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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 ...
Vindication Swim is a 2024 biographical drama film about swimmer Mercedes Gleitze, who in 1927 became the first British woman to swim the English Channel. The film is written and directed by Elliott Hasler , starring Kirsten Callaghan in the lead role with John Locke playing her coach and Victoria Summer as a rival swimmer.
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 ...
Before Muybridge's 1878 work, photo sequences were not recorded in real-time because light-sensitive emulsions needed a long exposure time. The sequences were basically made as time-lapse recordings. It is possible that people at the time actually viewed such photographs come to life with a phénakisticope or zoetrope (this certainly happened ...
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]