Gavan Hennigan
🇮🇪 Ireland • Running • Rowing
Ocean Rower and Ultra Runner
"The Ocean is Honest, it always wants to kill you"
Gavan Hennigan is an Irish Adventurer, who became the fastest Irishman to cross the Atlantic rowing solo. He completed several Ultra Marathons, amongst them Winter Ultra Races in the Arctic. He works as a deep sea saturation diver and is our spoken advocate to fight addiction. Gavan currently lives in Chamonix, France.
🏆 Fastest Irishman to row across Atlantic
📣 Advocate to fight addictions
🤿 Is a professional Deep Sea Saturation Diver
Upcoming: Yukon Artic Ultra 436 mile race
Canada 🇨🇦
2024
The Montane Yukon Arctic Ultra will follow the Yukon Quest trail, the trail of the world’s toughest Sled Dog Race.
500km+ Winter Arctic Ultra Marathons
USA 🇺🇸 Canada 🇨🇦
2015 - 2020
Running Ultramarathons over the course of over 500km in the Arctic: (2020) Iditarod Trail Invitational, USA (2016) Yukon Ultra 300 Mile, Canada (2015) Likeys 6633 - 350 Mile, Cananda
Ultraruns
Worldwide 🌍
2016- now
Completing several Ultraruns and Ironman challenges around the globe.
July 2018 - Lakeland 100 Finisher
April 2017 - Quest Glendalough
July 2016 - 50 mile Western Way
July 2016 - completed Ironman Galway
January 2016 - 3rd Place - Art O'Neil Challenge, Dublin
Solo Row across Atlantic
Antigua 🇦🇬
2017
New Irish and course record and 3rd place overall in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge. Solo row of Atlantic of 49 days, 11 hours and 37mins.
Gavan Hennigan Atlantic Ocean Rowing
Solo Crossing Lake Baikal
Russia 🇷🇺
2016
Crossing Lake Baikal in Siberia and ran/walked 700km in 17 days, that's 17 Marathons in 17 days while pulling a 65kg sled with all my supplies with him solo.
Gavan Hennigan Lake Baikal
Summiting Ama Dablam
Nepal 🇳🇵
May 2015
Summiting 6,856m Ama Dablam
Deep Sea Saturation Diver
Worldwide 🌎
2007 - now
Commercial Construction Saturation Diver
Gavan was a guest on our Podcast 'Art of Adventuring'
