Illustrated cover ESP 1992 OG Barcelona M2 gold medal winners Jonny Greg Searle cox Garry Herbert GBR

British brothers beat Italian brothers in a fantastic final sprint

The Abbagnale brothers with their coxwain Di Capua (ITA), M2+

Olympic champions 1984 + 1988 and seven times WRC gold medal

winners, looked like the certain victors in the M2+ final a couple of

hundred meters from the finish line when the Searle brothers raised

their stroke rate up to 44 and managed to overtake the favourites

within the last 15 strokes.

 

 

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