Imogen Grant eyes World Championship gold in career best form

Cambridge rower Imogen Grant believes she is in the form of her life ahead of her bid for World Championship gold on Saturday. The 26-year-old reached the lightweight double sculls showpiece alongside teammate Emily Craig with a dominant semi-final win in Racice. Ad The pair are strong medal contenders on Saturday and among the favourites for gold, as they bid to add the world title to the European crown they won six weeks ago and banish painful memories of a year ago, when they missed out an Olympic medal by just 0.01s.

RowingBewicke-Copley hoping to make country proud at Rowing World ChampionshipsYESTERDAY AT 17:44 Now on the hunt for a world title, Grant said: "[The semi-final] felt really good. The season's been really long and I think we've both been here in Racice trying to get ready to race and that semi-final it really feels like we've arrived. «And it puts us in a really good position for the final on Saturday.

I think we're just taking each regatta as it comes. It feels like a very long time since Europeans. »I know it's not relying too heavily on what was a really great result but also having a lot of confidence in the fact that before Europeans we had four weeks in the boat, and now we've had six to eight weeks.

«We've done a lot of miles and have been building on that, taking each race as it comes and having a lot of confidence in a lot of years separately and together in what we've been building. »They've not been easy years and it will be really nice to come out with a result that we definitely deserve." In their semi-final, Grant and Craig put in a strong performance to claim first in 6:58.67, a second and a half ahead of second placed Ireland. The pairing were the fastest qualifiers overall, with the USA