Team China's Chen Yunxia, Zhang Ling, Lyu Yang and Cui Xiaotong won the gold medal in rowing women's quadruple sculls final on Wednesday.

They paddled to victory with 6:05.13 in the final, ahead of Team Poland (6:11.36) and Team Australia (6:12.08), who finished second and third, respectively, at Sea Forest Waterway in Tokyo Bay.

Earlier, Chinese rowers Zhang Liang and Liu Zhiyu claimed the bronze medal in men's double sculls final.

French pair Hugo Boucheron and Matthieu Androdias clocked 6:00.33 to claim the gold, while Dutch duo Melvin Twellaar and Stef Brdenink finished 6:00.53 to take the silver.

Later in the day, Lu Shiyu, Qin Miaomiao, Wang Fei and Liu Xinyu of Team China finished fifth during the rowing women's four final.

Team France won the women's four final with 6:15.37, ahead of second-placed Dutch Team (6:15.71) and third-placed Ireland (6:20.46).

In the men's quadruple sculls, rowers of the Netherlands set a world best time of 5:32.03 to claim the gold medal.

Dutch rowers Lucas Theodoor Dirk Uittenbogaard, Abe Wiersma, Tone Wieten and Koen Metsemakers improved the previous world record, created by Team Ukraine in 2014, by 0.23 seconds.

Team Britain took the silver with 5:33.75, edging third-placed Australia by 0.22 seconds.