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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.
Ella Dyson and Rice Owls To Defend Their CSCAA Open Water National Championship Title
Ella Dyson, a senior at Rice University not only handily won the 2025 MPSF Open Water Swimming...
Be Prepared For Some New Crazy Stings In Northern Japan
Photo courtesy of ITmedia NEWS. For those who are planning ocean swims in northern Japan next year...
Handing Off To The Next Generation
Succession plans are always tough – whether someone is stepping down as a corporate CEO or...
Penny Dean Sprinting Across The English Channel
Penny Dean explains how she treated a 33 km English Channel crossing as a 200-meter sprint in the pool.
Edwin Moses and Open Water Swimmers
Two-time Olympic gold medalist Edwin Moses has a number of admirable characteristics that are possessed by so many open water swimmers around the world.
Ratification, Verification, Certification, Authentication, Confirmation, Sanction, Documentation, Observation … What Do These All Mean?
Marathon swimmers use the terms ratification, verification, certification, sanction, authentication, confirmation, documentation, observation, and other terms. What do they all mean: the same or slightly or vastly different?