Gertrude Ederle

North American called the ‘Queen of the waves’. She won two gold medals at the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924. She was the first woman to swim across the English Channel in 1926 with a time of 14 hours and 34 minutes.

The record kept him for 24 years and, before she achieved it, only 5 men had achieved it successfully. She became totally deaf in 1940 and since then dedicated herself to teach the discipline of swimming to children with hearing problems. She died in 2003.

Amelia Earhart

She was the first woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean on a solo plane, in 1932. On May 20 of the aforementioned year, she landed in Culmore, Ireland, after 14 hours and 56 minutes of having been in the air.

This feat she did with 34 years and then came later, as the return to the world she wanted to make in 1937, where her plane disappeared over the Pacific Ocean.

Marie Marvingt

She was the first female pilot who fought and piloted a bombing during the First World War. After this great feat, she became the first trained nurse and worked in several ambulances around the world.

During the Second World War, she established the convalescent center for injured aviators, where she developed as a surgical nurse inventing a new type of suture.

At age 80, in 1955, he climbed for the first time to an American fighter-bomber reactor.