Last chance for Thomas Keller Medal nominations

FISA’s Thomas Keller Medal is the most prestigious medal awarded in rowing and it celebrates someone who has had an outstanding career in rowing.

Nominations for the award can be made by you through the World Rowing website. For the direct link to the nominations form, please click here.

To be awarded the Thomas Keller Medal, the following five factors are taken into consideration:

1. Success at the international level
2. “Type” of career
3. Technical mastery of the sport
4. Sportsmanship
5. “Legendary” aspect

In principle only one medal can be awarded in any one year and the medal is awarded within five years of an athlete’s retirement.

Former winners include James Tomkins (Australia), Kathrin Boron (Germany), Elisabeta Lipa (Romania), Steve Redgrave (Great Britain), Marnie McBean (Canada) and last year Jueri Jaanson of Estonia. To view the full list of winners to date, please click here.

The award will be presented on 26 May 2012 at the 2012 Samsung World Rowing Cup in Lucerne, Switzerland. It will be presented by Dominik Keller, the son of Thomas Keller, and Denis Oswald, president of FISA.