ROWING: A change in personnel hasn't stopped Australia's men's four scoring a second successive rowing World Cup victory at the meet at England's Eton Dorney. 

A new-look Oarsome Foursome defeated Great Britain and Romania in Sunday's final to earn back-to-back wins for Australia following their triumph at the Sydney world cup meet in March.

London Olympic silver medallists William Lockwood and Joshua Dunkley Smith were joined in the team by rising NSW pair Spencer Turrin and Alexander Lloyd.

It came after selectors last month dropped veteran James Chapman from the crew, while fellow Olympian Josh Booth stood down to focus on his medical studies.

Australia won in five minutes and 56.40 second from Great Britain (5:57.74) and Romania (5:59.88).

Australia's new-look women's quad crew, containing the reigning under-23 world champions, missed out on their second straight World Cup gold medal as they finished third in Sunday's final.

Germany won in 6:21.00 from Poland (6:23.09) and Australia (6:26.65).

A youthful team has replaced the women's crew that finished fourth at the London Games, with Jess Hall, Maddie Edmunds, Olympia Aldersey and Rebekah Hooper all still qualifying for under 23 racing.

Australian men's quad crew just missed out on a medal, finishing fourth in the final behind Croatia.

Tess Gerrand and Katrina Bateman won the women's pair B final on Saturday after narrowly missing the A final.

Rowing Australia’s Head Coach Drew Ginn said the team had made a confident start to the European tour after just having arrived at the beginning of last week.

“We saw some great racing over the last couple of days against some of our benchmark crews. The four achieved their goal of winning, but most importantly they rowed a solid rhythm and showed good signs of maturity for a new crew. That’s something all these new combinations showed, and all of them walk away from Eton with plenty of optimism for the training block in Italy and the next World Cup. “
 
Overall the British Team topped the World Cup medals table in Eton, followed by Germany in second and New Zealand in third.  With Australia topping the medal tally at the home World Cup in Sydney in March and after the completion of the second of three World Cup regattas, Great Britain sits in first, Australia second and New Zealand third.

The third and final Samsung World Rowing Cup of the 2013 season will take place in Lucerne, Switzerland from 12 - 14 July.

AAP  and Rowing Australia