Ramps up after failures
Murray and Michael Brake – beaten only by Croatian stars Valent and Martin Sinkovic, gold medal winner in Rio in the double sculls.
While Rowing NZ’s selectors may be unwilling to break up that partnership, Bond could team up in his former boat with fellow eights crew member James Lassche.
The 30-year-old is a former two-time world champion lightweight silver medallist and regularly teamed up with Bond at national championships.
Representing the Southern Regional Performance Centre, the pair have won a host of national titles together and in 2014 in quick conditions at Lake Karapiro recorded the secondfastest time in history for a men’s pair of six minutes 12.42 seconds – only bettered by Bond and Murray’s time of 6min 8.50sec in their heat at the 2012 London Olympics.