Giedrė Rakauskaitė insists Great Britain's PR3 mixed coxed four squad won't let their standards drop at the 2023 World Rowing Championships despite a decade of dominance.

The four have not been beaten at the World Rowing Championships, World Rowing Cup or Paralympic Games since 2010.

They have gone from strength to strength in 2023, breaking the world record at the World Rowing Cup II in Varese, Italy in June with a time of 6:47.29.

And the Paralympic gold medallist believes the high standards in the squad help keep the British team on top while the rest of the world continue to get better.

"The rest of the world is getting so much faster," said Rakauskaitė.

"You can see the times just suddenly shifted by ten seconds, in 2019 we won by a margin of 11 seconds, now we are winning by five seconds.

"It is not like we have got slower; we are still beating our own times, but the rest of the world is so much faster.

"Now we are actually under pressure to think to ourselves, 'What do we need to do to stay ahead'?

"We have had internal pressure for a while, we know that eyes are on us and we are kind of used to it.

"We have a really good cox and what matters is what we do now as a team.

"There is obviously a change of crew every year, at least one person has changed per season.

"I think with that comes the challenge of bringing everyone else to your level or sometimes matching yourself to the new person's level.

"Realistically, they only come faster.

"You have to beat someone out of the seat to get into the crew, so you have to be faster, you have to be better.

"You have to push someone out, that is kind of how it works, so all the young people keep us on our toes."

With quota spots for next summer’s Paralympic Games at stake in Belgrade, the World Rowing Championships are more important than ever.

Rakauskaitė wants to break her own world record at the event but believes Great Britain will need near-perfect conditions to beat the time they set in Italy.

"I would prefer to finish the season with another world record," added Rakauskaitė.

"That is my target.

"A world record kind of depends on having the perfect conditions, I highly doubt we will get another world record in the headwind.

"I would say success for us would be to race better than we did last time, we know our faults, so we are just trying to iron out the curves."

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