Trudy Ederle did encounter jellyfish during her ground-breaking swim across the Channel and was even stung several times.
the Daisy Ridley starrer about American swimmer Gertrude ‘Trudy' Ederle, who in 1926 became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. For the uninitiated, the film took nearly 10 years ...
Gertrude “Trudy” Opal Lucas, passed from this life January 12, 2025, at her son’s home in Columbus, the same town where she first graced the world with her presence on May 31, 1953.