Ultra-Distance World Records

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Million Meter Row

Individual Man 30-39 Nigel Gower 2003 128 hours, 38 min, 19.0 sec
Individual Man 20-29 Dave Holby October 7, 2009 227 hours, 43 minutes
Large Team Dartmouth Rowing Club,
Hanover, New Hampshire, USA		 November 1995
90 rowers		 53hrs, 22 min, 40sec
Small Team Topp-Vit-Club, Kronach, Germany March 1998 10 men 59 hrs 37 min 13.7 sec
Two Man Dan Darley and Rich Dewire 2005 72 hrs, 17 min, 5 secs
High School 4-erg Million* St. Joseph's College Ipswich, Great Britain March 2008 15 hrs, 10 min, 7.1 sec
*See the Marathon Rowing Rules and Regulations page for details on this protocol
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24 Hour Row

Individual Heavyweight Woman 19 & under Lottie Galliano, Connecticut, USA July 18–19, 2009 140,788 meters
Individual Heavyweight Woman 20-29 Amanda Miracle, Maryland, USA January 2004 170,425 meters
Individual Lightweight Woman 20-29 Allison McNickle, Maryland, USA January 2004 170,000 meters
Individual Heavyweight Woman 30-39 J. D. Gibbard, Victoria, BC, Canada January 2005 241,749 meters
Individual Heavyweight Woman 40-49 Kathleen Carroll December 2000 240,459 meters
Individual Heavyweight Woman 50-59 Georgina Price, London, England Oct 12, 2009 212,309 meters
Individual Lightweight Woman 60-69 Joan Joesting-Mahoney, Florida, USA January 5-6, 2005 101,775 meters
Individual Lightweight Woman 70-79 Joan Joesting-Mahoney, Florida, USA January 3-4, 2008 103,099 meters
Individual Heavyweight Man 19 & Under Brock Turner, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA February 20–21, 2010 213,061 meters
Individual Lightweight Man 19 & Under Zach Boven, Georgia, USA March 20, 2009 225,139 meters
Individual Heavyweight Man 20-29 Stefan Verhoeven, Kleve, Germany November 22, 2009 263,014 meters
Individual Lightweight Man 20-29 William Japp, Northampton Rowing Club, Great Britain
Northampton Chronicle article		 March 12, 2009 240,643 meters
Individual Heavyweight Man 30-39 Master-at-Arms David Harris, London, England November 18, 2001 307,683 meters
Individual Lightweight Man 30-39 Tim Donovan, Great Britain February 1999 302,008 meters
Individual Heavyweight Man 40-49 Richard Curtis, USA February 28-29, 1988 285,840 meters
Individual Lightweight Man 40-49 Pentti Soini, Finland April 28, 2007 271,157 meters
Individual Heavyweight Man 50-59 Graeme Taylor, Aramoho, New Zealand August 21, 2009 250,304 meters
Individual Lightweight Man 50-59 Wolfdietrich Jacobs, Germany March 23, 2008 234,242 meters
Individual Lightweight Man 60-69 Joe Keating, London, Great Britain October 10, 2009 252,028 meters
Tandem Women Heavyweight Kate Horam & Juliet Short, Cornwall, Great Britain October 23-24, 2009 266,220 meters
Tandem Men Simon Johns and Sam De Kooker, Guernsey, Channel Islands, Great Britain November 2008 335,300 meters
Tandem Men Heavyweight 20-29 David Holby & James Burrows, Basingstoke, Great Britain July 4-5, 2009 312,726 meters
Tandem Men Heavyweight 40-49 Bixio Loidi & Joakin Gozategi, Orio, Spain September 2009 321,942 meters
Tandem Mixed Yuri Contreras and Laura Gonzalez, Mexico January 23–34, 2010 288,550 meters
Large Team, Women Dartmouth Womens Crew, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA January 1998 48 women 413,549 meters
Large Team, Men Dartmouth Mens Crew, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA January 1998 71 men 497,972 meters
Large Team, Mixed Boston University Boston, Massachusetts, USA March 1, 1997 26 men, 14 women 480,197 meters
Large Team, Mixed, Juniors
(aged 19 and younger)		 St. Christopher Catholic Secondary School, Ontario, Canada

 December 2007
38 rowers		 439,931 meters
Large Team, Boys, Juniors
(aged 19 and younger)		 St. Joseph's College, Ipswich, England, Great Britain

 December 15-16, 2009
60 rowers		 462,381 meters
Large Team, Girls, Juniors
(aged 19 and younger)		 Marin Rowing Association, California, USA

