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.

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.

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 ...

May 30, 2024 More than 1 year ago 4 min Summary Daisy Ridley plays Gertrude Ederle in “Young Woman and the Sea.” (Elena Nenkova/Disney/AP) Review by Thomas Floyd (2.5 stars) ...

Daisy Ridley's next film is called Young Woman and the Sea, which shares the story of Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim across the English Channel. Ridley plays the main character, Trudy ...

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 ...

Gertrude Ederle loved the water. “To me, the sea is like a person — like a child I’ve known a long time,” she once said. “ I never feel alone when I’m out there.” That comfort ...

Ederle, who died in 2003 at age 98, was born in New York as the daughter of a German-born butcher. She swam at the groundbreaking Women’s Swimming Association in New York and won three medals at ...

The biographical drama, starring Daisy Ridley as Gertrude Ederle, who in 1926 became the first woman to swim across the English Channel, was initially set as a direct-to-Disney+ debut.