Chris Martin (rower)

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Christopher David Martin (born January 1981 in Chertsey, Surrey, United Kingdom) is a world-class rowing champion.

Martin started rowing in 1994 at Hampton School; by the time he left school, he had already received medals at 3 Junior World Rowing Championships. At under-23 level he continued to row for the Great Britain squad as an athlete for the Molesey Boat Club, Surrey, and won a gold medal at the under-23 World Championships in 2000 in the Coxed Fours event. He also won silver in the coxless fours race a year later, and raced the same year in the Senior World Championships in Lucerne in the coxed fours, finishing 3rd.

In 2005 Martin became the 30th person to row across the Atlantic Ocean single handed. Despite breaking oars, the desalination unit, rudder and GPS unit, he finally completed the row in 68 days 15 hours and 19 minutes.

He plans to become the first person to row across the North Pacific Ocean — which requires the attempt to be land to land without assistance in 2009 — with Mick Dawson. The row would begin in Choshi, Japan and end in San Francisco, United States.

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