Merched y Môr: First all-Wales female rowing team aim to cross Atlantic

First all-Wales female rowing team to cross Atlantic in aid of local charities

A four-woman team from Wales – Denise Leonard, Helen Heaton, Heledd Williams, and Liz Collyer – will become the first all-female Welsh crew to compete in the World’s Toughest Row – Atlantic Challenge, a 3,000-mile unaided race across the Atlantic Ocean. The Merched y Môr team, whose name fittingly means ‘Women of the Sea’ in Welsh, will row from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean, enduring up to 60 days of continuous rowing in shifts, navigatin…

Merched y Môr: First all-Wales female rowing team aim to cross Atlantic

A four-woman team from Wales – Denise Leonard, Helen Heaton, Heledd Williams, and Liz Collyer – will become the first all-female Welsh crew to compete in the World’s Toughest Row – Atlantic Challenge, a 3,000-mile unaided race across the Atlantic Ocean. The Merched y Môr team, (all friends from Carmarthenshire) whose name fittingly means ‘Women […]

First All-Wales Female Rowing Team to Cross Atlantic in Aid of Local Charities

A four-woman team from Wales – Denise Leonard, Helen Heaton, Heledd Williams, and Liz Collyer – will become the first all-female Welsh crew to compete in the World’s Toughest Row – Atlantic Challenge, a 3,000-mile unaided race across the Atlantic Ocean. The Merched y Môr team, whose name fittingly means ‘Women of the Sea’ in Welsh, will row from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean, enduring up to 60 days of continuous rowing in shifts, navigatin…

Pembrokeshire women to row Atlantic for charity

A four-woman team from Pembrokeshire - Denise Leonard, Helen Heaton, Heledd Williams, and Liz Collyer - will become the first all-female Welsh crew to compete in the World’s Toughest Row - Atlantic Challenge, a 3,000-mile unaided race across the Atlantic Ocean.