HE has Olympic silver and bronze medals – now Northwich rower Matt Langridge enters 2016 determined to complete the set

And the 32-year-old believes gold for him is one of many Great Britain's Rowing Team is capable of winning at the Games in Rio, especially as he is certain this is the strongest men’s squad he has been part of.

“You just have to look at how the group has grown since Athens in 2004,” said Langridge, who made his Olympic Games debut in Greece.

“We won one gold medal that year, but no one else made a men’s final.

"Now I think every men’s boat should make the final in Brazil, and most of them should medal.

"There is a realistic chance that could happen.

“We had great success in London, where every sweep boat won a medal, but we’ll be looking to step up and change some of them to gold. The scullers can pick up medals too.”

Langridge was seventh in a double scull, with Matt Wells, 12 years ago before going on to medal as part of an eight at Beijing in 2008 and again in London, winning silver and bronze respectively.

The Leander Club member has been part of a pair with James Foad the past two seasons, winning successive silver medals at the World Championships behind Kiwi duo Eric Murray and Hamish Bond as well as claiming the European crown in Poznan last year.

That is all part of a wealth of experience Langridge – world junior champion back in 2001 – can call on going into the final stages of the latest Olympiad.

“You always learn from your mistakes and, with this being my fourth Olympiad, I have made lots of them," he laughed.

"Hopefully that means this will be my best one.

“When it gets to Olympic year, the instinct is to try and do that bit extra but the best advice I could give is you shouldn’t really do anything you haven’t done before as you can sometimes go over the edge.

“It’s about being consistent and trusting in what you have done up to this point.

"That is the whole reason we have done all that training over the past three years and gone to all those camps; everything is tried and tested.

“You just have to have confidence and stick to what you know, there is no point throwing everything out of the window.”

Langridge was one of the British rowers who made a recce to Rio in 2014 to see the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, the city-centre venue that will host the Olympic regatta in August.

“Out of all the Olympics I have been to, I think this will be the most scenic and spectacular,” he said.

“We don’t often have rowing right in the centre of the city, we’re usually about an hour’s drive away.

"It’s also a natural lake, unlike the others, and we’ll have Christ the Redeemer looking over us so this will be the iconic venue of the Games.

“It will obviously have its challenges too; it’s next to the sea so conditions may play a part – but all the reports from the World Junior Championships last year said it was pretty fair. That's the main thing.

“I’ve got the two Olympic medals I don’t want, now I want the one I do.

"It would be nice to complete the collection this time.”