Olympic and world rowing champion Rob Waddell. Photo / NZ Herald
Three of New Zealand's finest sports people are on a short list to win rowing's most prestigious award.
Single sculling Olympic champion Rob Waddell and two-time Olympic gold medallists Caroline Meyer and Georgina Earl are among six nominees for the Thomas Keller Medal.
The medal, which was first awarded in
1990, celebrates rowers who have had an outstanding career in the sport, shown exemplary sportsmanship and technical mastery of the sport.
Waddell, who was chef de mission for New Zealand's team at last year's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and will be in charge of the team for the Rio Olympics next year, won the Olympic single sculls gold at Sydney in 2000, having won world championship titles in each of the previous two years.
Twins Meyer and Earl, formerly Evers-Swindell, won back-to-back double sculling gold medals at Athens in 2004 and Beijing four years later. Their Beijing achievement was the first time that title had been successfully defended at the Olympics.
