World’s Toughest Row - Atlantic 2025


Seas Life

Seas Life Ocean Rowing Team Coached by Duncan Roy Rowing Roy

Team Size: Pair

Crew: Julian Evans, Stu Kershaw, Ollie Phillips, Tom Clowes

Charities: The Matt Hampson Foundation, Cure Parkinson's, My Name'5 Doddie Foundation, Clock Tower Foundation, Shiplake Primary School, Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity


Force Horizon

Force Horizon Ocean Rowing Team Coached by Duncan Roy Rowing Roy

Team Size: Pair

Crew: Kip Wells & Chris Ambler

Charity: Jon Egging Trust


The Entrepreneur Ship 2025

The Entrepreneur Ship Ocean Rowing Team Coached by Duncan Roy Rowing Roy

Team Size: Pair

Crew: Julian Galliven & Phil Johns

Charity: UnLtd


World’s Toughest Row - Atlantic 2024


Power of 1

Team Size: Five

Crew: Conor McCarthy, Enda McNicholson, Daragh Kelly, Roger McMorrow & John O'Driscoll

Charity: Heart Children Ireland & Children's Heart Centre - CHI Crumlin

- 3rd Overall

- Time: 39 days 14 hours 31 minutes


Team GRAFT

Team Size: Four

Crew: Dean Fitzmaurice, Richard Hornsey, Nicholas Perks & Matthew Pitchforth

Charity: Ronald McDonald House Charities UK

- 4th Overall

- Time: 39 days 16 hours 27 minutes


Team V3nture

Team Size: Trio

Crew: Rob Cross, Rob Treasure & Charlie Newman

Charity: Macmillan Cancer Support

- First in Trios

- Time: 42 days 3 hours 15 minutes


The Entrepreneur Ship 2024

Team Size: Pair

Crew: Will Lomas and Adam Hardman

Charity: UnLtd

- Time: 47 days 1 hours 1 minutes


World’s Toughest Row - Atlantic 2023


WaveBreakers

Team Size: Trio

Crew: Bobbie Mellor, Katherine Antrobus & Hatty Carder

Charity: UNHCR & WWF

- World Record: Fastest Female Trio to row the Atlantic Ocean

- First in Trios

- Time: 40 days 10 hours 51 minutes


Sam Glover - The Entrepreneur Ship 2023

Team Size: Solo

Crew: Sam Glover

Charity: UnLtd

- First in Solos

- Time: 42 days 3 hours 15 minutes


Spirit of Hospitality

Team Size: Pair

Crew: Chris Mitchell & Robbie Laidlaw

Charity: Hospitality Action

- First in Pairs

- Time: 38 days 15 hours 3 minutes


Blue Tusk

Team Size: Trio

Crew: Aaron Kneebone, Chris Wood & David Tiplady

Charity: Tusk & Blue Marine Foundation

- First in Trios

- Time: 38 days 18 hours 29 minutes


Jamie Howard - Atlantic Rowmad

Team Size: Solo

Crew: Jamie Howard

Charity: NASS National Axial Spondyloarthritis Society

- Time: 69 days 17 hours 56 minutes


Team Marduk

Team Size: Four

Crew: Jack Chapman, Alex Jackson, Adam Carrier & George Dagnall

Charity: Head Up and Bowel Cancer UK

- Time: 38 days 3 hours 47 minutes


World’s Toughest Row - Pacific 2023


Kiwi Fondue

Team Size: Four

Crew: Alex Brooker, Alex Gammeter, Rich Henderson & Lorenz Gammeter

Charity: Coral Vita

- World Record: Fastest team to row the mid Pacific Ocean

- Race winners

- Time: 29 days 17 hours 29 minutes


Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2022


Dark Trio

Team Size: Trio

Crew: Gareth, Charles and Aaron

Charity: Yound Minds UK

- World Record: Fastest Trio to row the Atlantic Ocean

- First in Trios

- Time: 35 days 1 hour 33 minutes


The Dreamboats

Team Size: Pair

Crew: Ben & Charlie

Charity: Green Heart Project & 2041 Foundation

- First in Pairs

- Time: 40 days 8 hours 59 minutes


Mike Bates - The Atlantic Grappler

Team Size: Solo

Crew: Mike - Atlantic Grappler

Charity: Leeds Hospitals Charity - Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at Leeds General Infirmary & REORG

- First in Solos

- Time: 46 days 6 hours 10 minutes


Miriam Payne - Seas The Day

Team Size: Solo

Crew: Miriam Payne

Charity: Wellbeing of Women & Mind

- Race Record: Fastest Female Solo

- First Female Solo

- Time: 59 days 16 hours 36 minutes


The FriendShip

Team Size: Four

Crew: Jack, Hamish, Arthur & Euan

Charities: Drive Forward Foundation, Friends of Kiwoko Hospital & Churches Housing Action Team (CHAT)

- Third Overall

- Time: 32 days 20 hours 18 minutes


Jamie Carr - Nothing Ventured

Team Size: Solo

Crew: Jamie Carr

Charity: Cancer Fund for Children & City in the Community

- Second in Solos

- Time: 53 days 1 hour 12 minutes


In Our Element

Team Size: Four

Crew: Hollie, Mike, Rachel & Elliot

Charity: The University of Portsmouth’s Centre for Enzyme Innovation to Revolutionise Plastic Use

