Olly Hicks

Endurance athlete and adventurer, Olly Hicks is a highly regarded motivational speaker who has acquired several unique world records throughout his career as an endurance athlete. Starting as just a young boy playing in boats to becoming one of Britain's foremost young adventurers who hasspent an impressive 2. 5% of his life at sea rowing. Olly makes for a motivational speaker that's hard to be topped with his array of amazing stories from his expeditions around the world.

At the young age of twenty-three, he became the first person to row from America to England solo this expedition also put him as the youngest person to row any ocean solo. Upon return from his fearless adventure he was welcomed by Prince William of Wales and Sir Richard Branson who awaited him at Falmouth Harbour. What Olly had achieved on his 124 day voyage was so exceptional it was made into a documentary called Virgin Row which went on to win first prize in the Moscow Film Festival. His efforts also saw himawarded with the Peter Bird Trophy for Tenacity and Enduranceat the Dijon Adventure Film Festival.

Amongst many other expeditions he's accomplished, a career highlight is when he rowed for ninety six days alone across the Tasman Sea from Tasmania to New Zealand. This is a notoriously wild southern ocean and Olly became the first person to ever do it. Amongst several extreme kayak voyages including a 200 mile crossing from the Shetland Islands to Norway he also has produced two award-winning documentaries.