Fast water on Amsterdam's Bosbaan helped the women's four beat the eight-year-old world-best time by more than 10 seconds in 6:14.36 at the world championships.

If imitation is indeed the best form of flattery, then New Zealand elite sport is in a good space. New Zealand's high performance sporting systems are catching the eye, with delegations from across the globe visiting this country to watch.

New Zealand's greatest sports team of the moment? No, not the obvious one.

An ambitious project launched by two of the most powerful sporting organisations in New Zealand aims to take Olympic success to unprecedented levels.

Emma Twigg is risking a piece of Olympic history for peace of mind.

Rowing New Zealand's plans for an eights programme is taking shape.

The fanfare should be loud and hearty as New Zealand's elite rowers arrive back in the coming weeks.

Victories for double scullers Fiona Bourke and Zoe Stevenson, and single sculler Emma Twigg capped off a superb world championship regatta for NZ's rowers.

Start as you mean to go on; for lightweight women Julia Edward and Sophie MacKenzie it'd be hard to find a more appropriate motto.

Hamish Bond, Eric Murray and coxswain Caleb Shepherd have done their best to disprove the theory that coxed pair skiffs are merely 'water taxis' or 'lead sleds'.

Mahe is the man to beat in Amsterdam this week.

Expect Emma Twigg to be more driven than usual to win her first world rowing title when the championships start in Amsterdam tomorrow night.

After 60 days and 4000km of sometimes "horrendous" Pacific Ocean seas, two women have rowed from Los Angeles to Waikiki, Hawaii, and raised money for charities.

They're not keeping count - at least that's what they say - but Eric Murray and Hamish Bond are showing no sign of relaxing their phenomenal grip on the coxless pair event.

A New Zealand academic is living her own high-seas adventure tale, dodging flying fish and fending off squid during a 4000km row across the Pacific Ocean.