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Red Bull
“I want every woman and girl to benefit from the effects of sport”
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Sky Sports
“Victoria Evans hopes record solo Atlantic row proves female resilience.”
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BBC Sport
“Evans rowed 2,559 nautical miles (4,740km) in a world record time of 40 days and 19 hours, beating the previous record of 49 days and seven hours set by fellow Briton Kiko Matthews in 2018.”
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CNN
“Victoria Evans breaks world record for fastest female solo row across the Atlantic Ocean after 'intense' trip.”
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LATEST RELEASES
Tough Girl Podcast
“Interview with Victoria Evans - Guinness World Record Holder, Fastest Female to Solo Row the Atlantic, Sports Lawyer and Advocate for Women In Sport”.
Women In Sport Podcast
“Harnessing the power of self-belief: How Victoria Evans became the fastest female to solo row the Atlantic”.
BBC Radio London - The Women’s Sport Show
Interview by Ebony Rainford-Brent (starts from 5 mins 20 seconds in).
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
“How a British lawyer became the fastest woman to row alone across the Atlantic Ocean.”
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South China Morning Post
“Solo women’s Atlantic rowing world record set by self reliant Briton facing ‘intense’ weather.”
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Row360
British sports-lawyer Victoria Evans, 35, sets new Atlantic ocean-rowing record. Her unaided crossing took her 40 days and 19 hours, which makes Evans the fastest female to row solo across the Atlantic.
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ITV News
“40 days and 2,500 miles: Meet the fastest woman ever to row across the Atlantic ocean on her own.”
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Yorkshire Post
Meet the 35-year-old woman from Huddersfield who smashed the world record for a solo Atlantic row
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Podcast: Chatting to a Friend (Part 1)
“At the time of the episode release Victoria Evans is about to depart in February to become the 8th British woman to solo row the Atlantic Ocean. We talk about her awakening into sport, equality for women in sport, how the culture needs to change, why she decided to do this row and how she got into sport relatively late in life and how much benefit she has gained from it."
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SunGod
“At SunGod we’ve always been about disrupting the status quo and challenging norms to build something better. And, as women’s history month draws to a close, we’re celebrating 5 incredible SunGod athletes who are doing exactly this and whose work inspires us every day”.
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BBC Sport
"We are all living in a truly unique time and sometimes life gets in the way of our perfectly made plans. The path to an event of this size was always going to be winding, what's key is the ability to adapt to changing circumstances."
A follow up to the original interview by Katie Falkingham, covering postponement and the #350Challenge.
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Red Bulletin
“Victoria recently sat down with Red Bull writer Ruth McLeod to discuss the row and what motivated her to consider the challenge in the first place. Got five minutes? Then have a read!”
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Telegraph Women’s Sport
“I don’t think there could have been more curveballs thrown at this than there have been,” she says. “But I’m all in now. The whole process has been a steady acceptance of increasing risk.”
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Women’s Health
International Women's Day 2021: 9 Changemakers on the Challenges They Chose to Take On
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Sports Gazette
“You just need to keep moving forward and it is all achievable, it’s all there for the taking if you’re looking for it.”
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Sky Sports - #RiseWithUs
Full version of the Extraordinary Women interview
Chelsea FC Foundation - ‘Inspire To Empower’
Keynote at Stamford Bridge to 130 London schoolgirls talking all things Atlantic row, building a career in the sports industry and using sport as a vehicle to overcome adversity.
The theme of the event was “Inspire to Empower”, and built on the fantastic work of the Chelsea Foundation.
BBC Radio London - The Women’s Sport Show
Convincing Anita Jones and Miriam Walker-Khan that sharks and exhaustion are surmountable!
TalkSPORT
Chatting all things Sea Change with TalkSPORT’s Paul Ross
BBC SPORT
This was someone who, until her mid-twenties, had avoided sport at all costs. Now 32, she is aiming to break the world record for the fastest female solo crossing while raising £50,000 for the Women In Sport charity.”
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BBC News Channel
Live on BBC News speaking to Ben Croucher