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Ocean rowing is the sport of rowing across oceans. ... On 18 June 2019, Jacob Adoram Hendrickson set the Guinness World Record for completing the longest solo ...
By the end of his circumnavigation, Eruç had set several ocean rowing world records including the first person to row three oceans, [6] the first rower to cross the Indian Ocean from Australia to mainland Africa (in two segments), [7] the longest distance rowed across the Indian Ocean, [8] and the longest distance rowed across the Atlantic ...
Fiann Paul (born Paweł Pietrzak; 15 August 1980) is a Polish-Icelandic explorer known for his exploits in ocean rowing. [1]Paul is the fastest ocean rower (2016) and the most record-breaking ocean rower (2017).
Leven Brown, British sportsman, ocean rower. Leven Brown (born 14 August 1972) [1] is a British Ocean Rower who has held five Guinness World Records. [2] [3] He along with his crew Don Lennox, Livar Nysted and Ray Carroll also held the world record for "longest distance rowed in 24h in an ocean rowing boat" at 118 miles, is the first and thus far only in the sport ever to have held North and ...
A number of record times were set at the 2005 World Rowing Championships held on the Nagara River at Kaizu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan, but due to a fast current caused by heavy rainfall from the remnants of Typhoon Mawar, World Rowing declared that the race results were not eligible to be considered as world best times.
Nysted has achieved five world records in ocean rowing. In 2010 he – together with three other rowers – successfully crossed the North Atlantic Ocean in a rowing boat, breaking a 114-year-old record. In January 2013 he went on another journey, this time the plan was to cross the South Atlantic Ocean with a boat called Avalon.
She holds four Guinness World Records for ocean rowing, including first woman to row solo across three oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian. [3] She has rowed over 15,000 miles, taken around 5 million oarstrokes, and spent cumulatively over 500 days of her life at sea in a 23-foot rowboat.
Eugene Smurgis (19 August 1938 – 15 November 1993) was a Russian Arctic marine explorer, ultra-long distance rower and Arctic rowing pioneer. From 1967 to 1993 Eugene rowed a total of 48,000 km [1] on oceans, seas and rivers; a distance longer than the circumference of the Earth and the greatest distance ever rowed by a solo ultra-endurance rower.