Swim Girl, Swiml On 23 August 1926, Gertrude Ederle, a famous American swimmer, became the first woman to swim the English Channel. In 1924, Ederle won a gold medal in the Olympic Games when she was only 17 years old. She swam across the English Channel two years later. She started in France at 7.05 on the morning of 6 August. The swim took 14 hours and 30 minutes. The weather was bad, with wind and rain. The first person to meet her on the English coast was an officer who asked for her passport! When she got home, she became the ster in a movie called Swim Girl, Swim and she also met the President of the United States. Unfortunately, in 1933, she fell down the steps of her apartment building, and because of the accident, she couldn't swim in competitions again, she was left bedridden for many years. She never married and died on 30 November 2003 at the age of 98. 1- Gertrude Ederle was a famous swimmer from England. 2- Ederle wasn't 20 years old when she swam across the English Channel. 3- She started the swim across the Channel in England. 4- She left in the evening of 6 August 1926.
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