Fastest Mediterranean row from Barcelona to Ibiza

What to remember

In July 2019, Team Monex Europe rowed across the Balearic Sea from Barcelona to Ibiza in 54 hours and 30 minutes, or 2 days, 6 hours and 30 minutes. It is the fastest time recorded on this Mediterranean route, set during a race organised by an awareness campaign.

Ocean rowing is the sport of crossing oceans under oar power, in boats most often built for singles, doubles or fours, though some can carry as many as fourteen rowers.

Records in the sport are adjudicated by the Ocean Rowing Society International, which separates historic rows, completed up to 1981 with very limited modern technology, from the modern-day rows that followed. The Barcelona to Ibiza race belongs to the modern era.