Atina Bojadži
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Atina Bojadži (Macedonian: Атина Бојаџи; 13 March 1944 – 28 December 2010) was a Yugoslav marathon swimmer of Aromanian Macedonian descent.[2] She 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.[3]
References[]
- ^ Jozo Tomasevich, War and Revolution in Yugoslavia: 1941 - 1945, Vol. 2, Stanford University Press, 2002 ISBN 0804779244, pp. 160-168.
- ^ ФЕЉТОН ЗА ЕТНИЧКИТЕ ЗАЕДНИЦИ (4): НАЈПОЗНАТИТЕ ВЛАСИ НИЗ ИСТОРИЈАТA,Капитал.мк, Објавено на 7 април 2019, 19:00 од Дејан Азески во МКД-БИЗНИС И ПОЛИТИКА.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Macedonian swimming great Bojadzi dies at 66
Categories:
- 1944 births
- 2010 deaths
- Sportspeople from Ohrid
- Macedonian female swimmers
- Yugoslav female swimmers
- English Channel swimmers
- Macedonian people of Aromanian descent
- Yugoslav people of Aromanian descent
- European swimming biography stubs
- Macedonian sportspeople stubs