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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.

Andy Truscott Discuss Setting The Bar On WOWSA Live

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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Records in the open water are constantly being set and broken, planned and dreamed. A few records are covered around the world like Quadruple English Channel crossing of Sarah Thomas. Other records are also mind boggling, but not covered outside the marathon swimming community like the Double Down of

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Facing Eddies, Undertows, Rapids With Rob Hutchings

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Courtesy of Rob Hutchings, Clutha River, New Zealand. Rob Hutchings swam the length of the impossible, the full length of the powerful Clutha River – or Mata-Au – the second longest river in New Zealand and the longest in the South Island. Between February 20th – 24th 2020, 44-year-old Rob Hutchings swam 256 km from the outlet at Lake

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