Caitlin O’Reilly of Waitoki celebrates swimming the English Channel in 9.5 hours.
At 19 years of age, Caitlin O’Reilly is one of the country’s unsung sporting stars, well on her way to completing the Oceans Seven – a marathon swimming challenge made up of seven open water channel swims.
She recently returned home to Waitoki after completing three of the seven swims in just 33 days – the English Channel (33km), Gibraltar Strait (16km) and the North Channel (34.5km).
With Cook Strait (26km) under her belt since 2017 (she was the youngest Kiwi to achieve this) and Tsugaru Strait (19.5km...
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