Oldest person to row the Arctic Ocean Open Waters

The oldest recorded person to row the Arctic Ocean Open Waters is Jeff Willis (UK, b. 25 May 1961), who was 56 years 56 days at the start of a 600-mile (965-km; 521-nautical-mile) row in a team of five from Tromsø to Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway, that lasted 9 days 23 hr 26 min between 20 and 30 July 2017 on board Polar Row.

The definition of "Rows on the Arctic Ocean Open Waters" applies only to pure rowing expeditions across major water basins above the Polar Circle from land to land, excluding any use of sail, paddling on kayaks or canoes, as well as rows around islands, within archipelagos and coastal rows, i.e., within the vicinity of land and with the possibility to get ashore.