 February 2007
58 rowers		 384,650 meters
Small Team, Women Lyngby Dameroklub, Lyngby, Denmark February 2000 10 women 367,872 meters
Small Team, Women, Juniors
(age 19 and younger)		 St. Margaret's College, Christchurch, New Zealand September 20-21, 2008 315,300 meters
Small Team, Men Star Club, Bedford, Great Britain January 19-20,2008
10 men		 477,455 meters
Small Team, Men, Juniors
(age 19 and younger)		 Augusta Junior Rowing Club, Augusta, Georgia, USA January 2007 366,565 meters
Small Team, Mixed Topp-Vit-Club, Kronach, Germany June 2001; 6 men, 3 women 426,635 meters
Small Team, Mixed, Juniors Monmouth Comprehensive School, South Wales, Great Britain March 3-4, 2006; 7 male, 3 female 346,619 meters

24 Hour Virtual Internet Relay Row

*See the 24 Hour Relay Rules page for details on this protocol
Small Team, Men

Dutch RowPro Rowers—a virtual team of 8 rowers
more info on this row

 June 2005 357,529 meters
Large Team, Men Sub7 IRC—19 rowers
more info on this row		 October 4, 2009 373,317 meters
Large Team, Mixed RowPro Rowers—14 rowers from five different countries and time zones
more info on this row		 April 2004 343,286 meters
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Longest Continual Row

Team Leander Rowing Club, Clarendon High School for Girls Rowing Club & Selborne College Rowing Club, East London, South Africa, 139 rowers Nov 30, 2009–Jan 13, 2010 44 days, 3 hours and 15 minutes non-stop (13,905,657 meters)
Team, Small Mens Power Ten Rowing, Inc., Orlando, Florida, USA
  Brian Laughridge, Chris Eicher, Ricky Van Warner, Michael Horvath, Ryan Burke, Kyle Henry, Kevin Moran, Charlie Gorden and Jacob Wood		 July 9–July 19, 2008 240 hours non-stop, 10 men, 3,027,282 meters
Individual Men 13-18 Lightweight James Tucker Risman, Connecticut, USA July 18–19, 2009 27 hours
Individual Men 13-18 Heavyweight Brock Turner, Oklahoma, USA February 20–21, 2010 15 hours
Individual Men 19-29 Lightweight David Holby, Basingstoke, Great Britain November 7-8, 2009 30 hours
Individual Men 30-39 Heavyweight  James Burrows, Basingstoke, Great Britain November 7-8, 2009 26 hours
Individual Men 40-49 Heavyweight  Master-at-Arms David Harris, Plymouth, Devon, Great Britain August 2006 73 hours
Individual Woman Joan Joesting-Mahoney, Florida, USA, aged 67 January 5–6, 2005 30 hours
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100,000 Meter Row

