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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.

Rob And Dylan Kent On Being Inclusive On WOWSA Live

Rob And Dylan Kent On Being Inclusive On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Toronto, Canada. Elite pool and die-hard passionate open water swimmer Rob Kent and his son Dylan Kent talked about all things open water, their L.O.S.T. vision, their new International Swim League professional team, and the rapidly growing Global Swim Series with […]

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Monique Wildschut On Swimming Smart On WOWSA Live

Monique Wildschut On Swimming Smart On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, lac St-Jean, Canada. Monique Blok-Wildschut was one of the greatest professional marathon swimmers in the history. The Dutch heroine talked about all things open water and her career with International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame chairman Ned Denison on today’s edition of WOWSA

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Anthony McCarley Deals With Reality On WOWSA Live

Part 2 of WOWSA Live Part 1 of WOWSA Live Anthony McCarley Deals With Reality On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Malvern Pennsylvania. After numerous marathon swims, 100×100 @ 1:40 training sets, and channel swims around the world, Anthony McCarley is now a public speaker and shares his observations, experiences and advice with large

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Julie Ridge Talks About Swimming Around Manhattan On WOWSA Live

Julie Ridge Talks About Swimming Around Manhattan On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Manhattan Island, New York. Julie Ridge has ridden across America on her bicycle, did the Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon in 1984, written a book (Take It to the Limit: Endurance: How to Build It into Everything You Do), been an actress on

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James Pittar On Inspiring And Helping Others On WOWSA Live

Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Sydney, Australia. From participating in the Bering Strait relay and the Pennock Island Challenge in Alaska to completing marathon swims and channel crossings in Argentina, Turkey, Ireland, England, and throughout his native Australia, James Pittar has been impressing, inspiring and helping people the world over. Pittar talked about all things open

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Kathrin Lammers Talks About Traveling On WOWSA Live

Kathrin Lammers Talks About Traveling On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Nanjing, China. Germany’s Kathrin Lammers, an International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer, talked about her long professional marathon swimming career with International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame chairman Ned Denison on the May 10th edition of WOWSA Live. * living in

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Michael Read Covers 65 Years Of History On WOWSA Live

Michael Read Covers 65 Years Of History On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, English Channel, England. 79-year-old Michael Read, MBE swam 40 events during the 2019 season iiincluding the 26 km the International Swimming Marathon of Toroneos Gulf in 11 hours 27 minutes. Read is at the very top echelon of passionate and knowledgeable

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Merle The Mermaid Completes The First Mother Earth Swim

Merle The Mermaid Completes The First Mother Earth Swim Courtesy of Chris Morgan, Venetian Islands, Biscayne Bay, Florida. On Mother’s Day, we honor motherhood and pay homage to our own mothers. The history of Mother’s Day can be traced back to the ancient Greeks and Romans who celebrated and held festivales for their own respective

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Colin Hill Ever Enthusiastic On WOWSA Live

Colin Hill Ever Enthusiastic On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Windermere, England. Enthusiasm for swimming oozes out of every pore of his body. Colin Hill‘s deep and ever-present passion for pool swimming, Endless Pool swimming, winter swimming, ice swimming, competitive professional marathon swimming, FINA and Olympic racing, solo marathon swimming, mass participation events, and

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