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Robin Knox-Johnston

  • Sir William Robert Patrick Knox-Johnston
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Knox-Johnston, Robin
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Date of birth
1939-03-17
Place of birth
Putney

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Sir William Robert Patrick Knox-Johnston CBE RD* (born 17 March 1939) is a British sailor. In 1969, he became the first person to perform a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe. Along with Sir Peter Blake, he won in 1994 the second Jules Verne Trophy, for which they were also given the ISAF World Sailor of the Year Awards. In 2007, at the age of 67, he set a record as the oldest yachtsman to complete a round the world solo voyage in the Velux 5 Oceans Race.

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Sir William Robert Patrick Knox-Johnston, CBE RD is a British sailor. In 1969, he became the first person to perform a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe.

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