Swimmer Dina Levačić set to create Croatian history in New Zealand
- by croatiaweek
- in Sport
Dina Levačić (Photo credit: Dina Levacic/Facebook)
Marathon swimmer Dina Levačić has arrived in New Zealand where she hopes to realise her dream and create Croatian history by completing the Oceans Seven.
The Oceans Seven is marathon swimming challenge consisting of the 7 largest and most difficult channels in the world.
So far, Dina has conquered six of them – the 30-kilometre Tsugaru Strait between the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido as well as the Catalina Channel, the English Channel, the Molokai Channel, the Strait of Gibraltar and the North Channel.
Only Cook Strait between the North and South islands of New Zealand remains and now the 26-year-old has arrived in New Zealand where she will take it on.
Dina is set to swim the 23-km Cook Strait on 14 March and if she completes it she will become just the 22nd person in the world to complete the Oceans Seven and the first from Croatia.
The record time someone has completed the Cook Strait swim is under five hours, but also there have been people who have taken 16 hours.
(Photo credit: Dina Levacic/Facebook)
“It is not important how long I take, as long as I swim it,” Dina told a press conference before her departure for New Zealand.
If Dina does manage to complete the swim in under 8:30 hours, then it will put her in first place among all those who completed the Oceans Seven.
Dina first started in her quest for the Oceans Seven back in 2017 when she swam the Catalina Channel and the English Channel between England and France.
In 2018 she completed the Molokai Channel and a year later she swam Tsugaru Strait in Japan. The pandemic put a halt to her journey and last year she completed the Strait of Gibraltar and the North Channel.
Dina says that after Oceans Seven her next challenge will likely be swimming between the island of Vis and her hometown of Split.
