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2 unusual facts about Indoor rower


Indoor rower

Chabrias, an Athenian admiral of the 4rth century BCE, introduced the first rowing machines as supplemental military training devices.

Former men's Olympic single scull champions Pertti Karppinen and Rob Waddell and five-time Gold Medalist Sir Steven Redgrave have all won world championships or set world records in indoor rowing.


Andy Ripley

In 1998, he became an indoor rowing world record holder in the 50–54 yrs age-group on the Concept2 ergometer (2000m in 6:07.7).

Atlantic Rowing Race

The two crew were also former captains of First and Third Trinity Boat Club who had broken the world record for a "two-man 1,000,000-metres on an rowing machine" by about 4.5 hours only a couple of weeks prior to the race.


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