Gertrude Ederle sponsored by a newspaper, the "Baltimore Post", which tried to create a rivalry between her and Ederle in the weeks spent training off the French coast. In addition to Cannon, several other swimmers, including two other American women – Clarabelle Barrett and Amelia Gade Corson – were training in England with the goal of becoming the first woman to swim the Channel. Barrett and Cannon were unsuccessful but three weeks after Ederle's feat, Corson crossed in a time that was 50 minutes slower than Ederle. For her second attempt at the Channel, Ederle had an entourage aboard the tug (the
Gertrude Ederle Mortimer, was first broadcast on September 1, 2010, and repeated on January 23, 2012. It dramatises Ederle's record-breaking crossing of the English Channel. Her name makes a cameo appearance in Disney's The Princess and the Frog in a newspaper article being read by character Eli "Big Daddy" La Bouff. A film adaptation, "Young Woman and the Sea" based on the book of the same name by Glenn Stout, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer with a screenplay by Jeff Nathanson, was set up at Paramount Pictures in 2015 and remains in development . She broke the Record set by all men before