Richard Chambers believes GB’s lightweight men’s four have shown their Olympic gold medal credentials.

Chambers and his brother Peter, past and present Oxford Brookes University students respectively, clinched a pulsating semi-final at Eton Dorney on Tuesday, alongside Chris Bartley and Rob Williams.

Having won their heat on Saturday, they impressed again and will now go for gold on Wednesday.

After battling with Switzerland in the first half, Britain came on strong to win by more than a second in 5mins 59.68secs.

“We have beaten every boat in that final at some point over the last three years,” said Richard Chambers, who is a Leander Club member.

“We are in a really good position. I don’t think we could have done much more up to this point.

“We just have to go out there and deliver our race the way we row best. If we do that, we can deliver a gold medal.”

Chambers’s crew came into the Games on the back of victory in the Munich World Cup regatta and have gone from strength to strength on home water.

He will have an elder statesman role to play tomorrow as this is his second Olympics, but Richard Chambers admitted the nerves would still be jangling.

“Everybody will be bricking themselves on Thursday morning,” he said.

Having won both their London 2012 races with strong finishes, the lightweight four seem to be getting things right.

“It is an Olympic final, but we don’t need to change any-thing,”said Richard Chambers.

“What we are doing is working for us. We just have to go out there and win that gold medal.”

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