Chabrias, an Athenian admiral of the 4rth century BCE, introduced the first rowing machines as supplemental military training devices.
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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.
2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships | Major Indoor Soccer League | Gerhard Müller (rower) | Major Indoor Soccer League (2001–2008) | 1999 IAAF World Indoor Championships | Singapore Indoor Stadium | Indoor Football League | NCAA Women's Indoor Track and Field Championship | Professional Indoor Football League | indoor American football | Continental Indoor Football League | Asian Indoor Games | Alan Campbell (rower) | 2009 Asian Indoor Games | 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 60 metres | U.S. Pro Indoor | National Indoor Football League | National Indoor Arena | Major Indoor Soccer League (current) | Major Indoor Soccer League (2008–) | Major Indoor Soccer League (1978–1992) | Indoor Cricket | Indoor air quality | IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics | European Athletics Indoor Championships | Eastern Indoor Soccer League | American Indoor Soccer League | 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's triple jump | 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 400 metres | 1990 Belgian Indoor Championships |
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).
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.