American Olympic gold medalist, swimmer Gertrude Ederle (1905 - 2003) poses in the sea at Brighton, training for her cross English Channel swim, July 2, 1925.

Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle was the first woman to swim across the English Channel. During a time when female athletes were not taken seriously, she proved critics wrong.

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 woman to ...

The real-life Gertrude Ederle was so utterly compelled that she put her hearing, already damaged by a childhood bout with the measles, at serious risk with her immersions. Based on a biography by ...

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Stirring sports biopic takes on sexism, has little iffy content. “Young Woman and the Sea” is a biopic about Gertrude Ederle, who in 1926 became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.