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  2. Esther Williams - Wikipedia

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    Esther Jane Williams (August 8, 1921 – June 6, 2013) was an American competitive swimmer and actress. She set regional and national records in her late teens on the Los Angeles Athletic Club swim team.

  3. Annette Kellerman - Wikipedia

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    Kellermann helped popularize the sport of synchronised swimming, and authored a swimming manual. She appeared in several movies, usually with aquatic themes, and as the star of the 1916 film A Daughter of the Gods was the first major actress to appear nude in a Hollywood production. Kellermann was an advocate of health, fitness, and natural ...

  4. Katie Ledecky - Wikipedia

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    Her six individual gold medals are the most of any female Olympic swimmer and female US Olympian, and the second-most of all Olympic swimmers behind Michael Phelps. She became the first swimmer to win a distance event three times in a row, as well as the youngest and oldest person to win the 800 free (at age 15 in 2012 and age 24 in 2021).

  5. Annette Bening's new Netflix movie Nyad debuts with 100% ...

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    Annette Bening's new Netflix movie Nyad has debuted with a 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating.

  6. Nyad (film) - Wikipedia

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    Nyad is a 2023 American biographical sports drama film about swimmer Diana Nyad's multiple attempts in the early 2010s to swim the Straits of Florida, with flashbacks to her early life.

  7. The true story behind Diana Nyad's 110-mile, 52-hour Cuba to ...

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    Nyad became a world-renowned swimmer in the 1970s, and made headlines in 1975 at age 25 for setting a world record by swimming around the island of Manhattan in less than eight hours — beating ...

  8. Gertrude Ederle - Wikipedia

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    Gertrude Caroline Ederle (October 23, 1905 [1] – November 30, 2003) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder in five events.On August 6, 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. [2]

  9. Eleanor Holm - Wikipedia

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    Eleanor Grace Theresa Holm (December 6, 1912 [2] [3] – January 31, 2004) was an American competition swimmer and Olympic gold medalist. An Olympian in 1928 and 1932, Holm was expelled from the 1936 Summer Olympics team by Avery Brundage under controversial circumstances.