30 Facts About Roz Savage

Roz Savage was elected as a Liberal Democrat MP for the new South Cotswolds constituency at the 2024 general election.

Roz Savage holds four Guinness World Records for ocean rowing, including first woman to row solo across three oceans: the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian.

Roz Savage took up rowing at University College, Oxford, and went on to gain two half-blues for representing Oxford University against Cambridge in the 1988 Women's Reserve Boat Race and in the 1989 Women's Lightweight Boat Race.

Roz Savage has a BA in law from Oxford, and a DProf from Middlesex University, where her thesis topic was The Ocean in a Drop: a narrative of reintegration for an era of disintegration.

Roz Savage then spent an additional three months in Peru, travelling solo and researching her first book, Three Peaks in Peru.

Roz Savage's cooking stove failed after 20 days, then her navigation equipment and music player.

Roz Savage maintained her daily weblog until day 80 when her satellite phone failed, leaving only the movement detected by her positional transponder.

Roz Savage is the fifth woman to row solo across the Atlantic from East to West.

Roz Savage began stage one on 12 August 2007 from Crescent City, California, and was rescued 10 days later, approximately 90 miles offshore, by the US Coast Guard when a well-wisher called them out after becoming concerned when she mentioned heavy weather and a head injury in her blog.

Roz Savage was later able to recover her boat "Brocade".

Roz Savage made another attempt on 25 May 2008, launching from Sausalito, California, and arrived in Hawaii on 1 September 2008, becoming the first woman to row solo from California to Hawaii.

Roz Savage completed the crossing from San Francisco to Waikiki in a time of 99 days 8 hours and 55 minutes.

En route to Hawaii, Roz Savage was given an essential resupply of water by the two-man crew of the JUNK raft, on a journey from California to Hawaii.

Roz Savage began stage two on 24 May 2009, with the intention of arriving at the island nation of Tuvalu, 2,580 miles away.

Roz Savage began her third and final stage for the Pacific row on 18 April 2010 with the intention of rowing to the eastern shore of Australia.

Roz Savage was towed back to Australia a fortnight into the 4,000 mile voyage due to a fault with the boat's desalination machine.

Roz Savage completed her Indian Ocean crossing on 4 October 2011, becoming the first woman to solo row the "Big Three", the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.

In March 2012, Roz Savage announced that she would row the North Atlantic as part of the Olympic Atlantic Row team with Andrew Morris.

In 2012, Roz Savage joined Chris Martin and the team at New Ocean Wave as race consultant to the Great Pacific Race from Monterey, California to Honolulu, Hawaii, starting in June 2014.

Roz Savage stood unsuccessfully in May 2023 for the Liberal Democrats in a by-election for the Painswick and Upton ward of Stroud District Council in Gloucestershire.

Roz Savage was selected in September 2023 as the Liberal Democrat candidate for the new South Cotswolds constituency, which covers parts of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire.

Roz Savage won the seat at the 2024 general election, defeating James Gray.

Roz Savage is a United Nations Climate Hero, a trained presenter for the Climate Reality Project, and an Athlete Ambassador for 350.

Roz Savage is on the board of Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation, and a Blue Ambassador for the UK-based BLUE Project.

Roz Savage promotes plastic-free communities as co-patron of the Greener Upon Thames campaign for a plastic bag free Olympics in 2012, and as a Notable Coalition Member of the Plastic Pollution Coalition.

Roz Savage supports the work of the 5 Gyres Institute, and is an Ambassador for Plastic Oceans and MacGillivray Freeman's One World One Ocean project.

Roz Savage's voyages take place under the auspices of the Blue Frontier Campaign.

Roz Savage was appointed MBE in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to environmental awareness and fundraising.

Roz Savage is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a Fellow of the Explorers Club of New York, and has been listed amongst the Top Twenty Great British Adventurers by the Daily Telegraph and the Top Ten Ultimate Adventurers by National Geographic.

Roz Savage was awarded an honorary degree by Bristol University in 2014.