Eva Okaro

Date of Birth	10 November 2006
Age	19
Commonwealth Appearances

Swimming starlet Eva Okaro is ready to represent Team England for the first time at Glasgow 2026 having made her Olympic debut at Paris 2024 aged 17. 

The teenager became the first black woman to represent Team GB in the pool after Alice Dearing blazed an open water trail at Tokyo 2020.

Okaro grew up swimming with twin sister Izabella in Kent and found her affinity for the pool at Sevenoaks Swimming Club. 

She was setting British age records by the age of 14 and invited to join elite training weekends with the British senior team in Loughborough as the sprinter followed in the footsteps of Anna Hopkin.

At the 2024 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships, Okaro clocked 54.46, just 0.13 behind British champion Hopkin for silver to book her Olympic debut in Paris.

In her maiden Games outing, she joined forces with Hopkin, Lucy Hope and Freya Anderson to finish seventh in the women's 4x100m freestyle relay.

Okaro continued her 2024 of firsts with a silver medal in the 4x100m relay at the Short-Course World Championships in Budapest.

Born to a Nigerian father and Polish mother, she has added five more British gold medals to her collection over 2025 and 2026.

Two more golds in the 50m freestyle and 50m butterfly each came alongside 100m freestyle gold at the 2026 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships.