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Rachel Griffin, Surprised and Saved by Jellies, Achieves The Triple Crown

by | November 16, 2025 | open water swimming | 0 Comments

Rachel Griffin was stung badly by jellyfish. Her dreams of finishing her crossing of the English Channel and achieving the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming seemed gone. But the painful jellyfish stings had an unexpected outcome.
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Victor Piñeiro Joins The 24-Hour Club in an Unprecedented Isle of Man to Gunn Island Crossing

by | November 16, 2025 | open water swimming | 0 Comments

Swim Shōdoshima is an 66 km 8-day  stage swim around Shōdoshima Island in  Japan. Scheduled to start in June 2026, it will be the final training and logistical preparation for the 1,188 km Swim Shikoku  that will start a month later.
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Swimming Around Shōdoshima, Scenic Splendor

by | November 16, 2025 | open water swimming | 0 Comments

Swim Shōdoshima is an 66 km 8-day  stage swim around Shōdoshima Island in  Japan. Scheduled to start in June 2026, it will be the final training and logistical preparation for the 1,188 km Swim Shikoku  that will start a month later.
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When The Politics of Sports Get It Right

by | November 15, 2025 | open water swimming | 0 Comments

It took years of a coordinated international effort on the part of numerous dedicated volunteers to get open water swimming into the Special Olympics World Summer Games
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Marine Creatures To Watch For In The Open Water … Adding Bears To The List

by | November 14, 2025 | open water swimming | 0 Comments

Open water swimmers have ever-growing opportunities to venture beyond the shorelines around the world. They can challenge themselves to the Oceans Seven, various kinds of Triple Crown swims, stage swims (continuous and non-continuous, contiguous and non-contiguous),...
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Steven Muñatones

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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 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.

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