Matthew Pinsent has revealed he was forced to take drastic action to secure a dramatic World Cup win with fellow Olympic champion James Cracknell.

In choppy conditions in Vienna on Sunday, Pinsent had to bale water out of the boat with a drinks bottle during their coxless pairs.

The problem did not prevent the Britons from roaring home more than five seconds clear of Yugoslavia.

Pinsent said: "We picked up enough water in the first three or four strokes to make the baling at the start pretty pointless.

"But at least we started with a dry boat. It was choppy, but manageable."

Four golds

The victory capped a series of fine British performances, which included four gold medals.

Frances Houghton and Debbie Flood took the women's double scull, Cath Bishop and Katherine Grainger triumphed in the women's coxless pair, while the Olympic champion men's eight also took the title.

Britain won the Vienna Regatta title by an emphatic margin with a total of 57 points, 32 clear of Belarus, while they now stand 20 points ahead of Germany in the overall standings with just the final regatta in Munich to come later this month.

RESULTS:

MEN:

Coxless pair: 1 Great Britain (J Cracknell, M Pinsent) 7:36.53, 2 Yugoslavia (D Visacki, N Stojic) 7:41.99, 3 Argentina (D Ordas, W Balunek) 7:46.46, 4 Czech Republic (A Michalak, P Imre) 7:50.33, 5 Lithuania (E Petkus, G Zadeika 7:52.05, 6 Ukraine 4 (A Kravchenko, Y Zakharov) 8:06.63
World Cup standings: 1. Britain 24, 2. Croatia 9, 3. Canada 6

Double scull: 1 Hungary (A Haller, T Peto) 7:30.92, 2 Switzerland (A Vonarburg, C Stofer) 7:32.42, 3 Cuba (Y Martinez, Y Hernandez), 7:33.66, 4 Great Britain (P Gardner, I Lawson) 7:35.15, 5 Poland (M Julinski, A Wojciechowski) 7:39.50, 6 Austria (P Krause, C Uhl) 7:42.90
World Cup standings: 1 Switzerland 16, 2 Cuba 10, 3 Belgium 8, Hungary 8

Eights: 1 Great Britain (J West, J Von Maltzahn, S Dennis, P Simmons, L Grubor, L Attrill, T Stallard, S Trapmore, R Douglas) 6:21.51, 2 Poland 6:27.51, 3 China 6:30.51, 4 Chile 7:02.06
World Cup standings: 1 Britain 12, 2 United States, 8, Romania, 8

Lightweight double scull: 1 Switzerland (N Latt, M Gier) 7:32.32, 2 Great Britain (T Male, T Middleton) 7:35.64, 3 Czech Republic (P Klicpera, V Malecek) 7:35.65, 4 Denmark (M Rasmussen, R Quist) 7:35.67, 5 Argentina (S Massa, U Lienhard) 7:43.85, 6 Austria (S Sageder, U Daxbock) 7:47.90
World Cup standings: 1 Switzerland 20, 2 Spain, Germany 8

Vienna Overall Regatta Final Standings: 1 Great Britain 57, 2 Belarus 25, 3 Denmark 24

Overall World Cup standings: (after three of four events) 1 Great Britain 123, 2 Germany 103, 3 United States 73

WOMEN:

Single scull: 1 E Karsten (Blr) 9min 45.64secs, 2 K Rutschow-Stomporowski (Ger) 9:55.00, 3 M Gonzalez (Cub) 10:01.00, G Batten (Gbr) 10.19.01, 5 V Berazniova (Blr) 10.27.65, 6 I Ven (Bel) 10.34.70
World Cup standings: (after three of four events) 1 Belarus 16, 2 Russia 14, 3 Germany 12

Coxless pair: 1 Great Britain (C Bishop, K Grainger) 8min 26.44secs, 2 Belarus 1 (Y Bichyk, O Tratsevskaya) 8:30.95, 3 Belarus 2 (M Brel M Varona) 8:36.83, 4 Romania (G Damian, V Susanu) 8:40.94, 5 Ukraine (N Proskura, Y Andryeyeva) 8:49.24, 6 China (Yuenan, Yanhua Gao) 8:58.70
World Cup standings: 1 Britain 13: 2 Romania 12, Belarus, 12

Double scull: 1 Great Britain (F Houghton, D Flood) 8:34.43, 2 Lithuania ( K Paplavskaja, B Sakcikiene) 8:40.05, 3 Denmark (S Lauritzen, C Rindom) 8:46.68, 4 Poland (H Motylewska, M Grabowska) 8:54.40, 5 Hungary (K Kulifai, G Barz) 9:01.34
World Cup standings: 1 Germany 16, 2 Denmark 15, 3 Britain 14

Quadruple scull: 1 Ukraine (V Vychrist, Y Kramarenko, T Kolesnikova, O Senkiv) 7:38.73, 2 Great Britain (E Laverick, L Eyre, R Romero, A Mowbray) 7:39.02, 3 Belarus 2 (E Mamonova, O Tagaeva, N Snapkouskaya, M Kouzmar) 7:44.73, 4 China (Guangxiz Sun, Liqui Zhou, Lin Liu, Chunhua Li) 7:50.37, 5 Denmark (A Haastrup Jespersen, M Vraa, C Indom, M Oelgaard Nielsen) 7:53.39, 6 Poland (A Mocolaj, K Mackiewicz, M Paszkiewicz, I Tybinkowska) 8:25.73
World Cup standings: 1 Germany 16, 2 Britain 12, 3 United States 9

Lightweight double scull: 1 Romania (M Stan, A Scurtu) 8:51.54, 2 Cuba (D Tasset, M Mesa) 8:54.22, 3 Great Britain (J Hall, H Casey) 8:55.72, 4 Austria 1 (M Miessgang, B Pirker) 9:00.38, 5 United States (C Humblet, M Obidinski) 9:05.00, 6 Hungary (A Alliquander, E Stift) 9:09.53
World Cup standings: 1 Romania 19, 2 United States 12, 3 Germany 8