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The English Channel (French: , "the sleeve") is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates England from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about 560 kilometer long and ...
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Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English channel on August 6, 1926 She left Cape Griz-Nez, France, at 7:05 a.m. and reached the shore line at Kingsdown, England, 14 hours and 30 minutes later. Only five men had succeeded i...
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Gertrude Ederle, a famous American swimmer, became the first woman to swim the English Channel. In 1926, at the age of 19, Ederle swam the channel from; France to England. Her time of 14 hours 39 minutes for the 35-mile (56-kilometer) distance broke the previous record and stood as the women's record for 35 years.
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And when she struggled out of the surf near the white cliffs of Dover, the first woman to swim across the English Channel, she brought with her a record that would become the women's standard for 35 years.
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Gertrude Ederle, who battled riptides, crosscurrents, driving rain and turbulent seas to become the first woman to swim the English Channel died Nov. 30, 2003, ......
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On August 6, 1926, 19-year-old Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the 21 miles across the English Channel in 14 hours and 31 minutes—nearly 2 hours less than any man had at that point. Ederle passed away in November 2003. image © 2009 www.clipart.com...
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NEW YORK -- Gertrude Ederle, who was the toast of America and Europe in 1926 when she became the first woman to swim the English Channel, died yesterday. She was 98.
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The comic David Walliams says he has suffered "utter misery" while training to swim the English Channel for his forthcoming Sports Relief charity bonanza. That sounds about right. Not for nothing is the crossing known as the "Everest of open water swimming". ... First to swim the Channel unaided was Captain Matthew Webb,
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