Jamie Copus came back from injury to star in a successful Ghent International Regatta for Oxford Brookes, writes John Wiggins.

The 22-year-old from Abingdon, sidelined for two months, while recovering from a training injury, won the lightweight single sculls.

Having proved his fitness, he will race again next week – but in GB colours and in a double scull at the Essen Regatta.

At Ghent, silver medals for both the Brookes men’s and women’s eights on Saturday were surpassed on the Sunday when both stepped up to take gold.

The same occurred for the women’s coxless four, though the men’s coxless boat of Richard Hawkins, Karl Hudspith, Tim Grant and Sybren Hoogland took gold on both days.

Even further afield and returning to Great Britain colours were Abingdon’s Tom Digby and cox Hugo Marsh, of St Edward’s School, competing at the Munich Junior International Regatta.

They were together in the silver medal-winning coxed four at the 2014 World Junior Championships and renewed the combination racing in the eight on Sunday when, with Digby at stroke, they came home with a bronze medal Abingdon RC and Cheney Falcons also won bronze medals at Eton’s Dorney Lake at the annual Ball Cup (South) for smaller boat clubs.

The medals came from Abingdon’s J15 Josh Ascroft, racing in the single scull for the first time, and the Cheney Falcons RC – a group from Cheney School based at Oxford’s Falcon Rowing Club – in the J13 coxed quad.

Their crew was Grace Probitts, Brogan Exley, Bende Taborosi, Sebastian Siswick, and Amelie Grant-Forster.

Radley College and Abingdon School, reached 13 finals at the Bedford Regatta, but converted only three of them into trophies.

Radley won the J15 eights as well as the J18 coxed fours and Abingdon the men’s Novice eights.

In preparation for defence of the Oxford University Summer Eights headship, Oriel College were dominant in the College Eights event though losing finalists in the Elite eights.

Magdalen College women’s first eight will start fourth on the river in the University bumps in two weeks and had a confidence boost by winning their College Eights event.