Congratulations!

The Belgian rowers in Gifu really made it happen! Tim finishes 4th in the A final, Stijn and Christophe 6th and the lightweight quad, Christophe, Wouter, François and Justin take the silver medal! Last medal in rowing at World Championships goes back to Tampere in 1995! And what a race.
Melissa Bray reports on the FISA website: "Italy has dominated this event for the last three years and Filippo Mannucci, Luca Moncada and Daniele Gilardoni return as three-time defending champions, joined by Gardino Pellolio in bow. Italy took the lead over Austria and moved out to a boat length advantage by the 1,000 metre mark with Canada taking second. Italy continued to stay in front and it appeared that only a disaster would deny them of the gold. That disaster looked like it was coming in the form of Belgium. Sitting for most of the race in fourth the Belgians suddenly came alive and in the last 500 metres had swallowed up Canada and were challenging the Italians. Rating 40, Belgium ran out of race. Rating 36, Italy had held them off. Mannucci, Moncada and Gilardoni make it four consecutive World Champion titles. Pellolio makes it one. Belgium wins silver and Canada takes bronze."
Congratulations!