Gertrude Caroline Ederle was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion and world record holder in five events. Raised in Manhattan, she learned the American crawl at the Women's Swimming Association and held 29 United States national and world records between 1921 and 1925. At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris she won gold in the 4x100 metre freestyle relay and individual bronze medals in the 100 and 400 metre freestyle. On 6 August 1926 she became the first woman to swim the English Channel, finishing in 14 hours and 45 minutes, nearly two hours faster than the previous record set by Enrique Tirabocchi in 1923. The press called her the Queen of the Waves.
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Born 23 October 1905 in New York
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she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel
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Individually, she received bronze medals in the women's 100-meter freestyle and women's 400-meter freestyle races
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was an American competition swimmer
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At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, Ederle won a gold medal as a member of the U.S. team in the 4×100 meter freestyle relay
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