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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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Kyra Wijnker Won 1000m Freestyle IISA World Cup Series Title

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Kyra Wijnker Won 1000m Freestyle IISA World Cup Series Title Courtesy of Ram Barkai, International Ice Swimming Association. The 2020 IISA World Cup Series has concluded after a season where the world’s best ice swimmers and winter swimmers competed in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Vietsbroon (Germany) and Cheltenham (Great Britain). Ram Barkai, chairman of the International Ice […]

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Christof Wandratsch Sweeps 2020 IISA World Cup Series Titles In 500m, 1000m Freestyle

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Christof Wandratsch Sweeps 2020 IISA World Cup Series Titles In 500m, 1000m Freestyle Courtesy of Ram Barkai, International Ice Swimming Association. The 2020 IISA World Cup Series has concluded after a season where the ice swimmers competed in Amsterdam (Netherlands), Vietsbroon (Germany) and Cheltenham (Great Britain). Ram Barkai, chairman of the International Ice Swimming Association

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Focus In October: Perhentian Island Marathon Swim

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Focus In October: Perhentian Island Marathon Swim Courtesy of Mohammed Sofian Ismail, Pulau, Perhentian Besar, Malaysia. Will Sweden’s Fredric Liljestrom and Sheryl Lyn Slater defend their record-setting times (of 3 hours 35 minutes and 4 hours 1 minute) this year on October 10th at the Perhentian Island Marathon Swim, a 16 km circumnavigation swim held

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2020 Boston Frogman Swim

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2020 Boston Frogman Swim Courtesy of WOWSA, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. Nagle (1:09:11.2), Chris Jones (1:10:40.0) and David Swensen (1:12:36.8) went 1-2-3 at last year’s inaugural Boston Frogman Swim, a 5 km charity swim across Boston Harbor between East Boston and downtown Boston on June 7th. The event is part of the growing Frogman Swim Series includes the original Tampa Bay Frogman Swim in Florida. Frogman

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Teaching Open Water To The Next Generation

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Teaching Open Water To The Next Generation Courtesy of WOWSA, Long Beach, California. Parents and coaches often ask how their young athletes can develop a passion and yearning for the open water. These 10 relatively easy steps to a good start: 1. Develop a love and appreciation for the coastline and shoreline. Allow the children

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Winter Swimming In Vermont; Ice Swimming In Samoëns

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Winter Swimming In Vermont; Ice Swimming In Samoëns Courtesy of WOWSA. This coming weekend, Phil White is organizing the 6th Annual Memphremagog Winter Swim Festival in Lake Memphremagog in Vermont, U.S.A., while Jacques Tuset, Dr. Alexandre Fuzeau, and Florian Lucas are organizing the French Championships in Lac des Bois aux Dames in Samoëns, France. The

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Chun Kong Mak, One Very Hardened Butterflyer

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Chun Kong Mak, One Very Hardened Butterflyer Courtesy of Chun Kong Mak, Altenwörth, Niederösterreich, Austria.. After Pauline Barker completed the first Butterfly Ice Mile in Harthill Reservoir in Rotherham, England in 52 minutes on November 23rd 2016 in 4.73°C water. Chun Kong Mak took up the challenge on February 16th in Altenwörth, Niederösterreich, Austria. He

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