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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.
Big Surf Postpones the 75th Huntington Beach Pier Swim
The 75th Huntington Beach Pier Swim is postponed due to large surf hitting the beaches in Orange...
Preparing Swimmers for Open Water Success with Marcia Cleveland
Marcia Cleveland (61, USA, MSF bio here, IISA bio here, @marciac944) has done the Frosted Triple...
Mayra Santos Living Her Dreams with Madeira Open Water Swim
Over the years, Mayra Santos (@mayrasantosswimmer) has done many swims in Portugal’s Madeira...
Live Television Broadcast of Swim Shōdoshima
Swim Shōdoshima, a stage swim around Shōdoshima Island in Japan will be broadcast live by Nishinippon Broadcasting, starting at 11 am JST on June 26th.
King of the Ice Is Now History’s Fastest Triple Crowner. Andreas Waschburger Set His 8th World Record
Andreas Waschburger has set 8 world records in his open water swimming career, including the fastest 20 Bridges Manhattan Island Swim in history in 5 hours 32 minutes and the fastest cumulative Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming in 20 hours 15 minutes.
Just Get On With It
John Tierney, Ned Gammell, and William Delaszle taught me how durable, how adaptable, and how resilient humans can become during one very cold February morning in 2013