Longest gas balloon flight by a female team

The longest duration balloon flight by an all-female team as ratified by the FAI is 69 hr 22 min 9 sec and was achieved by Dr Ann Rich (née Webb) and Dr Janet Folkes (both UK) travelling from Geneva, Switzerland, to Finca La Alberca, Spain, on 5-8 September 2009. The team’s gas balloon, or Charlière, was inflated with hydrogen and had sand bags for ballast. The duo sat in an open wicker basket for 3 days, 1.5 of them over the Mediterranean, while competing in the 53rd edition of the oldest balloon racing event, the Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett, established in 1905.