Maud Fontenoy (born September 7, 1977) is a French sailor known for her rowings across the Atlantic (2003) and Pacific (2005) oceans. Most recently, she completed a sailing trip around the Antarctic ...

Maud Fontenoy was practically born to the life aquatic. Her parents apparently wanted their daughter to have sea legs before she could crawl, taking her on a sailing trip across the Atlantic when she ...

France's Maud Fontenoy has become the first woman to row solo across the Pacific Ocean from Peru to Polynesia. The 27-year-old was carried ashore and garlanded with flowers after she reached the ...

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Frenchwoman Maud Fontenoy, the first woman to row the Atlantic from west to east, set off on Wednesday night on a bid to become the first person to row 5,000 miles (8,000 kms) from Peru to Tahiti.

A 26-year-old French woman set out in a row boat Wednesday on a 4,900-mile solo voyage to Polynesia, hoping to trace Thor Heyerdahl's epic Pacific crossing six decades ago aboard the balsa raft ...

In 2003, 25-year-old Fontenoy was the first woman to row solo across the North Atlantic, a daunting journey described in Across the Savage Sea. No sooner was she home in France than she was planning ...

Maud Fontenoy became the first woman to row solo across the Pacific Ocean on Saturday when she arrived in French Polynesia at the end of a nearly 8,000-kilometre journey that took 73 days. The 26-year ...

French oarswoman Maud Fontenoy has become the first woman to row the Atlantic from west to east. The 25-year-old arrived in the Spanish port of La Coruna on Thursday from a group of islands off Canada ...