Hero’s welcome for Lisa after Channel crossings
And Lisa Cummins joked that the only water she wants to be in for the next few days is a warm jacuzzi. Her parents, Declan and Margaret, and her sister, Amy, were joined by dozens of friends and supporters at Cork airport as Lisa, 26, from Blackrock in Cork, touched down on dry land after her remarkable record-setting feat of endurance.
The postgraduate student at UCC spent 35 hours and 36 minutes swimming back and forth across the world’s busiest shipping channel – known as the Everest of open-water swimming. Lisa now joins an elite club of just 20 people who have completed the dual crossing. Lisa also became the first female in the world to complete the swim without ever having completed a previous channel crossing before.
