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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.

Pat Gallant-Charette Talks About Nearing Her Peak On WOWSA Live

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Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame chairman Ned Denison interviewed fellow Hall of Famer Pat Gallant-Charette of Maine on today’s edition of WOWSA Live. In addition to her channel swimming and lake swimming successes and disappointment, the 69-year-old from Maine continues to set records and redefine athleticism and […]

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Christof Wandratsch Is 2020 IISA World Cup Series Champion

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Christof Wandratsch Is 2020 IISA World Cup Series Champion Courtesy of The International Ice Swimming Association. International Ice Swimming Association World Cup circuit had stops in the Netherlands (Amstel Ice Swim), Germany (Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere German Open & IISA® World Cup Veitsbronn 2020), and the UK (IISA Great Britain Championships). Before the global pandemic

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Kyra Wijnker Is 2020 IISA World Cup Series Champion

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Kyra Wijnker Is 2020 IISA World Cup Series Champion Courtesy of The International Ice Swimming Association. International Ice Swimming Association World Cup circuit had stops in the Netherlands (Amstel Ice Swim), Germany (Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere German Open & IISA® World Cup Veitsbronn 2020), and the UK (IISA Great Britain Championships). Before the global pandemic

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Merle’s Mermaid Marathon In Miami

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Merle’s Mermaid Marathon In Miami Sponsored by WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Local news and social media over the past week in Miami’s Biscayne Bay have been flooded with images of dead fish floating across the bay and littering shores of southern Florida. Marine life is literally struggling to breath. Florida International University scientists have reported

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Anna-Carin Nordin Describes Her Global Adventures On WOWSA Live

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Anna-Carin Nordin Describes Her Global Adventures On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame chairman Ned Denison interviewed fellow Hall of Famer Anna-Carin Nordin of Sweden on today’s edition of WOWSA Live. In addition to her Oceans Seven achievement, the 49-year-old Swedish marathon swimmer and ice swimmer

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Keeping Safe, Enjoy The 2020 Bosphorus Cross Continental Swim

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Keeping Safe, Enjoy The 2020 Bosphorus Cross Continental Swim Courtesy of Pelin Çelik, Bosphorus Turkey. Pelin Çelik explains, “COVID-19 has affected Turkey as in other countries, but the situation is getting better every day. The annual Bosphorus Cross Continental Swimming Race (Turkish: Boğaziçi Kıtalararası Yüzme Yarışı), always held in July, was postponed until August 23rd.

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