Mark Pollock
Irish athlete · Ireland · On the map · Athletes · Born 1976 · age 50
Mark Pollock is an international motivational speaker, explorer, and author from Ireland who became the first blind man to race to the South Pole.
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As part of a three-man team called South Pole Flag, alongside Simon O'Donnell and Inge Solheim, he took 43 days in January 2009 to complete the Amundsen Omega 3 South Pole Race. They finished fifth overall from the six teams that finished the race, but Pollock asserted his disability had slowed him down. He had participated against nine other teams, including that of BBC personality Ben Fogle and the Olympic gold medallist James Cracknell, a friend of Pollock. Pollock has won bronze and silver medals at the 2002 Commonwealth Rowing Championships in Nottingham, England and has also written a book titled Making It Happen. Around 2020, he was involved in the creation of Collaborative Cures.
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