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Ben Thackwray (born 13 May 1980 in Leeds, UK) 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, England], and played 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 (37 days) from the Canary Islands (San Sebastián de La Gomera, Spain) 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 (also a crew member on Oyster Shack) 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ben Thackwray」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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