Gertrude Ederle was an American swimmer born in 1905 who made history by becoming the first woman to swim across the English Channel in record time when she was 21 years old in 1926. She passed away in 2003 at the age of 98, having lived a long life after her pioneering swim.

1. NAME: Gertrude Ederle
COUNTRY: USA
BIRTH DATE: 23/10/1905
JOB: Swimmer
DEATH DATE: 30/11/2003. AGE: 98
RELEVANCE: First woman to cross the
English Channel in record time. AGE: 21

2. She died on the 30th of November 2003, when
she was ninety-eight years old.
Her name was Gertrude Ederele.
She was from the USA.
She was born on the 23rd of October
1905.
She was a swimmer.
She was the first woman to cross the English
Channel in record time, when she was twenty-
one.