Clarksons' brokers HIIT the jackpot at the company’s annual charity day, raising £80,000 ($104,000) for good causes.
The figure was double the sum raised in 2017, with this year’s event attracting more than 200 participants to circuit training-style competition.
Clarksons devised the event in partnership with London fitness company F45.
Teams completed six exercises over six minutes, with 45 seconds of workout time and a 15-second breather while moving to the next station.
In the group-wide fitness challenge, Adam Bonwick, a new arrival at the company’s LNG team in London and a taekwondo world champion, won the overall award.
The Londonsale-and-purchase department claimed first prize as the most successful fundraisers, amassing more than £21,000 for their chosen charity, Teens Unite Fighting Cancer.
Alastair Lewis, Anthony Rowan, Ben Edwards, Fred Engelbach, Harry vere Nicoll, Johnny Woodman, Jonathan Auckland, Matthew Tallon, Nikos Katsaras, Phil Harding, Ross Melville, Simon Jones, Tom Chapman, Will Stephens, Tim Barraclough and Leo Askaroff made up the Team S&P45'ers.
Their colleagues from various departments in Norway proved to be the fittest team. Pals 4 Life was made up of Eirik Froysaker, Magnus Fischer, Espen Lysdahl, Gunnar Kapstad, Magnus Blikstad, Mattis Roisland, Halvdan Kielland and Karoline Thorvildsen. They were sweating it out to raise money for the ALS Association.
The company’s selected charity, Carney’s Community, was also at the event and offered boxing sessions throughout the afternoon. Special guest Alderman Neil Redcliffe, who visited with his wife, Emma, was among those to pull on the gloves.
Clarksons said the event was a great success. “Not only was it the highest participated charity event we have held on record but we also raised the highest amount we have ever raised as a company in one day," it said.
“This would not have been possible without the generosity and support from so many people — Clarksons would like to say thank you for all the support from our friends within shipping.”
The Clarksons Charity Giving Day began in 2015 after the loss of specialised products broker Roger Pyatt, who suffered a sudden heart attack.
The first event was given the name Row for Roger, with participants undertaking a rowing challenge to beat a containership transiting the Panama Canal. It raised more than £20,000.
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