Ederle became the first female to swim the length of New York Bay, breaking a men’s recorded. Ederle was an Olympic Swimmer who broke records and swam the English Channel during the 1920’s. “People said woman couldn’t swim the channel but I proved they could.” History proves that Gertrude was not afraid to swim across the English Channel in 1925, made endurance swimming famous, and she built the mold of socially acceptable in swimming so woman would not be afraid to do the sport they love. Her father was butcher who owned a market in New York City area. How she started to become this inspiration was her dad taught her how to swim and used a rope around her waist when she was a toddler. Ederle spent the summer days at the Atlantic Ocean and …show more content…
Ederle left her school to start training to be a competitive swimmer, she first started to compete when she was nine years old. She made her first win when Ederle was sixteen years old, also held 29 records. “How did she make swimming famous?”
“What made Ederle want to swim across the channel?” Ederle wanted to be the first woman to swim across the channel, and also beat the men’s record. Ederle wanted to try again because she got disqualified because a person touched her off the boat that was driving beside her the whole time. She also didn’t wanna give up what she has been training for her whole life and been working towards.
“How did she make endurance swimming famous?” Ederle competed in 1924 Olympic Games, and she became famous in her teen years. Gertrude taught deaf children to swim distance and mid- distance after she lost her hearing.
The doctors told her not to keep swimming because she had measles as a child growing up in the suburbs of New York City with her folks. The doctors were fearing that dampness and bacteria would worsen it, and keep it