from New York City's Battery Park to Sandy Hook, New Jersey, is called the Ederle Swim in memory of Gertrude Ederle, and follows the course she swam. The Gertrude Ederle Recreation Center is located in Manhattan. A BBC Radio 4 play, The Great Swim, by Anita Sullivan, based on the 2008 book of the same name by Gavin Mortimer, was first broadcast on September 1, 2010, and repeated on January 23, 2012. It dramatizes Ederle's record-breaking crossing of the English Channel. A biographical film, Young Woman and the Sea, based on the book of the same name by Glenn Stout, is set to be directed by Joachim Rønning from a screenplay by Jeff Nathanson and is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer initially for Paramount Pictures, but is later acquired by Walt Disney Pictures for Disney+, with Daisy Ridley to play Ederle. See also List of female adventurers List of Olympic medalists in swimming (women) References Further reading External links Find A Grave page for Gertrude Jacobs Ederle 1905 births 2003 deaths American female freestyle swimmers Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York) Deaf swimmers English Channel swimmers World record setters in swimming Female long-distance swimmers Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in swimming Olympic gold medalists for the United States in swimming People from Highlands, New Jersey People from Wyckoff, New Jersey Sportspeople from Queens, New York Swimmers at the 1924 Summer Olympics Vaudeville performers American deaf people 20th-century American women 20th-century American people 21st-century American women