South Africa Takes Gold in Coxless Fours Thriller

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South Africa's rowers pipped Britain and defending champion Denmark to gold in a thrilling lightweight coxless fours race on Thursday.

South Africa's rowers pipped Britain and defending champion Denmark to gold in a thrilling lightweight coxless fours race on Thursday.

South Africa's James Thompson, Matthew Brittain, John Smith and Sizwe Ndlovu, world silver medalists, completed the 2km course in six minutes, 2.84 seconds.

The British team of Peter Chambers, Rob Williams, Richard Chambers and Chris Bartley put in a strong finish but wavered at the last to claim the silver in 6:03.09.

Denmark, going for its fourth Olympic title, had to settle for bronze after leading for most of the race, in 6:03.09, its quartet of Kasper Winther, Morten Jorgensen, Jacob Barsoe and Eskild Ebbesen, suffering fatigue in the final strokes.

 

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