Australian quad rowers win silver medal

Australia have won silver behind defending Olympic rowing champions Germany in the men's quad sculls in Rio.

The Australians were favoured to break their Olympic rowing gold medal drought from London but the Germans led from start to finish.

The crew of Karsten Forsterling, Sasha Belonogoff, Cameron Girdlestone and James McRae mounted a late challenge but couldn't make up the ground and finished 1.15 seconds behind.

Estonia was third.