Janice Meek
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Janice "Jan" Meek FRGS (formerly Cooper and Byles, born 1944) is a British adventurer and ocean rower. In 1997, she took part in the first Atlantic Rowing Race, the Port St. Charles Barbados Atlantic Rowing Race.{{Cite web |url=http://www.challengebusiness.com/events/summary/1997-atlantic-rowing.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021104225348/http://www.challengebusiness.com/events/summary/1997-atlantic-rowing.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 November 2002 |title=Ocean Rowing Summary: Port St Charles, Barbados, Atlantic Rowing Race 1997 |website=www.challengebusiness.com |access-date=2002-11-04 |df=dmy-all}} Meek successfully crossed the Atlantic Ocean unsupported in a {{convert|23|ft|m|adj=on}} wooden rowing boat in 101 days with her son, Daniel Byles. She currently holds four Guinness World Records.
Career
Meek has owned and run several restaurants, including De Courceys in South Wales, and has been a wedding organiser and events manager.{{Cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/listings/food/pages/food_restaurants_decourceys.shtml |title=BBC - South East Wales Food - De Courceys in Pentyrch near Cardiff |date=2007-10-11 |access-date=2016-05-12 |url-status=unfit |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011231948/http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/listings/food/pages/food_restaurants_decourceys.shtml |archivedate=11 October 2007}}
Adventures and expeditions
=Atlantic Rowing Race (1997)=
Meek and her son, Daniel, participated in the first ocean rowing race and rowed {{convert|3044|nmi|km}} from Tenerife to Barbados. In rowing across the Atlantic, the pair achieved two Guinness World Records: they became the first mother and son team to row any ocean,{{cite web |date=18 September 2006 |title=Presentation of the Guinness World Records Certificates to Oceanrowers |url=http://www.oceanrowing.com/Guinness_World_Records/September18/11a.htm |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928024453/http://www.oceanrowing.com/Guinness_World_Records/September18/11a.htm |archivedate=28 September 2011 |accessdate=2 January 2013 |publisher=Ocean Rowing Society}} and at 53, Meek became the oldest person at the time to row across any ocean.{{Cite web |url=http://www.challengebusiness.com/events/summary/1997-atlantic-rowing.htm |title=Ocean Rowing Summary: Port St Charles, Barbados Atlantic Rowing Race 1997 |access-date=29 September 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070203020814/http://www.challengebusiness.com/events/summary/1997-atlantic-rowing.htm |archive-date=3 February 2007 |url-status=dead}} In 2005 this record would be broken by Pavel Rezvoy (66).{{Cite web |url=http://www.oceanrowing.com/statistics/age_youngest_oldest.htm |title=The youngest and oldest oceanrowers |website=www.oceanrowing.com |access-date=2016-05-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111110121657/http://www.oceanrowing.com/statistics/age_youngest_oldest.htm |archivedate=10 November 2011}}
In 2006, Meek and her son were awarded a Guinness World Record certificate for being the first mother and son team to row any ocean in 1997 and 1998.
In 2007, she and her son walked and skied {{convert|350|mi|km}} from Resolute, Nunavut to the Magnetic North Pole in 20 days and 5 hours.{{cite web |title=Polar Race 2007 - the race to the Magnetic North Pole |url=http://polarrace.com/2007/news/ |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070501201607/http://polarrace.com/2007/news/ |archivedate=1 May 2007 |accessdate=2007-05-11}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.janicemeek.com Jan Meek's website]
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Category:20th-century British explorers
Category:British female rowers