One British and two World 2,000m records have been set recently. Firstly, the last British trials before the Olympics (and possibly the last he'll do) saw Matthew Pinsent set his fastest ever time on the Indoor Rower. His time of 5:42.3 was four and a half seconds quicker than Sir Steve Redgrave's old British 30-39 Hwt record of 5:46.8. Just like this year's British IRC, second place in the trial was taken by James Cracknell in 5:46.5. Perhaps even more impressively, in the Women's trials, Sarah Winkless and Cath Bishop became only the second and third women to ever go under 6:30. Former British and World indoor rowing champion Bishop did 6:29.1, but she was pipped by just three-tenths of a second by Winkless, whose 6:28.8 is a new women's 30-39 Hwt world record.Also getting in on the world record act was Eskild Ebbesen, who broke his own 30-39 Lwt world record with a new time of 6:06.4. Despite having broken the record, Eskild was slightly disappointed as he'd done 6:03.7 in training a couple of weeks beforehand and had his eyes set on Elia Luini's open time of 6:02.6. You can read Ebbesen's account of his attempt, along with video footage, at http://look-at-it.com/ee-worldrecord-uk.asp.Incidentally, all this record-breaking's inspired us to set up a Hall of Fame featuring the fastest ever Men and Women. With any luck (trans: we get our finger's out) we'll be adding more sections to this over the coming months: http://www.therowingcompany.com/racing/fastest.php