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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.
Sharon van Rouwendaal Coming To California
As she is traveling around the world from her native Netherlands to Hawaii, three-time Olympic...
Go West Young Man…Alex Kostich Breaks Lake Tahoe’s Vikingsholm Record
Background Back in August 2019, 52-year-old Jorge Angel (58, Colombia, MSF bio here, @jorge-angel)...
Success Across The Sound – 39 Years of Helping Others In Need
39 years in planning and execution. 39 years of success. The 39th annual St. Vincent’s Swim...
Talent Identification and Pacing Variations In World Championship Open Water Swimmers
Reira Hara, Yasunori Fujito, Tomomi Fujimoto, and Kazuo Funato wrote a paper in the Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology called “Evaluation of Race Pace Using Critical Swimming Speed During 10 km Open-Water Swimming Competition”
Stathis Avramidis, PhD Shares Lessons From The Past In Hidden Heroes
Dr. Stathis Avramidis wrote Hidden Heroes: Tragedies that Saved Lives at Sea, an extraordinarily interesting and educational resource to better understand the contemporary world of saving and rescuing others who venture beyond the shoreline.
Dr. Mariam Saleh Binladen Pioneers Antibes-Cannes Crossing
Dr. Mariam Saleh Binladen, a dentist and humanitarian from Saudi Arabia, completed an unprecedented 5 hour 18 minute crossing from Antibes to Cannes in southern France on August 3rd.