2023 European Rowing Championships Review
M8+ (Men’s eights)
World Rowing split the eights this time, the men having their final on the Saturday, the women wrapping up the event on Sunday. Whether this was conveniently encouraged to help Britain out of a fix wasn’t entirely obvious, but it certainly worked when GB men’s cox Harry Brightmore fell ill before Saturday, leaving Henry Fieldman, now coxing the women’s eight, to do double steering duty and a whole new set of outings. Thankfully both were straight finals.