Victoria Evans - Guinness World Record Holder, Fastest Female to Solo Row the Atlantic, Sports Lawyer and Advocate for Women In Sport

<p>Victoria is an ambassador for UK charity ‘Women in Sport’. Having developed a love of adventure in her late twenties, she progressed from running and cycling to summits of Mont Blanc, Gran Paradiso and Kilimanjaro. </p> <p>In March 2022 she became the fastest female to solo row 2,559 miles across the Atlantic Ocean, finishing in 40 days, 21 hours and 1 minute and knocking 8.5 days off the previous Guinness World Record.</p> <p>Outside of adventure, Victoria is a sports and media lawyer with over ten years of experience practising in both the UK and Switzerland. Having held roles in both European and Olympic federations, as well as commercial media organisations, she focuses on the development and negotiation of sports sponsorship and licensing, media creation and distribution, and sports governance. She uses her legal training to tackle gender equality in sport, securing the first written pregnancy deferral policy of an organised race in February 2022 when Ironman agreed to collaborate, and now focusing heavily on safeguarding.</p> <p> </p> <p>New episodes of the Tough Girl Podcast go live every Tuesday at 7am UK time - Subscribe so you don’t miss out. </p> <p>You can support the Tough Girl mission to increase the amount of female role models in the media - especially in relation to adventure and physical challenge by signing up as a patron. <a href="http://www.patreon.com/toughgirlpodcast" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl= "https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.patreon.com/toughgirlpodcast&source=gmail&ust=1674532335994000&usg=AOvVaw3bAp-1UB4XKrko10tWD3g7">www.patreon.com/<wbr />toughgirlpodcast</a>. Thank you. </p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Show Notes</strong></p> <ul> <li>Who is Victoria </li> <li>Woking as a commercial lawyer</li> <li>Being based in London</li> <li>Growing up in the countryside in Yorkshire</li> <li>Not being interested in sports as a young age</li> <li>Getting into fitness in her mid/late 20s</li> <li>Deciding to become a lawyer</li> <li>Wanting to become financially secure