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Steven Muñatones
Editor
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 created the www.imshof.org, www.openwaterswimming.com, www.openwaterpedia.com, and www.dailynewsofopenwaterswimming.com websites among many others.
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, and 2022 Dale Petranech Award for Services to the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame.
The Vision of Panagiotis Nastos, As Told By Stathis Avramidis
Dr. Stathis Avramidis, President of the Greek Lifesaving Sports Association, wrote a touching...
Tokushima Kaiyo – Open Water Swimming Amid Offshore Islands and Reefs
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Rivers, Lakes, Oceans…So Wild and Untamed on the Tasmanian Wild West Series
Back in 2024, two-time Olympic swimmer Val Kalmikovs (52, Latvia, MSF bio here) completed an...
Adam O’Byrne Becomes The Most Recent Iron Iceman
45-year-old Adam O’Byrne of New Zealand became an Iron Iceman after completing an Ice Mile in 27 minutes 20seconds in Blue Lake
Swimming Through Postcards. Mission Completed by Francismar Siviero
Francismar Siviero is a Brazilian open water swimmera from Grêmio Náutico União who swims and eloquently and comprehensively documents many open water swims around the world in the Portuguese language via his blog NATAÇÃO MASTER. He also created the...
Matthieu Witvoet and Chloé Léger Across The Atlantic and Into French Schools – Update
Chloé Witvoet and Matthieu Witvoet will attempt a 1,900 km transatlantic drift swim from Cape Verde off the coast of Africa to Pointe-à-Pitre on the island of Grande-Terre, in Guadeloupe in the Caribbean Sea, beginning in November 2025