{"id":5598,"date":"2023-03-30T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T01:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/photold.org\/?p=5598"},"modified":"2023-03-30T01:00:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T01:00:33","slug":"the-uk-womens-olympic-swim-team-stockholm-1912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/2023\/03\/30\/the-uk-womens-olympic-swim-team-stockholm-1912\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK women\u2019s Olympic swim team, Stockholm, 1912."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div><p>The UK women&#8217;s Olympic swim team made a splash in 1912 at the Stockholm Olympic Games. The team was made up of five members &#8211; Gertrude Ederle, Irene Steer, Ethel Lackie, Violet Piercy, and Mina Wylie &#8211; and they all made history that day.<\/p>\n<p>Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel, and in doing so, she set a world record for the fastest time. Irene Steer took home a bronze medal in the 100-meter freestyle and a silver medal in the 4&#215;100-meter freestyle relay. Ethel Lackie won bronze in the 200-meter breaststroke. Violet Piercy won the gold medal in the 4&#215;100-meter freestyle relay and the bronze in the 100-meter backstroke. Lastly, Mina Wylie won a bronze medal in the 400-meter freestyle.<\/p>\n<p>The UK women&#8217;s Olympic swim team made waves by winning a total of seven medals and setting four world records. Their success earned them a place in history and paved the way for future female athletes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-35.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5599\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photold.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-35.jpg?resize=720%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" title=\"image-35-jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-35.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-35.jpg?resize=80%2C80&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-35.jpg?resize=720%2C720&amp;ssl=1 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK women&#8217;s Olympic swim team made a splash in 1912 at the Stockholm Olympic Games. The team was made up of five members &#8211; Gertrude Ederle, Irene Steer, Ethel Lackie, Violet Piercy, and Mina Wylie &#8211; and they all made history that day. Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel, and in doing so, she set a world record for the fastest time. Irene Steer took home a bronze medal in the 100-meter freestyle and a silver medal in the 4&#215;100-meter freestyle relay. Ethel Lackie won bronze in the 200-meter breaststroke. Violet Piercy won the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/2023\/03\/30\/the-uk-womens-olympic-swim-team-stockholm-1912\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The UK women\u2019s Olympic swim team, Stockholm, 1912.<\/span> r\u00e9szletei&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[58,2046,2402,2045,2401,2404,2024,2406,1309,2400,2399,2403,2405],"class_list":["post-5598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-photo","tag-58","tag-englishchannel","tag-ethellackie","tag-gertrudeederle","tag-irenesteer","tag-minawylie","tag-olympic","tag-olympicgames","tag-stockholm","tag-stockholm1912","tag-ukwomensolympicswimteam","tag-violetpiercy","tag-worldrecords","post_format-post-format-image","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5600,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5598\/revisions\/5600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressnavigator.hu\/photold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}