Helen Glover and Heather Stanning won their first World Rowing Championship title together with a dominant victory in Amsterdam on Saturday.
The Olympic women's pair champions – who learned to row in Bath - took an early lead which grew by the strike and finished in a global best time of 6mins 50.61secs.
They finished ahead of silver medallists the United Stated and third-placed New Zealand.
The success was Glover's second in successive years after she partnered Polly Swann to glory in 2013, when Stanning was on Army duty.
"This feels different to last year," said the Minerva Bath patron. "Because of the history that Heather and I have, this win was more expected. Last year, with Polly [Swann], it was all very new.
"When Heather turned round to look at me, I was saying 'thanks'. It is something I am really proud of."
Glover and Stanning set off at a cracking pace and had three-quarters of a length lead on the remainder of the field 300m into the race.
The Romanians were a narrow second, ahead of the Americans as the race went through the 500m mark. By halfway the GB pair had a decent clear water advantage on the rest. Romania were just under three seconds behind with the Americans three tenths behind them.
Just before 1,500m mark, the USA surged ahead of Romania and then set out to chase the GB crew, bringing the New Zealanders with them. As the British supporters became more vocal the Americans made another push, countered by the British who went on to deliver Stanning's first world title.
"I have not had the most consistent of seasons nor been the most consistent training partner," said University of Bath graduate Stanning.
"I am really relieved that Helen kept believing in me. The last few weeks have been really brilliant. I really wanted to make the medal mine today and not be the weak link after Helen and Polly [Swann] won the title last year".
There was disappointment for ex-Minerva Bath member Vicky Thornley in the open women's single semi-finals on Friday after a titanic struggle to hold on to third place against the more experienced Russian Julia Levina.
