Oxford oarsmen Peter Chambers and Constantine Louloudis struck gold at the World Under 23 Championships in Amsterdam – with world best times.

Chambers, from Oxford Brookes, teamed up in a lightweight pair with Kieren Emery, from Leander, to storm home from New Zealand’s Curtis Rapley and Armin Svoboda in a new world mark of 6min 26.90secs on the Bosbaan.

Oxford University’s Constantine Louloudis and Cam-bridge’s George Nash also struck gold, taking the heavyweight honours in another world record time of 6.20.43 ahead of South Africa.

Chambers and Emery’s success saw them added to Great Britain’s senior World Cham-pionships team in Bled, Slovenia from August 28-September 4 to try and qualify for London 2012 as the event doubles as the Olympic qualifying regatta.

“I’m really pleased and proud with our gold medal,” said Chambers. “We covered New Zealand really well. “We knew they would be coming and waited to break them. We pushed off from 1,250m.”

Louloudis added: “It just felt great. I’m really pleased with the race.”

Four local rowers were in the British men’s eight, which won bronze behind the USA and the Czechs.

The British were fourth at 1,500m, but stroke George Rossiter and cox Oxford’s Max Gander, both products of Abingdon School, with Oliver Staite and Matthew Tarrant, from Oxford Brookes, behind them, squeezed past the Germans by the line.

Lottie Howard-Merrill, a geography student from Oxford, came fifth in the women’s eight.

  • City of Oxford’s Cloudy Carnegie has been selected for Great Britain’s Coupe de la Jeunesse squad of upcoming juniors to race in the women’s pair and eight in Linz, Austria this weekend.

Abingdon School BC’s William Davey and Neil McKenzie are in the men’s coxed four and the men’s eight.