Moroccan Trio Makes History with Team Swim Across Gibraltar Strait

The Moroccans Fakhita Drissi, 42, Samia Benchekroun Taibi, 37, and Hassan Baraka, 35, are the first to cross the Strait of Gibraltar as a team this year, said the Association of the Strait Crossing (ACNEG).

The three Moroccans left from Tarifa (Cadiz) and reached Dalia, near the Moroccan coast, after 4 hours and 5 minutes of swimming, reports EFE.

The swimming crossings of the Strait officially started this year on June 7, when a Spaniard and an American took up this challenge which had not been achieved during the last two years due to the health crisis related to Covid-19.