Rowing: Praise for medal-winning rowers

Plaudits are flooding in for New Zealand's top rowers, after claiming four medals at the World Cup regatta in Munich.

That includes two gold - one to men's pair Nathan Twaddle and George Bridgewater, with the other to women's pair Juliette Haigh and Nicky Coles.

Team coach Dick Tonks has reserved special praise for Mahe Drysdale's silver medal in his first international singles sculls event.

He says Drysdale put in a huge burst 500 metres from the finish.

Tonks says his Czech challenger then slackened on the oars allowing Drysdale to finish second behind former world champ Marcel Hacker.

Georgina Evers-Swindell has taken bronze in the women's single scull with her sister Caroline fourth.

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