Marathon rowing effort smashes Atlantic record
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A four-man team has smashed a 114-year-old record for rowing across the Atlantic.
The rowers - Leven Brown, Ray Carroll, Don Lennox and Livar Nysted - arrived in Britain 43 days and 21 hours after leaving New York.
The previous record was set by two Norwegian fishermen in 1896.
The president of the Ocean Rowing Society, Kenneth Crutchlow, has praised the record holders.
"It's a great recognition of a wonderful effort," he said.
"As they themselves said they had to have the favour of the weather.
"If you're lucky as they admit they were, they did have that weather window, but that doesn't take away from the effort of course.
"You still have to row your heart out and keep to it and stay with it, which they did."
- BBC
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