HEATHER STANNING and pairs partner Helen Glover produced a near-perfect display to add World Cup gold to their medal collection.
The Lossiemouth rower and partner Glover saw off New Zealand and Denmark to win the final, a 27th straight win that maintained a four-year unbeaten streak that has seen them claim Olympic, European and World golds.
New Zealand had been tipped to push the British pair all the way and had impressed throughout the qualifying rounds in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Glover and Stanning had other ideas, however, and led from the first stroke, moving gradually clear throughout the race. The New Zealand challenge faltered in the last few strokes, giving the British pair a clear-water victory.
Afterwards, Stanning said: "That was really pleasing. Helen just called the race really well and we rowed within ourselves. We knew we were going to be attacked but we did exactly what we wanted and that was brilliant."
Stanning's triumph added to another Scottish gold medal, won by Edinburgh's Callum McBrierty in the non-Olympic coxed pairs final on Saturday evening, ahead of Germany.
At the end of yesterday's programme, Victoria Meyer-Laker, from Premnay in Aberdeenshire, was in the women's eight that took bronze behind winners Canada and New Zealand.
Earlier, returning Olympic champion Katherine Grainger and her new double sculls partner Vicky Thornley won the B final to recover from the catastrophic mishap by Thornley at the start of Saturday's semi-final that put paid to their medal hopes. Inverness's Alan Sinclair was in the coxless four that finished third in the B final, ninth overall.
There were two Scottish silver medals in Saturday's non-Olympic finals to add to McBrierty's coxed pairs gold. In lightweight pairs, Kirriemuir's Sam Scrimgeour, along with his world championship silver medal pairs partner Jono Clegg, came second behind Italy.
Inverness's European champion Imogen Walsh also took silver behind New Zealand's Zoe McBride. Walsh is desperately trying to break back into the Olympic class lightweight double sculls crew and, after her race, she revealed: "I'm disappointed. Winning is the only thing for me, everybody says that, but for me, winning is the only thing I've ever got in my mind."
Her British lightweight double sculls rivals could only finish fourth in their event, so the door remains open for a promotion for Walsh.
Britain's overall medal count was three golds, three silvers and two bronzes, to finish third in the overall World Cup rankings, behind winners New Zealand and Germany.
Meanwhile, at London's Dockland, Glasgow Academy's Vicky Neilson and India Somerside, coached by Mary Massaro, rowed to a one-length win for Britain in the annual GB- France junior match.
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