It was not just individuals who stood out, with GB’s golden Sunday including mixed double sculls, mixed coxed four, mixed team sprint and mixed freestyle triumphs.

Great Britain’s PR3 mixed coxed four crew continued the golden run.

His record may have been surpassed by a boy, thought to be seven or eight, who coxed a Dutch boat in Paris in 1900, but his identity remains unknown.

Cambridge, who won both male and female races, was also warned against throwing the cox into the water as is tradition.

It's a year that has pushed coxswain Kennedy - a Paralympic champion in the mixed coxed four - harder than any race.