Great Britain's first ever female rowing Olympic gold medal.

Both athletes also won the W2- final at WRC Amsterdam 2014 and WRC Aiguebelette 2015 and crowned their rowing career by winning the W2- gold medal at OG Rio de Janeiro 2016.

This crew dominated the M2+ event between 1981

and 1991 by winning the gold medal at two Olympic

Games and seven World Rowing Championships:

WRC Munich 1981, WRC Lucerne 1982, Olympic

Games Los Angeles 1984, WRC Hazewinkel 1985,

WRC Copenhagen 1987, Olympic Games Seoul 1988,

WRC Bled 1989, WRC Tasmania 1990 and WRC Vienna

1991. In the M2+ final of the Olympic Games Barcelona

1992 the Abbagnale brothers lost against the Searle 

brothers of Great Britain in an epic battle and won the

silver medal. 

Giuseppe Abbagnale was elected president of the Italian

Rowing Federation in 2012.

W4X gold medal winner crew GER (upper right)

LM4- gold medal winner crew SUI (lower right)

W1X gold medal winner Kim Brennan (AUS)

M2X final A at OG Rio de Janeiro

1. CRO  6:50,28

2. LTU   6:51,39

3. NOR  6: 53,25

M1X final A result at OG Rio de Janeiro

1. NZL  6:41,34

2. CRO  6:41,34

3. CZE  6:44,10

The first two single scullers Drysdale (NZL)

and Martin (CRO) rowed a new Olympic

record time - less than two centimeters

seperated their bow balls on the finish line.

It was the closest result ever in an Olympic

M1X final thus matching the W1X final at

the Sydney Olympic Games 2000 when

BLR beat BUL by a similar tiny margin.