Large Team, Men Dartmouth Mens Crew, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA March 2001 4:22:39.4
Large Team, Men, aged 50+ AO BUC Musculation, France June 2007 6:22:08
Large Team, Men, Juniors Salisbury School, Salisbury, Connecticut, USA January 24, 2010 4:42:32.7
Large Team, Women Dartmouth Womens Crew, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA March 2001 5:30:01.0
Large Team, Women, Juniors Los Gatos Rowing Club, California, USA December 13, 2009 5:54:19.4
Large Team, Mixed Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA March 2001 4:58:26.2
Large Team, Mixed, Juniors Sarasota Crew, Sarasota, Florida, USA November 13, 2009 5:33:00.0
Small Team, Men MAD Team Indoor Rowing Club, Great Britain January 2004 4:12:46.7
Small Team, Men, Juniors Northampton Rowing Club, Great Britain July 12, 2008 4:37:55.0
Small Team, Men, Lightweight Riptide Rowers, Brighton, Great Britain January 2007 4:39:01.0
Small Team, Men, Junior Lightweights Sydney Boys High School, Sydney, Australia December 18, 2009 5:42:56.1
Small Team, Women Assoluti Femminile, Italy June 2, 2008 5:44:45.6
Small Team, Mixed MAD Team IRC April 19, 2008 4:44:57.1
Small Team, Mixed, Lightweight 100km Italian Team, Italy June 21, 2009 5:17:23.9
Small Team, Mixed, Juniors Central Crew Club, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA January 2, 2010 7:06:42.2
Small Team, Mixed, Junior Lightweights Rowing Club Mladost, Zagreb, Croatia December 2, 2007 6:38:35.0
Tandem Men Olaf Tufte and Nils Torolv Simonsen, Horten and Oslo, Norway March 2004 5:39:24.5
Tandem Men Heavyweight 19 & under Tommy Lindeman & Vince Granese, St. Augustine Prep, New Jersey, USA February 20, 2010 6:21:22.5
Tandem Men Lightweight 19 & under Ross Pedersen and Nate Efron, Fairport, New York, USA November 2008 6:58:48.1
Tandem Men Heavyweight 20-29 Welles Mattson & Shane Kenney, Union Boat Club, Concord, Massachusetts, USA June 27, 2009 6:26:59.1
Tandem Men Lightweight 20-29 Richie Castle and Brett Sharp, University of Tennessee, USA February 2008 6:48:18.8
Tandem Men Lightweight 40-49 Mauro Martelli and Claudio Cecconi, Rome, Italy December 19, 2009 6:15:08.8
Tandem Men Heavyweight 40-49 Bruno LaPlaca and Claudio Varamo, Rome, Italy November 16, 2008 5:58:48.9
Tandem Men Heavyweight 60-69 Gerry Keating and Joe Keating, Farnborough, Great Britain May 31, 2009 6:52:13.5
Tandem Women Heavyweight 19 & under Maggie Bowman-Jones and Deanna Wong, Pacific Rowing Club, San Francisco, California, USA
View local news KRON-4 interview.		 December 19, 2009 7:17:55.9
Tandem Women Lightweight 19 & under Juli Michelson & Meredith Lee, Rochester Rowing Club, Minnesota, USA June 2005 7:55:40
Tandem Women Masters Christina Nugent-Lee, Kelly Sapsford, Virgin Active Gym, Manchester, Great Britain April 2007 7:07:00.5
Tandem Women Seniors Kathleen Carroll, Angela Merson, Club One, San Francisco, California, USA 1999 7:25:13
Tandem Mixed Andrea Carbone and Maria Teresa Bizzarri, Rome, Italy November 16, 2008 6:33:20.7
Tandem Mixed Lightweight Andrea Carbone and Francesca Farabbi, Italy February 2009 6:41:13.4
Individual Men Heavyweight 19 & under Jason Armstrong, CIVIC, Carmel Valley, California, USA November 8, 2009 6:46:00.7
Individual Men Lightweight 19 & under David Hosler, Piedmont, California, USA
 December 20, 2009 7:18:08
Individual Men 20-29 Heavyweight Jesper Jensen, DEN February 20, 2010 6:15:45.2
Individual Men 20-29 Lightweight Vincent Brunning, Great Britain (75kg) August 13, 2009 6:44:15.3
Individual Men 30-39 Heavyweight Glen Goodman, Horsham, Great Britain 1998 6:22:56
Individual Men 30-39 Lightweight Hywel Davies, Warwickshire, GBR February 7, 2010 6:37:56.9
Individual Men 40-49 Heavyweight Ari Vihavainen, Finnish Marathon Championships, Finland April 28, 2007 6:41:18.1
Individual Men 40-49 Lightweight Pentti Soini, Helsinki, Finland April 2004 6:52:24.3
Individual Men 50-59 Heavyweight Antti Varis, Finland April 25, 2009 6:17:44.4
Individual Men 50-59 Lightweight Taisto Ylonen, Helsinki, Finland April 2004 7:12:27.7
Individual Men 60-69 Heavyweight TJ Oesterling, Hawaii, USA June 21, 2009 6:51:38.7
Individual Men 60-69 Lightweight Joe Keating, Great Britain March 28, 2009 7:19:35.8
Individual Men 70-79 Heavyweight Stan Brierly, New Zealand July 2003 9:55:29.3
Individual Women Lightweight 19 & under Bridget Dean, Rochester, Minnesota, USA June 2005 10:04:57
Individual Women Heavyweight 19 & under Erin Monique-Shelton, New Zealand July 30, 2006 7:37:35.9
Individual Women 20-29 Lightweight Katerina Nachazelova, Czech Republic March 22, 2009 8:27:17.5
Individual Women 20-29 Heavyweight Anna Longdill, New Zealand July 2003 7:57:23.3
Individual Women 30-39 Heavyweight Jen Howse, Stockton-on-Tees, Great Britain December 26, 2009 7:27:26.4
Individual Women 40-49 Heavyweight J.D. Gibbard, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada March 15, 2009 7:48:58.6
Individual Women 50-59 Lightweight Ann Jones-Weinstock, Middlebury, Vermont, USA October 31, 2009 9:33:29.0
Individual Women 50-59 Heavyweight Anna Bailey, Worcester, Great Britain September 16, 2006 7:43:58.9
Individual Women 60-69 Lightweight Joan Joesting-Mahoney, Florida, USA, age 64 2002 16:40:31
Individual Women 60-69 Heavyweight Maligi Mackay, Auckland, New Zealand October 8, 2009 12:28:14.0
Individual Women 70-79 Lightweight Joan Joesting-Mahoney, Florida, USA, age 70 2008 23:32:00.0