The reigning Olympic and world champions were put under pressure by New Zealand’s Genevieve Behrent and Rebecca Scown but came through to claim the gold in a time of 6min 54.390sec, just two seconds outside their world best time of 6:50.610.

Behrent and Scown were forced to settle for silver behind the British pair by finishing in 6:54.390, while the podium was completed by Romania’s Laura Oprea and Madalina Beres, who clocked a time of 6:58.760.

“We didn’t want a race with all the bells and whistles today and we’ve been training pretty heavily coming into Poznan," said Glover after earning gold.

“Over the next few weeks is when we will add those bells and whistles”.

Alex Gregory, Moe Sbihi, George Nash and Constantine Louloudis delivered further British success as they triumphed in the men’s four in a time of 5:42.790, with Italy and Australia earning the minor medals in 5:45.400 and 5:45.530 respectively.

New Zealand were the most dominant nation in Poznan, with their gold medal rush being led by Eric Murray and Hamish Bond in the men’s pair.

The world and Olympic champions continued their seven-year unbeaten run by finishing in a time of 6:18.580 to finish top of the podium, while Australia’s Spencer Turrin and Alexander Lloyd took silver in 6:21.290.

Britain’s Alan Sinclair and Stewart Innes clocked 6:23.760 to win the bronze medal.

Mahe Drysdale secured a second gold for New Zealand after he finished two seconds ahead of Croatia’s Damir Martin to win the men’s single sculls in 6:37.810, with a time of 6:42.540 proving enough to give Britain’s Alan Campbell bronze.

New Zealand prevailed in the lightweight men's four in 5:48.340, leaving Denmark and Britain to settle for the minor medals in 5:51.070 and 5:51.780 respectively.

Their fifth title of the day came in the women’s eight, their first international victory in the class, with their crew winning in 6:06.270.

Britain where second behind the Kiwi eight by finishing in 6:08.250, while The Netherlands’ time of 6:12.040 enough for bronze.

New Zealand’s Emma Twigg, though, was forced to settle for being the runner-up in the women’s single sculls as the reigning world champion Kim Brennan won the event in a time of 7:15.980.

Twigg clocked 7:19.150 for silver, while Switzerland’s Jeannie Gmelin rounded off the podium in 7:22.200.