- Third in Mixed Teams

- Time: 42 days 9 hours 19 minutes


Atlantic Endeavoar

Team Size: Four

Crew: Olly, Henry, Louis & Will

Charity: The Oli Hilsdon Foundation & Mind

- 7th Overall

- Time: 33 days 23 hours 24 minutes


The Atlantic Girls

Team Size: Trio

Crew: Millie, Laura-Jayne & Frankie

Charity: The Brain Tumour Charity

- Second in Female Class

- Time: 46 days 21 hours 56 minutes


Bernie Hollywood - The Boat of Hope

Team Size: Solo

Crew: Bernie Hollywood

Charity: Samaritans & Love Rowing

- Time: 109 days 14 hours 16 minutes


Independent 2022


Simon Howes - The Atlantic Rower

Team Size: Solo

Crew: Simon Howes

Charity: Isle of Wight Red Squirrel Trust

- Time: 72 days 1 hour 45 minutes


Pacific 2022


Latitude 35

Team Size: Four

Crew: Brooke Downes, Sophia Denison-Johnston, Libby Costello, Adrienne Smith

Charity: Anxiety & Depression Association of America

- World Record: Fastest Women’s Team to row the mid Pacific Ocean

- Time 34 days 14 hours 39 minutes


Independent 2021


Jack Jarvis - United We Conquer

- World Record: First person to row from mainland Europe to mainland North America

- Solo

- Time: 111 days 12 hours 22 minutes


Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2021


Five In A Row

- 3rd place overall in one of the tightest races known in TWAC race history

- 1st 5 person team

- Time 36 days 3 hours 33 minutes


Anna Victorious

- 5th place in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2021 Race Class

- Time: 37 days 8 hours 58 minutes


The Bubbleheads

- 6th place in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2021 Race Class

- Time: 37 days 12 hours 45 minutes


East Rows West

- 1st place in the trio category

- 7th place in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2021 Race Class

- Time: 37 days 17 hours 44 minutes


The Salty Sappers

- 9th place in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2021 Race Class

- Time: 39 days 7 hours 20 minutes


Atlantic Nomads

- World Record: Fastest mixed trio to row across the Atlantic Ocean

- First in mixed teams

- Third in trio category

- 10th place in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2021 Race Class

- Time: 40 days 0 hours 37 minutes


One Ocean Crew

- Winners of the Women’s Class

- 11th place in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2021 Race Class

- Time: 40 days 4 hours 7 minutes


The Mothership

- 2nd place in the Women’s Class

- 13th place in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2021 Race Class

- Time: 40 days 11 hours 25 minutes


Emergensea Duo

- 1st mixed pair

- 4th in pairs category

- 25th place in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2021 Race Class

- Time: 51 days 3 hours 48 minutes


The Entrepreneur Ship

- World Record: Oldest pair to row any ocean

- 7th in pairs category

- 29th place in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2021

- Time: 53 days 3 hours 42 minutes


Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2020


On shoulders of giants

- Winners of the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2020 Race Class

- Time: 35 days 6 hours 42 minutes


HPF Atlantic

- 3rd place in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2020 Race Class

- Time: 37 days 1 hours 46 minutes


Oardacity

- 4th place in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2020 Race Class

- Time: 40 days 6 hours 35 minutes


For A Fitter Planet

- 5th place in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2020 Race Class

- Time: 42 days 3 hours 47 minutes


Atlantic Antics

- Youngest female trio to row any ocean

- 13th place in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2020 Race Class

- Time: 42 days 3 hours 47 minutes


Atlantic titan

- 3rd place in the Race Solo Class

- 14th place in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2020 Race Class

- Time: 53 days 3 hours 20 minutes


Atlantic Solo

- 5th place in the Race Solo Class

- 16th place in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2020 Race Class

- Time: 64 days 3 hours 5 minutes


Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2019


Fortitude IV

- Winners of the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge 2019

- Time: 32 days 12 hours 35 minutes


BROAR

- First three brothers to row any ocean

- Youngest trio to row across the Atlantic Ocean

- Fastest trio to row across the Atlantic Ocean

- Winners of the trio category

- Third place overall

- Time: 35 days 9 hours 9 minutes


WHITE ROWS - MARCUS BEALE

- Winner of the Solo Category

- 22nd place overall

- Time: 48 days 21 hours 51 minutes


ROWed less travelled

- Fastest Australian team to row across the Atlantic Ocean

- Second place overall in the race

-Time: 34 days 10 hours 46 minutes


The Ancient Mariners

- Oldest combined age for a 4 man crew

- 23rd place overall

- Time: 49 days 8 hours 40 minutes


force atlantic

- Youngest person to row the Atlantic as part of a team

- First all serving British Army Team

- 9th place overall

- Time: 37 days 13 hours 53 minutes

All Photos Above Credited to Ben Duffy & Atlantic Campaigns Photography Team


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