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Reeve and Whitlam: Final appearance
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Both of Britain's women's crews made it safely through their repechages at the Shunyi rowing lake, with the double sculls making the semi-finals while the pairs made the final.
Hester Goodsell and Helen Casey won their repechage in good style by comfortably holding off the fast-finishing Greek boat and third-placed Cuban crew.
A top three finish would have been good enough but Goodsell and Casey made sure with a promising victory to avoid dropping down to the C race where a 13th-placed finished is the best on offer.
In the women's pairs, Louisa Reeve and Olivia Whitlam moved through to the final after finishing second behind New Zealand's talented duo Juliette Haigh and Nicola Coles.
Only two of the four-boat race went through and after Australia took an early lead, New Zealand came storming through and the GB boat followed them to dump out the Aussies and book a place in the final.
Last chance
In other repechages, defending champions USA and Australia made the men's eight final after fighting it out between themselves.
The Americans just edged out the Australian boat, who had to go through the repechage after finishing last in their opening race when their rudder jammed, causing the boat to veer suddenly into another lane.
The duo now face Britain and World Champions Canada in the blue riband final on Sunday, the last race of the regatta, alongside Australia, the Netherlands and Poland.
Germany's women's quad, including rowing legend Kathrin Boron, made it to the final to keep up her personal bid for a fifth Olympic gold medal.
