AUSTRALIA'S 2011 world championship lightweight men's four gold medallists were part of the winning senior men's eight crew as Rowing Tasmania's state pennant 5 wrapped up in perfect conditions at Lake Barrington yesterday.
World champions Anthony Edwards, of New Norfolk, Sam Beltz, of Huon, and West Australian crewmates Todd Skipworth and Ben Cureton, teamed with fellow lightweight men's four rowers in Tamar's Ali Foot and Blair Tunevitsch, Huon's Tom Gibson and New South Wales Rod Chisholm to take out the men's eight from Hutchins and a Huon-Tasmanian University composite crew.
The Australian heavyweight quad crew of James McCrae, Dan Noonan, Carsten Forsteling and Chris Morgan also rowed in the race as a quad.
The senior men's single scull was taken out by Queensland's Jarred Bidwell who defeated fellow Australian heavyweight rower Nicholas Hudson, of Sydney University, with Buckingham's Sam Volker third.
Huon's Eleni Kaliminos continued her good form to win the under-23 and senior single scull.
Kaliminos beat home Huon's Georgia Nesbitt and Tamar's Stephanie Williams in the senior single.
Nesbitt also finished second in the under-23 single scull with Tamar's Ciona Wilson third.
Perth College rower, Catherine Woodall, of Western Australia, took out the women's under-17 single scull from Launceston Church Grammar's Georgie Scott in a closely-contested race.
In the men's under-19 single scull, Hutchins rowers Sam Heron and Richard Giblin, finished first and second with St Patrick's College Mitchell Digney.
The men's under-23 double scull, Huon's Wilson Mure and Max Rowan had a narrow win from Tamar's Oli Lindsay and Sam Hall.
In adaptive rowing, North Esk's Malcolm Hall had a good win from Glenorchy's James Amos and Callum Loh.