gertrude ederle

     

On August 8, 1950 Florence Chadwick broke her 1926 English Channel swim record

Trivia about gertrude ederle

  • 2 years after winning 3 Olympic medals in 1924, she made her famous Channel swim
  • A song & a dance were named for this lady who swam the channel in 1926 & passed away at age 98 in 2003
  • In 1975 a New Jersey park was named for this swimmer of the English Channel
  • In 1926 she swam the English Channel in 14 1/2 hours, breaking the men's record by 2 hours
  • She suffered permanent hearing loss after becoming the first woman to swim the English Channel
  • In the 1924 Olympics she won bronze in the 100- & 400-m. Free; 2 years later, she swam the English Channel at age 19
  • The 1920s sports legend seen here, she turned 95 in 2001
  • People said women couldn't swim the Channel... I proved they could"; & so she did, in 1926

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