Croatian Swimmer Dana Levacic First Woman to Cross Gibraltar Strait in 2024
Croatian Dana Levacic is the first woman to cross the Strait of Gibraltar by swimming and without a wetsuit, between Tarifa (Cádiz) and the Moroccan coast, this year.
The 26-year-old woman has become this Sunday the first woman to have crossed the Strait of Gibraltar by swimming this year, according to the Association of the Strait Crossing (ACNEG).
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Dana Levacic left this morning from the island of Tarifa, and reached Point Cires, about a hundred meters from the Moroccan coast, near the port of Tanger Med, after 3 hours and 3 minutes of swimming, reports Sport.
The crossings by swimming of the Strait have officially started this year on June 7, when a Spaniard and an American took up this challenge which had not been recorded during the last two years marked by the health crisis.
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