Atina Bojadži

Atina Bojadži (Macedonian: Атина Бојаџи; 13 March 1944 – 28 December 2010) was a Macedonian Yugoslav marathon swimmer who crossed the English Channel in 1969, being the first woman from Yugoslavia to do so. Nicknamed the "Ohrid Dolphin" after her lakeside hometown, Bojadži won several national and international long-distance swimming races. She became the first woman from former Yugoslavia to swim across the English Channel in 1969. The achievement inspired a 1977 movie about her life and earned her sporting honors in her native Macedonia after it declared independence in 1991.[2]

Atina Bojadži
Born(1944-03-13)13 March 1944
Ohrid, Kingdom of Bulgaria (now North Macedonia)[1]
Died28 December 2010(2010-12-28) (aged 66)
Skopje, then Republic of Macedonia

References
  1. Jozo Tomasevich, War and Revolution in Yugoslavia: 1941 - 1945, Vol. 2, Stanford University Press, 2002 ISBN 0804779244, pp. 160-168.
  2. Macedonian swimming great Bojadzi dies at 66


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