Chris Martin (rower)

Chris Martin is a rower born 27 January 1981 in Chertsey, Surrey, England.^[1]

Contents 1 Early Rowing Career 2 Ocean Rowing 3 References 4 External links

Early Rowing Career

Martin started rowing at 14 at Hampton School. At the end of his third year of rowing he raced as part of the British team and remained part of the British rowing team at six World Rowing Championships returning with a medal from each.^[1]

1997 Hazewinkel, Belgium : World Junior Championships JM8+ 3rd^[2]

1998 Ottensheim, Austria : World Junior Championships JM4+ 3rd^[3]

1999 Plovdiv, Bulgaria : World Junior Championships JM4- 2nd^[4]

2000 Copenhagen, Denmark : Nations Cup M4+ 1st^[5]

2001 Ottensheim, Austria : U23 World Championships M4- 2nd^[6]

2001 Lucerne, Switzerland : World Rowing Championships M4+ 3rd^[7]

Martin also competed in the World Cup races in 2002^[8] but without repeating his earlier medal winning form.

Ocean Rowing

Having been dropped from the GB squad, Martin turned his attention to Ocean rowing and in 2005/06 rowed across the Atlantic Ocean solo, as part of the Woodvale Atlantic Rowing Race^[9] in 68 days, 15 hours and 19 minutes to become the 31st solo ocean rower to cross the Atlantic Ocean on the East to West route.^[10] During his row he also conducted observations on the ocean currents affecting his boat Pacific Pete for Earth & Space Research as part of Ocean Surface Current Analyses Real-time (OSCAR).^[11]

Martin remained an active member within the Ocean Rowing community and was one of the co-founders of the Association of Ocean Rowers.^[12]

After this Martin spent three years preparing for a double handed row with Mick Dawson. On 8 May 2009 Martin and Dawson set off from Choshi, Japan into the North Pacific Ocean.^[13] After an eventful journey where the crew sighted the US Naval research vessel SBX-1.^{[14] [15]} and ran out of food requiring a helicopter resupply ^[16] from Wayne Lackey^[17] 189 Days, 10 Hours, 55 Minutes after the pair set out from Japan they rowed their boat Bojangles underneath the Golden Gate Bridge on Friday 13 November 2009.^{[16] [18]}

In 2010 Martin and Dawson were given a Guinness World Record for being the first team to row across the North Pacific Ocean.^[19] A documentary of the trip was produced by Discovery channel and is due to air in 2012.^[20]

In 2011 Martin set up New Ocean Wave, to arrange a race across the Pacific Ocean from California to Hawaii, to be run in 2014.^[21]

References

External links

• Association of Ocean Rowers

Persondata
Name	Martin, Chris
Alternative names
Short description	Rower
Date of birth	27 January 1981
Place of birth	Chertsey, England
Date of death
Place of death