Livar Nysted
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Born | 27 September 1970 | (age 53)
Livar Nysted (born 27 September 1970)[1] is an ocean rower and an artist, a painter. He grew up in the small village of Hvannasund in the Faroe Islands. Nysted has achieved five world records in ocean rowing. In 2010 he – together with three other rowers – successfully crossed the North Atlantic Ocean in a rowing boat, breaking a 114-year-old record. In January 2013 he went on another journey, this time the plan was to cross the South Atlantic Ocean with a boat called Avalon. The crew was eight men, they started on 18 January from Puerto de Mogán, Gran Canaria, and their plan was to row to Port Saint Charles, Barbados. They made it all the way to Barbados on 22 February 2013 after rowing for 32 days, 12 hours and 41 minutes. Later the same year Nysted went on another expedition together with two other men. Their journey started in Australia on 9 June 2013. They crossed the Indian Ocean by rowing. They arrived at Mauritius on 5 August 2013 after rowing for 57 days, 15 hours and 49 minutes, which was a new world record. Livar sat three world records after completing this journey: he and the two others were the first crew of three to cross the Indian Ocean, they were also the fastest rowing crew to row this distance, and Livar sat a new world record for having crossed two oceans in a rowing boat within the same year.[2]
Livar Nysted's rowing career
Growing up next to the North Atlantic Ocean in the small fishing village of Hvannasund on the island of Viðoy, which is one of the Northern Islands in the Faroe Islands, the ocean was a natural part of daily life. The national sport of the Faroe Islands is Kappróður, which means boat race in wooden Faroese boats. There are different types of boats and Nysted has tried all of them. He has won several Faroese Championships in these boat races, which are held during the summertime from late May to late July, the final race is the one at the national holiday at Ólavsøka in Tórshavn on 28 July.[citation needed]
Faroese Champion in Ocean Rowing in Fjords and Sounds (Kappróður)
Livar Nysted has won the Faroese Championship in outdoor rowing three times: in 2001, 2004 and 2007.[3] There are six events held around the islands every summer, the winner gets 7 points, number two gets 5 points, number three gets 4 points etc. The boat which gets most points after all six boat races wins the Faroese Championship.
- 2001 Faroese Champion with the boat Nevið Reyða, 8-mannafar, they got 40 points, they won 5 of 6 competitions that year[4] (only men are rowing in this boat size), Klaksvíkar Róðrarfelag (Rowing Club from Klaksvík)
- 2004 Faroese Champion with the boat Sundabáturin, the men's 6-mannafar, Norðdepils-Hvannasunds Róðrarfelag (Rowing Club from Norðdepil and Hvannasund)
- 2007 Faroese Champion with the boat Eysturoyingur, 10-mannafar (only men are rowing in this boat size), Kappróðrarfelagið NSÍ (Rowing Club from Runavík)[5]
His first attempts in long distance ocean rowing in 2003 and 2005
In 2003 Livar Nysted and nine other Faroese men made an attempt to row from the Faroe Islands to the Shetland Islands in a Faroese rowing boat, just like the Faroese ocean rower
La Mondiale in 2009
In 2009 Livar Nysted was one of the crew members of La Mondiale, which made an attempt to cross the
Crossing the North Atlantic in 2010 - Two World Records were broken
Livar Nysted along with captain
Crossing the South Atlantic with Avalon in 2013
Eight men left Puerto de Mogán, Gran Canaria on 17 January 2013 in order to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a rowing boat. Another boat, Titan, left two days before them. The crew of Avalon aimed to reach Port Saint Charles in Barbados in less than 30 days in order to set a new world record. Captain on this trip was Leven Brown, the same man who was captain on Artemis in 2010, when four rowers broke a 114-year-old record. Leven had once before sat a world record on this distance, it was in 2008 with La Mondiale. In 2011 another boat, Sara G., took La Mondiale's record.[11] The crew of Avalon were Leven Brown, Livar Nysted, Tim Spiteri, Calum McNicol, Benno Rawlinson, Peter Fleck, James Cowan, and Jan Øner.[12]
Crossing the Indian Ocean with tRio in 2013
In the summer of 2013 Nysted went on another expedition together with two other men: Maxime Chaya from Lebanon and the British Stuart Kershaw. Their journey started in Perth, Australia on 9 June 2013. They crossed the Indian Ocean by rowing. They arrived at Mauritius on 5 August 2013 after rowing for 57 days, 15 hours and 49 minutes, which was new world record. Livar sat three world records after completing this journey: he and the two others were the first crew of three to cross the Indian Ocean, they were also the fastest rowing crew to row this distance and Livar sat a new world record for having crossed two oceans in a rowing boat within the same year.[13]
References
- ^ "Livar Nysted". OceanRowing.com. Ocean Rowing Society. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- ^ Aktuelt.fo, Prógvini hjá Livari komin fram (in Faroese)
- ^ OceanRowEvents.com, Artemis Ocean Rowing, THE ARTEMIS NORTH ATLANTIC CHALLENGE 2010, The Team. Archived 20 March 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Drekin.fo (Havnar Róðrarfelag, Tórshavn Rowing Clulb), the results for 8-mannafør in 2001, Ólavsøka (Støðan í FM)
- ^ Video with photo slide show which tells about Livar Nysted's rowing history.
- ^ Trip.fo, about the trip to the Shetland Islands in 2005.
- ^ Newspaper Article - Daily Record - Jan 22 2009 - Journalist Paul O'Hare [1]
- ^ The Daily Record, Jul 17 2010 - journalist Andrew Gerard
- ^ BBC News - 31 July 2010
- ^ Newspaper Article - Hereford Times - Friday 6 August 2010 By Paul Ferguson [2]
- ^ Trip.fo Livar Nysted's website about his trips across the Atlantic Ocean.
- ^ Oceanrowevents.com Archived 14 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Aktuelt.fo, Prógvini hjá Livari komin fram (in Faroese)