Monday 03 / February / 2025
Tokyo: The Chinese rowers safely bagged the women's quadruple sculls gold with a world best time of six minutes and 05.13 seconds here on Wednesday.
Chen Yunxia, Zhang Ling, Lyu Yang and Cui Xiaotong established a convincing lead before the final 500m and refreshed its Olympic best time set on home soil at the 2008 games.
Poland won the silver in 6:11.36 and Australia took a bronze in 6:12.08
Netherlands set a world best time
The Netherlands set a world best time of five minutes and 32.03 seconds to claim the men's quadruple sculls gold on Wednesday.
Dutch rowers Lucas Theodoor Dirk Uittenbogaard, Abe Wiersma, Tone Wieten and Koen Metsemakers improved the previous WB, created by Ukraine in 2014, by 0.23 seconds.
The 1,000m leader, Britain took the silver in 5:33.75, edging third-placed Australia by 0.22 seconds.
France beat the Netherlands
France edged the Netherlands by 0.2 seconds to win the men's double sculls gold in an Olympic best time of six minutes and 0.33 seconds here on Wednesday.
The French and Dutch rowers were going head-to-head in the final sprint, and Hugo Boucheron and Matthieu Androdias eventually bested for the gold. Melvin Twellaar and Stef Broenink won the silver in 6:00.53.
China's Liu Zhiyu and Zhang Liang took the bronze in 6:03.63. This is the historic first Olympic medal for the Chinese men's rowing.
