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Who Will Define the Next Century of Open Water? On 6 August 1926, Gertrude Ederle stepped out of the water on the English coast as the first woman to swim the Channel, nearly two hours faster than any man who’d done it before her. New York gave her the biggest ticker-tape parade the city had ever thrown. She’d said beforehand that she had the confidence she could do it. She was right. Thursday 6 August 2026 is the 100th anniversary of that swim. It’s also the day nominations open for the 2026 WOWSA Awards. A hundred years after Ederle changed…
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