The team left Poznan in Poland with three golds, a silver and a bronze, ensuring that David Tanner picked up the trophy from FISA president Denis Oswald (pictured).

 

The double scullers Elise Laverick and Anna Bebington stormed to victory after months of injury and illness, and the lightweight double of Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter clocked up their third successive World Cup victory to earn another winners vest.

 

Hunter said: “It’s awesome, I’ve now got so many I can sell them on eBay.”  

 

Laverick said: “I was confident that if we led at halfway we would win."

 

The men's eight won gold as well, over a depleted entry which included the German boat which had six changes after being so comprehensively by the British three weeks ago.

 

But questions remain over the flagship men's boat, the coxless four, who finished second.

 

But they were weakened by the premature return from injury for bow man Tom James and stroke Andy Hodge.

 

The women's eight won bronze and the women's lightweight quad – a non-Olympic boat – won gold.