Eric Murray and Hamish Bond hit 16 straight wins with their triumph at the world championship in Chungju, South Korea in August. Photo / Getty Images
For all New Zealand's notable achievements at the world's premier rowing venues, one combination stands supreme.
To absolutely no surprise, Eric Murray and Hamish Bond maintained their iron grip on the coxless pair event, as they have since the start of the four-year Olympic cycle in 2009.
The duo went
to the Beijing Olympics in 2008 as part of the defending world champion coxless four, but were stunned to miss out on a place in the final.
They have made up for that disappointment in spades since being put in the double seater at the start of the 2009 campaign. They haven't lost a race in those five years.
Victories in the second and third World Cups at Eton Dorney and Lucerne this year, rounded out by the world title in Chungju, Korea in August, took the pair to 16 straight wins - one Olympic gold in London last year, four world championship crowns and 11 World Cup titles.
