BRIEFLY
There’s a very exclusive club in world rowing – the sub 5:40 club. Membership is limited to those athletes who have publically posted a 2000m ergo time below 5 minutes and 40 seconds.
Heading into the summer racing season this year the club had just three members; New Zealand’s Olympic champion Rob Waddell, Matthias Siejkowski of Germany and Belarussian Pavel Shurmei.