British brothers beat Italian brothers in a fantastic final sprint

The Abbagnale brothers with their coxwain Di Capua (ITA), M2+

Olympic champions 1984 + 1988 and seven times WRC gold medal

winners, looked like the certain victors in the M2+ final a couple of

hundred meters from the finish line when the Searle brothers raised

their stroke rate up to 44 and managed to overtake the favourites

within the last 15 strokes.