Ederle, Gertrude Caroline (1906–2003)
| US swimmer. She won three medals in the 1924 Olympics and, in 1926, she became the first woman to swim the English Channel. Her time of 14 hours, 31 minutes broke the existing men's record by two hours. |
| She was born in New York City. |
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