ROWER Tom Ford and the Team GB men's eight are through to the Tokyo Olympics final.

But for his younger sister, Emily, this particular Olympics regatta is unfortunately over.

The results and emotions could not have been more contrasting for the Holmes Chapel siblings who studied at The Grange School in Hartford.

Tom and his Great Britain teammates finished second to New Zealand in the repechage at the Sea Forest Waterway in the early hours of this morning.

Emily and the Team GB women's eight sadly finished last in their repechage and were eliminated.

The eights finals are scheduled for the early hours of Friday morning, men’s at 2.25am as the concluding event to this Olympics regatta.

Men's eight repechage result:

New Zealand 5:22.04

Great Britain 5:23.32

United States 5:23.43

Australia 5:25.06

Romania 5:27.14

Women's eight repechage result:

Romania 5:52.99

Canada 5:53.73

China 5:55.69

Australia 5:57.15

Great Britain 6:05.26

The Fords and their crews had to go the long way round to try and reach the finals due to failing to gain automatic qualification in Sunday’s heats.

It was a disappointing start to the Tokyo adventure for them both.

The men’s eight, with Tom in the stroke seat, finished last of three boats in heat two, with the top two boats in heat one also posting considerably faster times.

The Dutch – who they beat by almost seven seconds in the World Cup regatta in Lucerne in May – finished first and New Zealand were second.

That left Tom and his teammates Mohamed Sbihi, Josh Bugajski, Jacob Dawson, Tom George, Charles Elwes, Oliver Wynne-Griffith, James Rudkin and cox Harry Fieldman having to race United States, Romania, Australia and New Zealand in the repechage for the remaining four places in the final.

As the Romanian and Australian boats were considerably slower than Team GB in the heats, Tom and his team were expected to qualify.

Sbihi, who was also a Team GB flag bearer in Friday’s opening ceremony, refused to blame the distraction caused by a malfunctioning start mechanism for the disappointing display.

“Regardless of the start it wasn’t good enough in the first km,” he said.

“The Dutch did a great job of putting their nose ahead and once you’re in that position in an eight it becomes a luxury to be there.”

Men’s eight, heat two:

Netherlands 5:30.66 (Qualified)

New Zealand 5:32.11 (Repechage)

Great Britain 5:34.40 (Repechage)

Emily and the women’s eight were almost eight seconds slower than the rest of the boats in the two heats.

New Zealand and USA qualified automatically, leaving Team GB to fight with Canada, China, Romania and Australia in the repechage for the four places up for grabs.

Women’s eight, heat one:

New Zealand 6:07.65(Qualified)

Canada 6:07.97 (Repechage)

China 6:10.77 (Repechage)

Great Britain 6:26.76 (Repechage)