Britain's rowers stole a march on the road to Paris 2024 at the World Championships in Račice, Czech Republic.
Olympic class crews romped to six medals in under three hours, a gold-dusted quantum leap for a squad studded with returners and pretenders.
There was gold for both the men's and women's fours and a dominant row to victory from the outstanding lightweight women's double.
Imogen Grant and Emily Craig were more than three seconds clear of the field having missed out on an Olympic medal in Tokyo by one-hundredth.
“The photo finish from Tokyo is printed off and hanging on my living room wall,” said Craig.
“Imogen’s quote after that race summed it up nicely - ‘you win or you learn’. We went away and we learned.
“I wanted to retire after Tokyo and said if I came back it would have to be completely different. I’m a different woman to who I was a year ago."
All three victorious crews are standouts and added global gold to European titles they won in Munich back in August.
None have laid a glove on the women's four this season, with Olympians Rebecca Shorten and Rowan McKellar guiding Heidi Long and Samantha Redgrave to gold.
McKellar said: “It was tough for Rebecca and I to come back after the Olympics.
“We came into the squad and all the new girls that came in created a really good atmosphere and good environment to train in.
“We didn’t want to waste this year, we’ve come out and we’ve hit it hard. We’ve stepped on with training and everyone has stepped on a huge amount this year. It’s showing now.”
The men's four, debutants all, should have been rocked off course when regular crew member Matt Aldridge withdrew due to illness.
But Samuel Nunn, Will Stewart, Freddie Davidson and David Ambler followed the women's script in holding off Australia and Netherlands for victory.
Ambler deputised for Aldridge at a moment's notice while Nunn overcame serious hip surgery to take a maiden global gold.
Stewart said: “We're all new into the team this year. There's no pressure on our shoulders.
“We're here really just to sort of get out and do what we can do. Regardless of what's come before us, we’re going to make a name for ourselves.”
The men's quad rowed through Italy to hold their Olympic placing of silver after a topsy-turvy silver.
Olympians Jack Beaumont and Angus Groom have retired but Harry Leask and Tom Barras were there to show George Bourne and Matt Haywood the way.
“What an exciting project this is to be a part of," said Leask. “We’ve been to some dark places but we’ve managed to turn it around and couldn’t have ended the season much better.”
There was a brilliant bronze for the women's quad comprised of Jess Leyden, Lola Anderson, Georgina Brayshaw and Olympian Lucy Glover.
And Tom George and Ollie Wynne-Griffith were the ones to open the floodgates with their bronze in the men's pair.
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