2023 European Rowing Championships Review
W4x (Women’s quads)
For the women’s quads, a rather shifting affair with crew changes, reshuffles and reselections in the big teams, it was the Dutch and British who copped straight qualification to the final while Ukraine were marginally the quickest of those who had to go via the repechage. Fresh from altitude training the Dutch stuck the orange canvas of their custom-coloured boat in front, and then had to wait to see what the big guns of the quads were willing to fire at them.