Victoria is celebrating a golden day of rowing at the interstate regatta, highlighted by ending NSW's seven-year hold on the prestigious Kings Cup for men's eights.
Victoria won four of Sunday's eight interstate races - the men's eight, Queens Cup for women's eights, women's single scull (Kim Crow) and women's youth eight - at Sydney International Regatta Centre.
The four gold medals plus three more podium places helped Victoria to top the points table and claim the Rowing Australia Cup.
The men's eight featuring Olympic medallists David Crawshay, Will Lockwood, Karsten Fosterling and Josh Dunkley-Smith won in an impressive 5:32:12, to collect the Kings Cup for the first time since 2006, winning by 2.8s from NSW with South Australia third.
"This year there was an aura and belief in the crew that we could win the Kings Cup," said London 2012 silver medallist Lockwood.
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"I can't tell you how good it feels to win this. I'd never won a Kings Cup and it's up there as one of the best rowing moments of my career."
The Victorian women's eight won the Queens Cup for an 11th consecutive year, dominating to lead home Queensland (second) and South Australia (third).
The crew featured Australian national team members including stroke Charlotte Sutherland and her twin sister Sophie, as well as Crow, Lucy Stephan, Jennifer Cleary, Katrina Bateman and Sarah Banting.
Queenslanders Darryn Purcell, Nick Silcox, Tim McDonnell and Jack Price made it three wins in a row for their state in the lightweight men's four.
In the schoolboys eight final, hot favourites of St Josephs Sydney and Scotch College Melbourne were blown out of the water by Brisbane's Nudgee College, who claimed gold with St Josephs second and Melbourne Grammar third.
Geelong Grammar won the schoolgirls eight final from Loreto-Toorak and Methodist Ladies College.
