Rowing/Sailing

Stuart Whincup BBC Look North World’s Toughest Row Team Graft have raised more than £220,000 for charity Four men who faced huge waves, extreme weather and had their boat skewered by a fish have completed their 3,000 mile row across the Atlantic Ocean. The group from Teesside and Yorkshire were …

George King & Dotty McLeod BBC News, Cambridgeshire PA Zara Lachlan, 21, has just completed a 3,600 nautical-mile journey from Europe to South America A 21-year-old has who became the first woman and youngest person to row solo from Europe to South America said it “feels very strange to be …

2Stroke.team Karl Austen and Ed Shaw said they were “thrilled” to have arrived in Antigua Two friends have completed the “world’s toughest row” across the Atlantic Ocean, from La Gomera in the Canary Islands to English Harbour in Antigua. Karl Austen, from Ascot, and Ed Shaw, from Bracknell, have been …

Elliot Ball BBC News, South West Julie Skentelbery BBC Radio Cornwall Oars of Thunder Oars of Thunder – (l-r) Nathaniel Rothwell, Kim Tolfrey, Sally Crabb and Harry Poulson – finished sixth overall A rowing team from Cornwall have finished their “epic adventure” to cross the Atlantic Ocean after 40 days …

Alice Smith BBC News, West of England BBC John Watling, Niall Brannigan, Sam Weber, and Jason Wilder spent 52 days at sea A four-man team has completed a gruelling 3,000-mile row across the Atlantic, arriving in Antigua after 52 days at sea. Team Seasoar – made up of skipper Niall …

Alexandra Bassingham BBC News, West of England PA Media Hartpury College students Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne (L) and Rebecca Wilde (R) won bronze in the Women’s Rowing Double Sculls at the Paris Olympics Tall and sporty young people are being encouraged to attend a talent identification day, aimed at finding the next …

A couple in their 60s are proving an adventurous spirit does not stop with age as they reach the final stages of a transatlantic rowing competition. Nicky and Bob Parr are taking part in the 3,000 mile World’s Toughest Row event after setting off from Spain in December. They have …

A former professional cyclist has swapped tarmac for open water and taken on a 3,000 mile challenge. Annasley Park from Herefordshire is attempting to row solo across the Atlantic, from Gran Canaria to Barbados, and raise hundreds of thousand of pounds for charity. She set off on 1 February and …

A “beautiful and brilliant museum” could face closure, its director has said. The River & Rowing Museum in Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, is facing a “really difficult” financial situation, according to Steve O’Connor, who said “we’re very, very open to all conversations”. The museum is seeking ideas from the public …

More than 300 people from across the North East and Cumbria are due to take part in what organisers say is the “biggest rowing event” to take place on a lake since Victorian times. Lakeland Rowing Club (RC) held the first Derwentwater Head of the modern era in 2023, with …