The Canadian women's eight team secured a silver medal on Sunday at the World Rowing Cup III in Lucerne, Switzerland, finishing just under one second back of gold-medallist Great Britain.
The final was a four boat race, contested between 2020 Olympic gold medallist Canada, the 2022 world championships gold medallist Romanians, and the World Rowing Cup II champion and runner-up Australia and Great Britain respectively, who topped the podium in the Varese, Italy, event in June.
The Australians held a commanding lead throughout the first 1,000 metres, with Great Britain drawing level with the Canadians and Romanians for second-place after a poor start.
As Romania fell off shortly afterwards, the Canadian and British squads continued to push to close the gap to within a half-second back of Australia at the 1,500m mark, and both teams overtook the reigning champions with 300m left to go.