Ben Thackwray
Ben Thackwray is a record breaking British adventurer, explorer, endurance athlete, ocean rower, mountaineer, cross country skier, ultra distance runner and former semi-pro footballer.Biography
Thackwray was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire and played semi-professional football for Farsley Celtic A.F.C and Guiseley A.F.C.
He is best known for rowing the Atlantic in 2008 and setting the fastest crossing of the Atlantic in a rowing boat from the Canary Islands to Antigua as part of a 5-man crew aboard 'Oyster Shack' and the Guinness World Record for the fastest 1000 miles ever rowed in an ocean rowing boat.
In 2010, he and Ian Couch set the fastest British crossing of Greenland.
In 2011 Ben climbed Mount Everest making him one of only 6 people ever to have rowed an ocean and climbed Mount Everest.
