GREAT Britain collected five medals including a golden hat-trick on finals day at the World Rowing Cup event in Lucerne.

The men’s four, women’s pair and women’s double scull all served notice of their potential for Olympic success with victories.

The lightweight men’s four collected bronze and the men’s eight wrapped up the day with a silver medal.

The men’s four contained Oxford Blues Peter Reed and Andrew Triggs-Hodge, the latter who also lives in the city, as well as Alex Gregory and Tom James, both of whom live in Henley.

The quartet came from half a length behind Australia to take the lead in the final 20 strokes.

Reed said afterwards: “We had a feeling before the race that they would try to do something special. That’s the way they raced in Bled last year and in the Olympic final as well.

“The Australian boat is always very classy, but moving past them in the last 500 (metres) is something we hadn’t seen from our crew yet and that can be massively improved.”

The lightweight men’s four of Wallingford’s Paul Mattick, ex-Oxford Brookes star Richard Chambers, Chris Bartley, who lives in Henley and Rob Williams were fancied to add to the gold rush and led in the early stages, but were overhauled by China and South Africa and had to settle for bronze.

Chambers said afterwards: “The Chinese and South Africans have beaten us now so it gives us something to fight for and we’re in a good place.”

Mark Hunter and Zac Purchase, who lives in Wallingford, finished a disappointing sixth in the lightweight men’s double.