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Young Woman and the Sea is a 2024 American biographical sports film directed by Joachim Rønning and written by Jeff Nathanson, based on the 2009 book by Glenn Stout.Produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films, the film stars Daisy Ridley as Gertrude Ederle, an American competitive swimmer who became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
First Belgian person and man to swim the English Channel. [40] [41] France to England Canada Winnie Leuszler: 1951 13:25 First Canadian to swim the English Channel. [42] [43] England to France Netherlands Jan van Hemsbergen: 1951 14:03 First Dutch person and man to swim the English Channel. [44] [45] France to England United Kingdom Jenny James ...
[70] [71] It also inaccurately portrays her completing a swim of the English Channel, which official records show she never did, [63] and gives her the extraordinary English Channel crossing time of 7.5 hours, which would make her time 10 minutes faster than the current record-holder for fastest swim by a woman (or lady, per Channel Swimming ...
Gertrude Caroline Ederle (/ ˈ ɛ d ər l i /; [1] October 23, 1905 [2] – 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. [3] Among other nicknames, the press called her "Queen of the Waves". [4] [5]
Rebecca Lewis (born 1983 or 1984, known as Becky), is an English long-distance swimmer. She held the record among English women for the fastest crossing of the English channel in 2009, 2010, and 2013, and in 2016 set a record for the fastest two-way crossing of the channel for both British men and women. [1] Between 2007 and 2022, she completed ...
Thomas Gregory (born 9th October 1976) swam the English Channel in 1988 at the age of 11 years and 333 days. As of 2025 he still holds the record as the youngest person to have done so. [1] No one will take the record from him because the Channel Swimming Association has since set an age limit of 16 years for officially recognised crossings. [2]
In 2014, she coached and crewed 2x relays to swim the English Channel. These swimmers raised over US$125 000 for a cancer charity – Swim Across America . In July 2015, she also coached and crewed one of the 2014 English Channel relay fundraisers, Grant Wentworth, to swim between Cape Cod and Nantucket (USA) and, in doing so, raising $150 000 ...
He completed the 40-mile swim which broke the record for the longest freshwater swim, and earned publicity from The Times. [99] The record stood until 1899 when it was beaten by Montague Holbein. [3] By 1879, Webb was in financial trouble. [100] To raise funds, he entered a long-distance swimming race organised by Beckwith.