Great Britain claimed two Olympic rowing gold medals within the space of 30 minutes to go fourth in the medal table on Day Seven of Rio 2016.
Heather Stanning and Helen Glover retained their Olympic title from London 2012 in the women’s pair final.
A sixth gold followed when George Nash, Alex Gregory, Constantine Louloudis and Mohamed Sbihi won the men’s four.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson leads the heptathlon after two events – defending champion Jess Ennis-Hill is third.
Johnson-Thompson cleared 1.98m – a new British high jump record – to top the leaderboard with five events remaining.
She is 22 points ahead of fellow Briton Ennis-Hill, who had won the first event of the two-day competition, the 100m hurdles.
Jo Pavey, 42, finished 15th in the women’s 10,000m as Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana smashed the world record by 14 seconds.
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