there”, said Houghton.

“It was pretty testy for a new combination, but most of those out there are new, so we just went out and raced it”.

Triggs Hodge seldom seems to be phased by anything, but, after a distinctly poor showing by Britain’s eight in qualifying on Friday when they finished third behind France and Poland, there was some hard talking and thinking.

A better start in the final saw Britain snatch a narrow verdict over Poland in the last 100 metres. Silver medals came for Scott Durant and Matthew Tarrant, both from Oxford Brookes, in the GB coxless four.

Third until half way, they then took Romania and pushed Australia hard to the line.

The Chambers brothers, Richard and Peter, won silver in the lightweight doubles.

It was the first time that the brothers, from the Oxford Brookes stable and Olympic medallists in the lightweight four at the London Games, had been chosen for the senior team as a family unit.

They led until just before the finish when, in the rough water, Poland squeezed past them to take the gold. Kathryn Twyman from Walling-ford took a silver with Imogen Walsh, in the women’s lightweight doubles moving up from fifth in the latter part of the race.

She said: “We’ve been training all year in singles and were in singles for trials, so we’ve not had much time together. We’ve got plenty to find.”

Her Wallingford clubmates, Bria-nna Stubbs and Eleanor Piggott, finished two seconds off a medal in fourth place.