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First Norwegian to swim the English Channel England to France China Zhang Jian 2001 11:56 First person from China to swim the English Channel. [44] [45] [46] England to France Barbados Chris Gibbs 2003 11:30 First person from a Caribbean country to swim the English Channel. Aged 58, and member of The Merrymen Calypso band. [47] England to France
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]
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.
[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 ...
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 ...
[1] [2] She is holder of the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming [3] [4] [5] and holds the world record for the highest swim on Earth as part of the Madswimmer team by swimming in Mount Putha Hiunchuli in the Himalayas at 6405m. [6] [7] [8] She is also an ice swimming world champion [9] [10] [11] and has crossed the English Channel.
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 ...
One year after breaking the world record for longest current-neutral swim for Lake Powell, Thomas broke the world record once more in 2017, this time by over 20 miles (32 km) in Lake Champlain. Her 104.6 miles (168.3 km) swim was the first current-neutral open water swim of over 100 miles, and as of 2021 [update] the world record for longest ...