A crew of four New Zealanders rowing across 2,500km across the Tasman Sea from Sydney, Australia to Auckland, New Zealand thought that they would be home by Christmas 2011. December 25 came and went and their 10.5m rowing boat continued to sit under sea anchor, going nowhere in the middle of the Tasman Sea.

The appeal of 1,000 Euros going to anyone who could break an indoor rowing record helped motivate three competitors at the 15th edition of the Amsterdam World Ergohead to do just that.

Nominations are now open for the 2012 Thomas Keller Medal “for an outstanding career in rowing”. FISA’s Thomas Keller Medal is the most prestigious medal awarded in rowing. It honours a rower who has had a long and successful rowing career and who has made an outstanding contribution to rowing as a competitor and as a sports personality.

The Atlantic Ocean rowing race, the 2011 Talisker Whiskey Atlantic Challenge, has a winning crew. In their boat named Box Number 8, work colleagues Toby Iles and Nick Moore of Great Britain put in a monumental effort to finish first and just outside the course record for two people.