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.

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.

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Gertrude Ederle, who was the toast of America and Europe in 1926 when she became the first woman to swim the English Channel, died Sunday. She was 97. Ederle had spent the last ...

Young Woman and the Sea is based on the Glenn Stout book of the same name, which recounts how real-life American competitive swimmer Gertrude "Trudy" Ederle became the first woman to swim across ...