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Steven Muñatones
Editor
Steven Muñatones was an American water polo player, a collegiate swimmer, and an open water swimmer from Huntington Beach, California. He has been a coach, administrator, writer, race director, kayaker, paddler, official, observer, author, lifeguard, reporter, Olympic commentator, aquapreneur, and adviser in the the sport of open water swimming.
He founded the World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Oceans Seven, WOWSA Awards, Openwaterpedia, KAATSU Global, and KAATSU Research Foundation and served as an ambassador for the American Heart Association. He has written over 21,344 articles on open water swimming, water polo, and KAATSU to date. He created the www.imshof.org, www.openwaterswimming.com, www.openwaterpedia.com, and www.dailynewsofopenwaterswimming.com websites among many others.
He received the 1984 Harvard University John B. Imrie Award, 1990 Guinness World Record, 2001, 2005, 2007 USA Swimming Open Water Swimming Committee Award, 2002 Honor Swimmer, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, 2007 & 2010 USA Swimming Glen S. Hummer Award, 2010 Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award from the International Swimming Hall of Fame, 2016 Poseidon Award from the International Swimming Hall of Fame, 2018 Vermont Open Water Swimming Hall of Fame, 2019 Honor Contributor – Media of the International Ice Swimming Hall of Fame, and 2022 Dale Petranech Award for Services to the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame.
All Kinds of Pool Speed at the Pan Pacific Championships
Two days after the 10 km races of the 2026 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships were completed in...
It All Started In 1985 – Vasanti Niemz Achieves Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming
Way back in 1985, Vasanti Niemz (69, Germany, MSF bio here, @vasanti.hd) completed her first...
IJsselmeer Zwemmarathon, It Started With A Dream
In 1970, the first 21 km IJsselmeer zwemmarathon (@ijsselmeerzwemmarathon) between Stavoren and...
In Memory of Phil Whitten: Understated, Cool, and Brilliant
So many will miss a brilliant man who brought so much to the sport of swimming. He elevated others around him and penned captivating human interest stories of so many in the aquatics world. He passed away on August 15th 2026.
Iancu Avram Completes A Rare Breaststroke English Channel Crossing
50-year-old Avram Iancu completed history’s 13th breaststroke crossing in 24 hours 46 minutes to join the 24-hour Club under, what he described as, almost unbearable physical pain and psychological torment.
Howard James Record Is Safe…For Now
Howard James set two records in 2016 – one of which may be forever untouchable. The same may be true of Thomas Gregory’s record set in 1988