Rower Emma Twigg maintained her flawless record in Paris by winning her single sculls semi-final in fine style.
Twigg, the defending champion, took control of her race early and won in 7min 17.19s from Lithuanian Viktorija Senkute, with the USA third. There was time for a quick thumbs-up from Twigg to New Zealand supporters after she had crossed the line.
Twigg has now won her heat, quarter-final and semi-final in Paris.
As a veteran of five Olympics, Twigg knows how to pace her campaign and she certainly looked good today, having put clear water between herself and the Lithuanian before the halfway point.
Without ever seeming to strain, she won by two seconds and was more than four seconds faster than was Karolien Florijn of the Netherlands, who won the other semi-final.
Twigg described the race as "another step forward".
"It feels good to be in my fourth Olympic final and I'm looking forward to Saturday," she said.
"At the start of the week, four races seemed a lot, but now I'm enjoying every race as the week, and potentially my career, is ending."
She said that while not too much can be read into times of different races, it felt good to have recorded the fastest time of the day and she took confidence that she was rowing fast.
Twigg’s team-mate Tom Mackintosh had a slightly tougher time of it, but also qualified for the single sculls final.
In a competitive men’s semi-final, Mackintosh finished second to the impressive Dutch rower Simon van Dorp, who won in 6min 42.39s, just over two seconds ahead of the New Zealander.
Mackintosh had a margin of nearly a second on third place-getter Tim Brys of Belgium.