Gertrude Ederle (1905-2003), at age 15, became the first woman to swim the length of New York Bay and, in 1924, won three medals at the Paris Olympics. The German American athlete rocketed to ...

Though Disney’s Young Woman and The Sea commemorates American athlete Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle’s impressive aquatic feat, she continued to have an interesting career after the event. Young ...

Exactly 100 years after Gertrude “Trudy” Ederle won her first gold medal at the Olympic Games, Walt Disney Studios is gearing up for the release of Young Woman and the Sea, which follows the ...

Young Woman and the Sea is based on the true story of Gertrude â Trudyâ Ederle, and while it maintains the heart of what happened in reality, there are things the film leaves out and changes.

Gertrude Ederle (1905-2003) made history and rocketed to international stardom in 1926 when, at age 20, she became the first woman to swim the English Channel, then considered one of the toughest ...