Kingswear rower Bill Lucas has won a bronze medal at the World Rowing Cup at Eton Dorney.

Competing in a new men's double sculls pairing, put together since the last World Cup in Sydney, Kingswear's Lucas lined up for Great Britain alongside Matt Langridge.

Slovenia and New Zealand had the best starts in the men's double sculls with the British pair in fifth place after 250m.

World Cup leaders New Zealand then pushed on to gain half a length on Germany, while Britain started to fight for fourth place with Azerbajan.

Meanwhile, after a good start, Slovenia slipped back through the pack and GB took advantage.

The British crew upped their stroke rate with 250m to go and snatched the final podium place from Azerbaijan. New Zealand were first, with Germany second. Despite picking up a medal, Lucas expressed a degree of disappointment following the race. 'I think we came here looking to win. I think we have shown real speed but probably in the really bouncy stuff we lacked a bit of cohesion,' he said. 'Both of the other crews have raced a long time and for us this is very much our first season together so when you are new to a boat those are not the conditions in which you want to be racing. But in patches I think we showed good speed and I'm happy with that.'