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The swimmers' Everest.(Editorials)(First woman to swim English Channel dead at 98)(Editorial)
The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
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December 2, 2003
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It's not likely that many Americans remember Gertrude Ederle, who became an international celebrity of the 1920s as the first woman to swim the English Channel. She performed her feat in rugged seas in August of 1926, and made the swim in a record time of 14 hours and 39 minutes - besting the records of five men who had made the 35-mile crossing between 1875 and 1923.
Ederle, who had chosen to remain out of the limelight for years, died Sunday, two years shy of her 100th birthday, in a New Jersey nursing home.
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