World Rowing honours eight top rowing personalities
FISA, the International Rowing Federation will today award
the 2007 World Rowing Awards in the four awards categories
Coach of the Year, Female Crew of the Year, Male Crew of the
Year and Distinguished Services to Rowing.
The eight recipients of the distinguished awards
this year are:
2007 World Rowing Coach of the Year
* Paul Thompson (AUS)
Chief Coach for Women & Lightweights of British squad
in 2007
2007 World Rowing Male Crew of the Year
* Drew Ginn and Duncan Free
Australian Men’s Pair, 2006 and 2007 World Champions
2007 World Rowing Female Crew of the Year
* Annie Vernon, Debbie Flood,
Frances Houghton and Katherine Grainger
British Women’s Quad, 2007 World Champions
2007 World Rowing Distinguished Service to International
Rowing
* Michel Doutre (FRA)
FISA Umpiring Commission member (1992-2007)
and development consultant for French-speaking Africa
The awards will be handed out on the occasion of the 2007
World Rowing Gala Dinner, which takes place this evening in
Budapest, Hungary. The dinner is part of the 2007 World Rowing
Coaches Conference, and will bring together many coaches and
officials from the international rowing world.
The World Rowing awards winners are chosen based on nominations
submitted to the FISA Executive Committee by FISA commission
members, council members and staff.
World Rowing awards since 1998
FISA Coach of the Year Award
1998 Bent Jensen (DEN)
1999 Al Morrow (CAN)
2000 Jürgen Grobler (GER)
2001 Jutta Lau (GER)
2002 Mike Spracklen (CAN)
2003 Giuseppe La Mura (ITA)
2004 Mike Teti (USA)
2005 Richard Tonks (NZL)
2006 Gianni Postiglione (ITA)
FISA Male Rower or Crew of the Year
2002 GBR men’s pair: James Cracknell and Matthew Pinsent
2003 AUS men's pair: James Tomkins and Drew Ginn
2004 GBR men's four: Matthew Pinsent, Ed Coode, James Cracknell
and Steve Williams
2005 SLO men’s double: Luka Spik, Iztok Cop
2006 POL men’s quad: Konrad Wasielewski, Marek Kolbowicz,
Michal Jelinski, Adam Korol
FISA Female Rower or Crew of the Year
2002 BUL single sculler: Rumyana Neykova
2003 NZL: Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell
2004 GER: Katrin Rutschow-Stomporowski
2005 NZL: Caroline and Georgina Evers-Swindell
2006 BLR: Ekaterina Karsten
FISA Distinguished Service to Rowing Award
2002 Klaus Filter (GER)
2003 Thor Nilsen (NOR)
2004 Mike Sweeney (GBR)
2005 Werner Konrad (GER)
2006 Penny Chuter (GBR)
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