Rowing: NZ continue strong showing in Europe

The New Zealand Rowing team has repeated their golden performance from last week's World Cup regatta in Germany with another string of top results in Holland.

At the Beker Regatta in Amsterdam over the weekend, the men's pair of George Bridegwater and Nathan Twaddle repeated their World Cup success with a comfortable victory, while Juliette Haigh and Nicky Coles -- coxless pair champions in Munich -- also won easily.

Olympic double sculls champions Georgina and Caroline Evers-Swindell continued their battle in the single sculls with Georgina overhauling her twin in the last 500m to pinch third place repeating the result from Germany.

Following a change in the seating order, the men's four were more competitive than in Munich finishing a close third behind crews from Holland and Denmark.

Mahe Drysdale completed a successful day for New Zealand in the men's single scull event.

Drysdale was off the pace early, but rallied late to produce this year's fastest final 500m time to finish second.

The team now head back to Munich next week for 10 days of training before moving onto Lucerne, Switzerland for the third World Cup regatta.

- NZPA