The return of Oxford University president Constantine Louloudis helped Great Britain’s eight to victory in the Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta.
The crew, which also included Oxford Blues Peter Reed and Paul Bennett, triumphed in easy fashion from the German national eight.
The women’s GB eight, who beat the Oxford University crew in the semi-finals of the Remenham Cup, had on board Headington’s Katie Greaves, Oxford Brookes’ Olivia Carnegie Brown and Oxford Blue Zoe de Toledo.
However, they lost in the final to the Canadian national eight.
Frances Houghton, from Wheatley, was in the GB quad scull which took the Princess Grace Challenge Cup.
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