New Zealand has another boat qualified for the Olympic Games thanks to a great row by Storm Uru and Peter Taylor today in Poznan.

And although the men's lightweight double scull breezed in with a dominant display in their A Final, the women's lightweight double scull and the women's eight failed to make the cut.

Uru and Taylor had been threatening to do well in Poland after a sensational performance in Lucerne and they went even better in Poland with a devastating row in the lightweight doubles. With three places at Beijing up for grabs in the final, they left nothing to chance and took a decisive early lead - two seconds at the first 500 metre mark. They maintained this through the middle 1,000 metres, then upped their speed for the final 500 metres, coming home a relatively comfortable two and a half seconds ahead of crews from Portugal and Canada, who also qualified for Beijing.

The double will have to wait to be officially confirmed as an entry by the New Zealand Olympic Committee, but the success in Poznan now means the rowing team will almost certainly field eight boats in Beijing in August. The lightweight double could prove very competitive.

The celebrations for the team were slightly diluted by the failure of the lightweight women's double scull of Candice Hammond and Louise Ayling and the women's eight to qualify. The double couldn't get beyond the repechage, and in the straight final of the eights, New Zealand finished fifth. This field was of an incredibly high standard and even the highly fancied Chinese, winners of an exhibition race a couple of days ago, failed to make the two boat cut having been rowed out by Canada and the Netherlands.

The boys celebrate and NZ qualifies another boat for Beijing