Tag: Gertrude Ederle
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Women Who Swim | Young Woman and the Sea | Disney UK
Alongside the recent release of the empowering feature film Young Woman and The Sea starring Daisy Ridley, we teamed up with some inspiring female swimmers to showcase their amazing achievements Young Woman and the Sea follows the real-life achievements of Gertrude ‘Trudy’ Ederle who overcame enormous prejudice to be the first woman to swim the…
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Gertrude Ederle – First Woman to Swim the English Channel, National Heroine | Unpacking The Problem
Daniel tells us about how when Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel she instantly became a national hero. When she arrived home to the United States she was met with an enormous ticker-tape parade through downtown New York City. He also explains how Diana Nyad claimed that her swim from…
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10 Women Who Changed Swimming Forever | MySwimPro
From 1912 to 2021, these 10 female swimmers made history, paving the way for the next generation of athletes.
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Gertrude Ederle’s swim suit
In 1926, Olympic gold medalist Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim across the English Channel – and when she did she became, for a brief time, the most famous woman int he world. She is remembered to day a s a pioneer in the gender equity movement.
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Mysteries at the Museum – Gertrude Ederle
Host Don Widman and Mysteries at the Museum visits the International Swimming Hall of Fame in Fort Lauderdale to discover a swim suit that changed attitudes toward women athletes.
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Becoming a Channel Swimmer
Karen Throsby is an associate professor in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. In this video, she talks about her recent (auto)ethnographic research on marathon swimming.
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Gertrude Ederle
This was my 2009 History Day project on the English Channel swimmer Gertrude Ederle.
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Lily James Starring as Swimmer Gertrude Ederle in ‘Young Woman and the Sea’
Paramount and Jerry Bruckheimer have tapped Lily James to portray Gertrude Ederle in a movie about the first woman to swim across the English Channel. Bruckheimer is producing and Jeff Nathanson is adapting the script from Glenn Stout’s book “Young Woman and the Sea,†which chronicles Ederle’s 1926 swim across the 21 mile stretch of…
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Gertrude Ederle – First Woman to Swim the English Channel
Historical footage of Trudy’s Ederle’s Channel swim. The song Blackbird was a hit the same year. As it is with many open water ultra endurance swimmers, they usually have a song stuck in their head. Could this have gone through her mind on the day of her swim so long ago? Gertrude Ederle – First…