Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter of Great Britain celebrate during lightweight Men's Double Sculls Final A of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games rowing event at Shunyi Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing, China, Aug. 17, 2008. The British duet won the gold medal of the event.(Xinhua Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter of Great Britain scull strokes during lightweight Men's Double Sculls Final A of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games rowing event at Shunyi Rowing-Canoeing Park in Beijing, China, Aug. 17, 2008. The British duet won the gold medal of the event (Xinhua/Wu Xiaoling) Photo Gallery>>>

    BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- Britain won the Olympic gold medal in the lightweight men's double sculls on Sunday, adding to two its haul at the Olympic rowing regatta.

    The gold came after Britain's men's four came from behind to take their third straight Olympic title on Saturday.

    Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter, who won three pre-Games, also set a best Olympic time of 6 minutes, 10.99 in the tailwind conditions.

    The crew led by a boat length by the 1,500 meters and held off a fast finishing Dimitrios Mougios and Vasileios Polymeros of Greece who took silver in 6:11.72.

    Rasmus Nicholai Quist Hansen and Mads Reinholdt Rasmussen of Denmark, world champions in 2006 and 2007, took bronze in 6:12.45.

    China's Zhang Guolin and Sun Jie finished fifth in 6:16.69.

    "We are the number one and Olympic champion," said Hunter with big smiles on face. "I've been dying for this day since I started rowing. The national anthem, the flag. It's a dream come true."

    "It's the family behind the scene," the 30-year-old Briton said of the reason for his success.

    "The last 200m were just a case of 'keep going.' - in October (2007) we said we wanted to come here and win; and now we have," the 22-year-old Purchase said.

    "I'm very satisfied. It's my first Olympic medal," said Greece's Mougios. His crew member Polymeros was also a bronze medalist in Athens.