Silver medal for Yugoslav crew

Lucerne, SWITZERLAND, August 25 - Yugoslav men's coxless pair: Djordje Visacki and Nikola Stojic, won second place at the FISA World Rowing Championships in Lucerne.

British crew, Pinsent and Cracknell, had their second near escape from a sprint in the day, winning gold by just 0.02 seconds over Djordje Visacki and Nikola Stojic of Yugoslavia. Pinsent and Cracknell had had to work their way into first place after spending the first 1500 metres of the race battling with Romania for the third and fourth spot.

They edged ahead just past the 1500 metre mark but the leaders to that point, Visacki and Stojic, were not prepared to give up the top spot so easily. They came back in the final few hundred metres to catch the British crew and the two crossed the line in a photo finish, only the surge of the bowball giving Pinsent and Cracknell the race.

Meanwhile, South Africa's Ramon Di Clemente and Donovan Cech rowed through Daniel Mastacan and Florin Corbeanu of Romania to take bronze three-quarters of a length behind.