The President of the Albanian National Olympic Committee (NOC), Fidel Ylli, warmly welcomed Eva Buzo, the Albanian-Australian who recently swam across the Otranto Strait.

President Ylli congratulated Eva Buzo on successfully completing her challenge and awarded her the Olympic Order in recognition of her extraordinary courage and determination, making her the first woman to swim across the Otranto Strait.

During the meeting, lawyer Buzo briefed on all the achievements of NOC and congratulated President Fidel Ylli on Albania’s success in Paris, which brought home the first Olympic medals in the history of Albanian sports.

Eva Buzo completed her 34-hour journey on Monday, covering 92 kilometers from the shores of Lecce in Italy. She swam from the cliffs of San Focca to the Karaburun Peninsula in Vlora, where she touched Albanian soil in one of its bays, near the Cape of Gjuhëza, in the early hours of Monday morning.

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