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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 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, 2022 Dale Petranech Award for Services to the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame.

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Willpower – Finite Or Infinite Among Marathon Swimmers?

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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kilometer after kilometer, open water swimmers continue to forge through the world’s oceans, lakes and bays.  Seemingly impervious to pain, discomfort and cold (or hot) temperatures, these aquatic adventures take endurance to the ultimate extremes.  They inspire each other as the global open water swimming community continues to get […]

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My First Marathon Swim – An Adventure From Capri To Napoli

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Yuko Matsuzaki, the only Japanese Honour Swimmer in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, brings her Japanese perspective and unique humor to every open water swim she does. Yuko-san, who currently works at the Rosen Hotels & Resort as a travel professional, explains her first experience in a professional marathon swim at the Maratona

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Clean Half Turns 50

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Doug Woodring has been at the intersection of marine environmentalism and the open water swimming world for many years. There is a natural grassroots fit between the global community interested in resolving the increasingly polluted and over-fished marine ecology and the open water swimming community. Relentlessly and creatively, the native Californian has been in the

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