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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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生き甲斐 – Living Well Around The Open Water

Steven Munatones recalled, “I have swum many times in Okinawa, the southernmost prefecture of Japan. The archipelago is near Taiwan. The waters are beautiful and challenging with hundreds of islands, some uninhabited and each dotted with coral reefs. The longer swims included a 29 km circumnavigation around Yonaguni Island in Okinawa with hundreds of hammerhead […]

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Mayank Vaid Pioneers The First HK360Xtreme Challenge

Mayank Vaid Pioneers The First HK360Xtreme Challenge Courtesy of Shu Pu, Hong Kong. Mayank Vaid, a Hong Kong-based intellectual property lawyer, had to dig deep, very very deep over the weekend when he became the first person to complete the HK360Xtreme Challenge, the first triple-stage circumnavigation triathlon around Hong Kong Island. The HK360Xtreme Challenge is

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Marcos Vinicius Zamboni Fraccaro Completes Travessia do Leme ao Pontal

Marcos Vinicius Zamboni Fraccaro Completes Travessia do Leme ao Pontal Courtesy of Adherbal de Oliveira, Travessia do Leme ao Pontal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After a long period of interruption due to the pandemic, the Travessia do Leme ao Pontal returned. 35-year-old Marcos Vinicius Zamboni Fraccaro completed the 36 km from Leme to Pontal in

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Join Colin Hill, Jaimie Monahan, Alice Dearing At 2020 Kendal Mountain Festival

Join Colin Hill, Jaimie Monahan, Alice Dearing At 2020 Kendal Mountain Festival Courtesy of Colin Hill, Kendal, Cumbria, UK. The 2020 Kendal Mountain Film Festival showcases outdoor adventure films and, this year, guest speakers like Jaimie Monahan, Alice Dearing and outdoor swimming session leader Colin Hill with Outdoor Swimmer Magazine. The Outdoor Swimming Session is

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Silvia Dalotto-Marcó On The Historia de la Academia Olímpica Argentina

Silvia Dalotto-Marcó On The Historia de la Academia Olímpica Argentina Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer Silvia Beatríz Dalotto-Marcó competed in 50 races on the professional marathon swimming circuit for 7 years and is currently serving as the Director de Proyectos at Comité Olímpico Argentino. Dalotto-Marcó

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Maratona Aquática Released By Diogo Zoppi

Maratona Aquática Released By Diogo Zoppi Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 34-year-old swimmer, coach and triathlete Diogo Zoppi wrote Maratona Aquática. Das Piscinas As Aguas Abertas O Guia Definitivo Do Treinamento Para Nadadores E Triatletas. With 267 pages and 15 chapters, the book in Portuguese helps educate coaches, swimmers and triathletes about training in

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Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli Honored By International Marathon Swimming Hall Of Fame

Courtesy of Ned Denison, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. One of the most fabled and historic marathon swims in the world, the Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli has always attracted the world’s best swimmers. Over its history, great professional marathon swimmers including John Kinsella, Claudio Plit, Petar Stoychev, Veljko Rogošić, Paul Asmuth, Alfredo Camarero Yuri

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Colin Hill Honored By The International Swimming Hall Of Fame

Courtesy of Ned Denison, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Colin Hill has left his mark on many of the world’s most prestigious open water races and events from the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim in London to FINA professional marathon swimming circuit races. Hill was selected as the 2021 recipient of the Irving Davids-Captain Roger

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