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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

100 years ago, on this day, at 7:08 am, Gertrude ‘Trudy’ Ederle entered the water near Cape Gris-Nez. At 9:40pm she walked out of the water at Kingsdown Beach as the first woman to swim the English Channel, beating the men's record by nearly two hours. #OnThisDay

The image is an oval monochrome photograph from a scrapbook showing Gertrude walking along the beach in the moments leading up to her historic swim. She is wearing a two-piece bathing suit and goggles. The photograph is annotated Miss Ederle starts (7-8 A.M)

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Réka Vass 🇭🇺 @softrekavass.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Trudy Ederle's channel swim century later still hits different

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Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Gertrude (Trudy) Ederle was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder in five events and one of the best-known American sports personages of the 1920s. Trudy completed her Channel swim at just 20 years old.

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