Gabriela Kovacikova

Gabriela Kovacikova is an open water swimmer and a graduate of Wellesley College in 2014.

Open Water Swimming Career

• She completed a crossing of the English Channel in 2013.
• She participated in a 40.4-mile (65 km) two-way crossing of the Catalina Channel together with Abigail Bergman (Smith College, Class of 2018), Charlotte Samuels (Smith College, Class of 2020), Eliza Cummings (Smith College, Class of 2017), and Cathleen Pruden (Mount Holyoke College, Class of 2016), starting on 16 June 2017 on the first all-female relay double crossing of the Catalina Channel in history. Escorted by an all-female kayak crew of Jax Cole, Alicia Bartley, Heather Barber, and Melissa King, they finished the first leg from the mainland to Catalina Island in 8 hours 16 minutes and the return leg to the mainland in 9 hours 48 minutes for a 18 hour 4 minute two-way crossing.

External links

• Seven Sisters College Women Prepare for Catalina Channel Double Crossing
• Marathon Swimming
• World Open Water Swimming Association
• Open Water Swimming
• Daily News of Open Water Swimming
• 6 Women From 7 Sisters Go 40.4 Across Catalina
• Rebecca Nevitt Has Quite An Incredible 50th