HEBDEN'S Andy Hodge notched up a hat-trick of GB Senior Rowing Trials titles on Tuesday when he won the men's pairs in Hazewinkel, Belgium, with Peter Reed.

The competition is a key indicator for the British selectors ahead of this year's World Cups and World Championships, which are are held at Dorney Lake in August.

And Hodge lifted the pairs crown for the third successive year. He and Reid were defending champions and, as predicted, found the toughest opposition in Steve Williams and Alex Partridge, the other half of British rowing's world champion men's four.

Hodge won the event in 2004 with Alex Partridge.