Thomas Keller also known as Thomi Keller (24 December 1924 – 28 September 1989)[2] was the president of Féderation Internationale des Sociétés d'Aviron (FISA), the governing body of international rowing, from 1958 until his death in 1989,[3][1] and president of the General Association of International Sports Federations from 1969 to 1987.

[4] He was also a qualified chemical engineer and president of Swiss Timing,[4] a company specialising in sports chronometry which is now part of the Swatch group.

As a student, Keller was a member of the Swiss university teams for Nordic combined skiing and for ski-jumping.

[5][6] Keller was chosen to row at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, but did not do so as his national Olympic Committee chose to boycott the games in protest at the Soviet Union's invasion of Hungary (see 1956 Hungarian Revolution).

It is presented by FISA to recently retired rowers who had had an outstanding international career.