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13 documents for 1926 channel swimmer

- World Record Swim Honors New Yorker's 1926 Historic Feat as First Woman to Swim English Channel; Marathon Swimmer Freestyles 22 Miles from Battery Park to Sandy Hook, Encourages Fitness for a New Generation of Women.
Tammy van Wisse, an accomplished Australian marathon swimmer, will attempt a 22-mile world-record swim from Battery Park, NY to Sandy Hook, NJ on Frid...
- Business Wire
- July 17, 2006
- Buoyancy: in literature, as in life, the art of swimming isn't hard to master.
The most famous swimmer among the English poets, Lord Byron, wrote a jaunt...By the time Gertrude Ederle swam the channel in 1926, she beat the men's record by two hours, s...
- American Scholar
- Vol. 77 Nbr. 3, June 2008
- Inactive membership roster.
..., William A 215/246-3010 C M S Companies 1926 Arch St Fl 2 Philadelphia PA 19103-1444 LANDRY, Br...'REILLY, Michael Andrew 718/318-6086 1827 Channel Rd Broad Channel NY 11693-1218 E-mail: ammtor@aol.... Court 161 High St NW Warren OH 44481-1006 SWIMMER, Michael 212/344-3900 Belair & Evans 61 Broadway R...
- Florida Bar Journal
- Vol. 77 Nbr. 8, September 2003

- First to Swim the English Channel
You need not care one whit about swimming, women breaking sports barriers or events of the 1920s to be gripped by sportswriter Glenn Stout's fast-paced account of how, in 1926, a partially deaf, 19- year-old New Yorker became the first woman to swim the English Channel. Gertrude Ederle, the second of three daughters of a butcher-shop owner and his wife, learned to swim in the sea off the Highlands, N.J., fishing village/beach community close to the ethnic neighborhoods of Lower Manhattan.

... knew it at the time, but of all the swimmers in the race, none had more experience swimming in ...
- The Washington Times
- July 15, 2009
- John L. Peytavin, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Government Employees Insurance Company Et Al., Defendants-Appellees., 453 F.2d 1121 (5th Cir. 1972)
... a claim for damage caused by a ship to a channel light built on piles driven in Mobile Bay was with... claims arising from alleged injuries to a swimmer who dived off a pier into 18 inches of "navigable ...19, 46 S.Ct. 379, 70 L.Ed. 805 (1926) [holding a wharfboat used to transfer freight bet...
- Federal Circuits
- First Woman Across ; English Channel Swimmer's Feat Chronicled by Niece From Glen Rock
WHAT: Book signing for "America's Girl: The Incredible Story of How Swimmer Gertrude Ederle Changed the Nation" by Tim Dahlberg with Mary Ederle Ward and Brenda Greene WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

...In 1926, Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim ac...
- The Record, Bergen County, NJ
- October 08, 2009
- Funeral Services and Memorials
ANTONIO SILBIANO ARMIJO Our beloved father and grandfather, passed away on January 29, 2008 with his family at his side.

... Brunhoff in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 5, 1926. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1948 with...She was an avid swimmer and competed in the Northern California Master's s... Sound, Penobscot Bay and the English Channel. Bet loved to hike. She hiked with friends into Ug...
- The Santa Fe New Mexican
- February 06, 2008
- Ederle Channeled Her Efforts and Made History
Before there was Title IX, Billie Jean King's humiliation of Bobby Riggs in tennis' "Battle of the Sexes," and women such as track star Wilma Rudolph, figure skater Michelle Kwan and gymnast Shawn Johnson finishing ahead of men to win the Sullivan Award as the best American amateur athlete, there was Trudy. Trudy" was Gertrude Ederle, an outstanding swimmer at short and medium distances, starting in 1919, when she won her first junior championship. She became an Olympian in 1924 in Paris, winning a gold medal as part of a team and two bronze medals in individual events.

Then, 84 years ago last week, June 2, 1926, the 20-year-old embarked from New York bound fo...
- Buffalo News
- June 07, 2010
- Once Lost to History, Swimmer's Story Resurfaces
Before Title IX and the women's sports revolution of the late 1970s and 1980s, there was the golden age of sports. In the 1920s, female athletes enjoyed popularity and fame.

... the first woman to swim the English Channel, Glenn Stout offers an incredible look at women, s... to try again, this time successfully, in 1926. Stout's writing makes him a solid storyteller, wi...
- Buffalo News
- July 21, 2009
- 'An Interest in Physical Well-Being Among the Feminine Membership': Sporting Activities for Women at Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Associations.
...For the novice as well as more-advanced swimmers the YWHA pool held a prominent place in the physic... those who will try and swim the English Channel" (referring to Gertrude Ederle).(38) . The Quest f...'s Hebrew Association Building opened in 1926 the swimming pool was "one of the most talked abou...
- American Jewish History
- Vol. 87 Nbr. 1, March 1999