The announcement will be made at the World Rowing Coaches Conference which is currently taking place in Windsor, Great Britain.

The five awards will be revealed on Saturday night, 22 January, during the coaches conference gala dinner at the Henley River and Rowing Museum.

The shortlist for the 2010 World Rowing Awards:

2010 World Rowing Coach of the Year –
Dick Tonks, New Zealand
– Hartmut Buschbacher, Germany
– Johan Flodin, Sweden
– Nicola Bralic, Croatia
– Gianni Postiglione, Greece

2010 World Rowing Male Crew of the Year
– Ondrej Synek, men’s single scull, Czech Republic
– Eric Murray, Hamish Bond, men’s pair, New Zealand
– Gregor Hauffe, Maximilian Reinelt, Kristof Wilke, Florian Menningen, Richard Schmidt, Lukas Mueller, Toni Seifert, Sebastian Schmidt, Martin Sauer (coxswain), men’s eight, Germany

2010 World Rowing Female Crew of the Year
– Frida Svensson, women’s single scull, Sweden
– Anna Goodale, Amanda Polk, Jamie Redman, Taylor Ritzel, Esther Lofgren, Eleanor Logan, Meghan Musnicki, Katherine Glessner, Mary Whipple (coxswain), women’s eight, United States
– Anna Watkins, Katherine Grainger, women’s double sculls, Great Britain
– Juliette Haigh, Rebecca Scown, women’s pair, New Zealand

2010 World Rowing Adaptive Crew of the Year
– Tom Aggar, ASM1x, Great Britain
– Anthony Theriault, Meghan Montgomery, Victoria Nolan, David Blair, Laura Comeau, LTAMix4+, Canada
– Dmytro Ivanov, Iryna Kyrychenko, TAMix2x, Ukraine

2010 Rowing Distinguished Service to International Rowing
– Peter Morrison, Great Britain
– Hart Perry, United States
– Maurice Paschoud, Switzerland