Parade for Gertrude Ederle coming up Broadway, New York City, with large crowd watching, 1926. CREDIT: Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.

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The International Swimming Hall of Fame inducted Ederle in 1965, and the National Women’s Hall of Fame inducted her in 2003. Ederle died in Wyckoff, N.J., in 2003 at age 98.

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 ...

Along with her historical achievement of swimming from France to England, Ederle was an Olympic gold medalist in the 1924 games. In an interview with SI Kids, Ridley explained that she was ...