On 6 August 1926, Ederle swam out into the English Channel again. This time she was wearing a swimsuit of her own design – a ...

Though Disney’s Young Woman and The Sea commemorates American athlete Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle’s impressive aquatic feat, she continued to have an interesting career after the event. Young ...

Gertrude Ederle, 19, of New York City was the first woman to swim the English Channel on this date in 1926 when she crossed the 21-mile waterway in 14 hours 31 minutes from Cape Gris-Nez, France ...

American Olympic gold medalist, swimmer Gertrude Ederle (1905 - 2003) poses in the sea at Brighton, training for her cross English Channel swim, July 2, 1925.

Gertrude Ederle loved the water. “To me, the sea is like a person — like a child I’ve known a long time,” she once said. “ I never feel alone when I’m out there.” That comfort ...

Gertrude Ederle Here’s one example of what can happen when women are freed from their corsets. The Editors. Share. Copy Link. Facebook. X (Twitter) Bluesky. Pocket. Email. August 18, 1926.

Sports Actor Daisy Ridley put in some laps to portray swimmer Gertrude Ederle. The Star Wars actor trained rigorously for “Young Woman and the Sea,” Joachim Ronning’s movie about the first ...

As Gertrude Ederle, having splashed through the breakers at Cape Gris Nez, fell into a slow crawl beside the tug, “Pop” Ederle sat on deck, chatting comfortably to Thomas Burgess (trainer ...

In 1926, 20-year-old Gertrude Ederle, raised in a German immigrant household in New York City, swam the English Channel in 14 hours and 31 minutes. She bested the previous record-holder, ...

Stirring sports biopic takes on sexism, has little iffy content. “Young Woman and the Sea” is a biopic about Gertrude Ederle, who in 1926 became the first woman to swim across the English ...

“Young Woman and the Sea” star Daisy Ridley had three months to prepare for her role as Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim across the English Channel. She began the training buoyed by pluck.