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Adventures of Angela Madsen
RowofLife, Big Blue TransAtlantic Row, California to Hawaii SOLO Row, Indian Ocean 8, SeaGals-Row Around Great Britain, TransPac Rowing, California Adaptive Rowing Programs, US Rowing, US Track and Field, Paralympics & Public Speaking
March 30-April 1
Abilities Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center
Video of Angela and Gayle Anderson of KTLA Channel 5 News in Los Angeles, CA. We Love Morning News!
Angela will be participating in several Track and Field Events in Preparation for the 2012 Paralympics in London
Angela is currently ranked #2 in the World for Shot Put and Javelin in her class F56
Hawaii Trip
Angela is going to Hawaii in April 2012 to work on logistics for her California to Hawaii Solo Row in May 2013.
She is currently working on purchasing a solo Ocean Rowing Boat "The Spirit of Orlando". The row is in honor of her friend and fellow ocean rower, Orlando Roberts, who we lost last year and Veteran's causes.
She will launch from Long Beach, with no motor and no sail, around Memorial Day 2013 and row nonstop and unsupported to Hawaii. She should arrive in Hawaii 80-100 days later. She will be inviting others to join her in their own boats creating a fleet of Pacific Ocean Rowers. Non-Rowers can join Debbie in Hawaii for cocktail sipping & waiting for rowers to arrive.
Angela will also be found surfing in Hawaii. Surfing is her 1st love!
Angela Madsen
Angela has worked with Mark McAndrew at Concept 2 to obtain 4 ergs (Concept 2 Model E Indoor Rowers) that she will take to events to further the sport of Indoor Adaptive Rowing. Angela is hoping to get more VA's involved in the sport. When they are not on the road, the ergs will be Angela's new erg studio at her house. Please contact her if you are interested in having the ergs visit your event or would like to visit the ergs in the erg studio. We have the Concept 2 Race software so we will be able to actually RACE the ergs.
Angela's New Adaptive Rowing Seat
The Madd Sinn
for the Concept 2 Rowers
Manufactured by Colours Wheelchairs
RowofLife began when Angela Madsen, a paraplegic, from Long Beach, CA USA, and Franck Festor, a single below the knee amputee, from Metz, France, decided to ROW across the Atlantic Ocean in the Woodvale Challenge-2007 Atlantic Rowing Race. On Feb. 7, 2008, after 66 days at sea, they completed that challenge. There were 22 boats in the race (4 persons, pairs, and singles) RowofLife came in 8th in the pairs class and 10th overall.
On June 25, 2009 the Indian Ocean 8 Crew of Angela Madsen, Doug Tumminello, Helen Taylor, Bernard Fisset, Paul Cannon, Brian Flick, Simon Chalk and Ian Couch, completed their ROW across the Indian Ocean in the boat Audeamus after 58 days at sea. They set the World Record for the fastest Indian Ocean Crossing by Oar, Helen and Angela were the first women to row across the Indian Ocean. Angela became the first disabled person to row across the Indian Ocean and to row across two oceans (Indian 2009 & Atlantic 2007). The Pirate Row Crew is now in the Guinness Book of World Records.
On June 1, 2010, Angela joined a crew of 4 women to row around Great Britain. It was the Girls against the Boy (on Orca) until the Boys dropped out of the race. The SeaGals went on the win the Great Britain Row 2010 and are in the Guinness Book of World Records.
In Jan. 2011 Angela skippered a crew of 16 on the first ocean catamaran, "Big Blue," across the Atlantic Ocean from Morocco to Barbados. www.BigBlueRow.com
Angela is the first woman and disabled person to row the Atlantic Ocean twice, Indian Ocean and circumnavigate Great Britain.
Angela is now participating in the Javelin and Shot Put. She is hoping to make the US Track and Field Team and ultimately participate in the London Paralympics 2012. Her first attempts at the field events at the Desert Challenge Games in Mesa, AZ and the Dixie Games in Tampa, FL resulting in her breaking the Americas Records in her events. She competed in the the Para PanAmerican Games in Guadalajara Mexico in November 2011and received a Silver Medal in the Shot Put and broke America's Records. She is currently ranked number 2 in the World for both Shot Put and Javelin in her classification.
In September 2012, Angela hopes to compete in Track and Field at the Paralympics in London. She would like to at a Paralympic Field Medal to her 4 World Championship Rowing Gold Medals.
In Spring 2013, Angela is working on a TransPac Solo Ocean Row from California to Hawaii. Other crews will be able to participate. She would like to get together some different military crews, both able and alternatively abled, to row. The row is open to crews from around the world. www.TransPacRowing.com
Memorial Day 2013--Angela is plans to Row Solo from Long Beach to Honolulu to bring attention to Veteran's causes.
