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First Olympic rowing gold medallist to row an ocean

First Olympic rowing gold medallist to row an ocean
Who
James Cracknell
What
First
Where
Antigua and Barbuda
When
19 January 2006

The first Olympic rowing gold medallist to row an ocean was James Cracknell (UK), Olympic gold medallist for the fastest coxless four in Sydney (2000, with Matthew Pinsent, Tim Foster, Steve Redgrave) and Athens (2004, with Matthew Pinsent, Steve Williams, Ed Coode), and ocean rower, in tandem with Ben Fogle, on the Atlantic east-to-west route from San Sebastian, La Gomera, Spain, to Antigua, between 30 November 2005 and 19 January 2006.