After a failed 1925 attempt and a year of training, Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel in ...
Gertrude Ederle was asked to provide her passport after the gruelling 14-and-a-half hour swim ...
Family members of Gertrude Ederle have travelled to Kent to join a festival celebrating 100-years since she became the first ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adapted from Glenn Stout's 2009 book of the same name, the film tells the true story of how Ederle, at just 20 years old, became ...
When Gertrude Ederle — the first woman to swim the English Channel and to set a new speed record for doing so — died six years ago at the age of 98, I remember routinely glancing at the photos on the ...
ON THE morning Gertrude Ederle set off on her cross-Channel swim in 1926, a London newspaper ran a front-page editorial arguing that her failed attempt a year earlier simply proved that women were ...
On 6 August 1926, the 19-year-old made the crossing from Cap Gris-Nez to Deal in 14 hours and 39 minutes, breaking the men’s record by almost two hours ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paramount and Jerry Bruckheimer have tapped Lily James to portray Gertrude Ederle in a movie about the first woman to swim across ...
Gertrude Ederle, 98, who in 1926 was the first woman to swim across the English Channel, becoming a symbol of daring in an exuberant age, died of cardiac arrest Nov. 30 at a nursing home in Wyckoff, N ...
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