Gertrude Caroline Ederle (October 23 1905 – November 30 2003) was an American competition swimmer Olympic champion and former world record-holder. In 1926 she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. Among other nicknames the press sometimes called her Queen of the Waves.
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