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    Gertrude Caroline Ederle (October 23, 1905 – November 30, 2003) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder in five...
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  • Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films, the film stars Daisy Ridley as Gertrude Ederle, an American competitive swimmer who became the first woman to swim...
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  • accounts of his role as a trainer in the first, failed attempt of Gertrude Ederle to swim the channel. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, on 19 November 1876...
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    the French water polo team at the 1900 Olympics. In 1926 he coached Gertrude Ederle who became the first woman to swim the English Channel. Burgess was...
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  • War I Gertrude Ederle (1905–2003), American swimmer; first woman to swim across the English Channel This page lists people with the surname Ederle. If an...
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    representative of the Daily Sketch waiting on the shore with a cheque in hand. Gertrude Ederle's successful cross-channel swim began at Gris Nez in France at 07:05...
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    psychological thriller The Marsh King's Daughter (2023). She also portrayed Gertrude Ederle in the biographical drama Young Woman and the Sea (2024). Ridley was...
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    English Channel swimmer Gertrude Ederle has a guest appearance. Bebe Daniels as Alice Smith James Hall as Jerry Marvin Gertrude Ederle as herself Josephine...
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  • Woman and the Sea, about the first woman to swim the English Channel, Gertrude Ederle. The book was adapted into the 2024 film of the same name, starring...
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  • director Gertrude Dunn (1933–2004), American professional baseball player Gertrude Ederle (1905–2003), American competitive swimmer Gertrude B. Elion...
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    Gertrude "Trudy" Belle Elion (January 23, 1918 – February 21, 1999) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology...
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    mile from Dover's Shakespeare Cliffs. In the wake of criticism that Gertrude Ederle had benefited from swimming alongside a tugboat, Corson's motorboat...
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    New York Hippodrome along with fellow Olympians Aileen Riggin and Gertrude Ederle. They later toured round some of the biggest theaters in the U.S. using...
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    such as the return of Theodore Roosevelt from his African safari, Gertrude Ederle swimming the English Channel, and Charles Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic...
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    divorced 1948); to Allene Gates (married 1948, divorced 1962); and to Maria Gertrude Baumann (born 1921, died 2004; they were married from 1963 until his death...
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    most famous marathon swim of all time was accomplished in 1926 by Gertrude Ederle, when she became, at 19 years of age, the first woman to swim across...
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    Pennington Mercy Otis Warren 2003 Linda G. Alvarado Donna de Varona Gertrude Ederle Martha Matilda Harper Patricia Roberts Harris Stephanie L. Kwolek Dorothea...
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    Dahlberg, Tim; Ward, Mary Ederle; Greene, Brenda (2009). America's Girl: The Incredible Story of How Swimmer Gertrude Ederle Changed the Nation. St. Martin's...
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    freestyle relay, together with American teammates Euphrasia Donnelly, Gertrude Ederle and Mariechen Wehselau. The U.S. relay team set a new world record...
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  • (in minutes) prior to the 1924 Summer Olympics. In the first heat Gertrude Ederle set the first Olympic record for this event with 6:12.2 minutes. In...
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    Pennington Mercy Otis Warren 2003 Linda G. Alvarado Donna de Varona Gertrude Ederle Martha Matilda Harper Patricia Roberts Harris Stephanie L. Kwolek Dorothea...
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  • appointed as undersecretary to the Synod of Bishops. August 6, 1926: Gertrude Ederle, first woman to swim across the English Channel. 1937: Grace Hudowalski...
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    Pennington Mercy Otis Warren 2003 Linda G. Alvarado Donna de Varona Gertrude Ederle Martha Matilda Harper Patricia Roberts Harris Stephanie L. Kwolek Dorothea...
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    Shipe East Crystal Eastman Mary Baker Eddy Marian Wright Edelman Gertrude Ederle Gertrude Belle Elion Dorothy Harrison Eustis Alice C. Evans Geraldine Ferraro...
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  • sports where women frequently best men in competition. Athletes like Gertrude Ederle, Greta Andersen, Shelley Taylor-Smith, and Cindy Nicholas have been...
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    and Belgium in first handball international tournament. August 6: Gertrude Ederle swims English Channel and is first woman to do so. September 23: Gene...
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    Pennington Mercy Otis Warren 2003 Linda G. Alvarado Donna de Varona Gertrude Ederle Martha Matilda Harper Patricia Roberts Harris Stephanie L. Kwolek Dorothea...
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    film Swim Girl, Swim, which starred Bebe Daniels and a fellow swimmer Gertrude Ederle. There were unproductive rumours that Gleitze might star in a film...
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  • and politician, President of the Republic of China (d. 1993) 1905 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003) 1908 – František Douda, Czech shot putter...
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    Pennington Mercy Otis Warren 2003 Linda G. Alvarado Donna de Varona Gertrude Ederle Martha Matilda Harper Patricia Roberts Harris Stephanie L. Kwolek Dorothea...
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