Gertrude Ederle

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January 25, 2014

 

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She won her first big race when she was fifteen years old and began to get a good sized collection of first place trophies. From 1921 to 1925, Ederle set 29 United States and world records for swimming races ranging from the 50-yard to the half-mile race. In the 1924 Summer Olympic Games, she won a gold medal as a member of the championship U...
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400-meter freestyle relay team. She also won bronze medals for finishing third in the 100-meter and 400-meter freestyle races. With funding from the Women's Swimming Association, Gertrude Ederle first attempted to swim the English Channel on August 18, 1925. Eight hours and forty-six minutes in the water, with only six miles to go, a wave engulfed her, and she had to stop to spit out the salt water...
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