OMEGA ambassadress Ellen MacArthur is no stranger to sailing challenges that push her to personal mental and physical limits: at only 30, she has amassed an outstanding range of sailing achievements. Her remarkable feats include becoming the fastest woman and the youngest person to circumnavigate the earth in a solo yacht race in 2005. One of her other great triumphs was the spectacular second place she won in the 2000 Vendée Globe, the "Everest" of sailing, when she raced solo non-stop around the world. She is one of the youngest people ever to be awarded the DBE (Dame Commander of the British Empire). Her ambition, professionalism and determination to succeed, as well as her innovative thinking and the challenges she tries to reach, are the personal attributes that inspired OMEGA to choose her to join its family of ambassadors in 2002.