Eugenia Méndez, Ana Lucía Valencia, Andrea Gutiérrez, and Lucila Muriel became the first Mexican and Latin American women’s team to row across the Atlantic Ocean.
No engine. Do not support boat. Just muscle, rhythm, and mental toughness—45 days at sea, nearly 4,800 kilometers, from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean.
They lived on the boat. Ate, slept, trained, and survived there. Two-hour rowing shifts, day and night, through towering waves, brutal winds, exhaustion, and isolation. The ocean was both their road and their enemy.
They finished in 45 days, 1 hour, and 35 minutes, a remarkable time under some of the harshest ocean conditions on the planet.
This wasn’t just a race—it was endurance in its rawest form.
Their crossing set a record in open water and marked a milestone for women in extreme sports across Latin America. More than a finish line, it sent a message: Mexican women belong in the hardest spaces on Earth.
History wasn’t given to them.
They rowed their way into it.
Source: mexicanproblems
