They crossed the line first today to win the men's lightweight four after moving clear of the rest of the field by halfway.

Keeping up an impressive stroke rate, the crew of Alberto Di Seyssel, Riccardo Italiano, Sebastiano Galoforo and Giovanni Ficarra maintained their advantage to hold clear and win in 6min 06.540sec

"We raced how we expected," Galoforo said.

"We had a good start as usual, a great middle and we managed to get away from the others by pushing toward the end of the race."

United States finished strongly to overhaul fast-starting Indonesia and finish second in 6:07.89

Indonesia settled for the bronze medal in 6:09.41.

The Italians underlined their domination of the male lightweight divisions by claiming a second win in the double sculls event.

Antonio Vicino and Gabriel Soares, who set an under-23 world best time earlier this week, dominated to cross the line first in 6:19.570.

Christian Hagemann and Alexander Modest of Denmark crossed second in 6:20.340 and Rodrigo Conde Romero and Jordi Rodriguez claimed a bronze for Spain 0.14 seconds further back.

Other countries did also enjoy plenty of success on the Maritsa River.

Trevor Jones enjoyed a win for Canada in the men's single sculls, holding off South African rival Kyle Schoonbee by 2.74 seconds to finish in 6:49.350.

The bronze went to last year's silver medallist Natan Wegrzycki-Szymczyk of Poland in 6:55.030.

Canada also tasted victory in the women's eights after winning a North American battle with a United States team, who suffered a mid-race blow after number two Claire Collins came off her seat.

The Canadian clocked 6:09.890 to win by 6.55 seconds over the recovering Americans.

Russia took the bronze medal in 6:17.090.

Lovisa Claesson of Sweden won the women's single sculls after her time of 7:36.99 saw her finish 3.15 seconds in front of Switzerland's Pascale Walker.

Emily Kallfelz of the US took the final place on the podium in 7:42.680.