Ford rounds off Invincible campaign with rowing World Championship gold

Tom Ford helped fire Great Britain to a landmark gold medal at the World Rowing Championships. The Holmes Chapel rower rounded off a remarkable unbeaten season with victory in the men's eight in Racice, Czech Republic. Ad Ford joined forces with Rory Gibbs, Morgan Bolding, David Bewicke-Copley, Sholto Carnegie, Charles Elwes, Thomas Digby, James Rudkin and cox Harry Brightmore to win Britain's first gold in the top men's boat class since 2015.

RowingPritchard PB propels Britain to top of the pile at World Rowing Championships44 MINUTES AGO He said: «It's been a great year. »We've had new guys come into the team and we've had a lot of guys come back from the Olympics with things they wanted to achieve when they got back. «It's been a really strong blend of enthusiasm with the young guys and the leadership and the experience of the young guys.

»This eight is a great example of what happens when we get those two things in synchronicity. It's been a tough season but it’s been awesome." The crew have won all four races they entered this season, adding the world title to European gold and top step in two prestigious World Cup events. They won Tuesday's heat comfortably from Romania and got out of the blocks for one of their strongest starts of the season in the final.

They opened up an early canvas lead on the Netherlands but they came charging back in the back half of the race, sprinting hard for the line and cutting the British lead. But Brightmore guided his men to victory by a margin of 1.11 seconds in a time of 5:24.41. The cox said: «I was actually just really, really quiet for the first minute.