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Milorad Rajšić Didn’t Just Swim … He Lived Swimming

by | December 7, 2025 | open water swimming | 0 Comments

Milorad Rajšić has a history in the Plivački maraton Jarak-Šabac ("Peace Race") as a co-founder, 12-time winner, 28-year participant, promoter, commission, and event director since 1970.
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We Can Do Hard Things. UCLA Lives the Legacy of Patrick Woepse

by | December 7, 2025 | open water swimming | 0 Comments

The legacy of 31-year-old Patrick Woepse, a UCLA water polo player and channel swimmer, was honored in a remarkable comeback victory over rival USC at the 2025 NCAA Water Polo Championships today.
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Wen-Erh Hsu Coasts Around Taiwan’s Xiǎo Liúqiú

by | December 7, 2025 | open water swimming | 0 Comments

Channel swimmer and coach Wen-Erh Hsu of Taipei completed a 12.69 km near circumnavigation swim around Xiǎo Liúqiú in Taiwan
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Penny Dean Sprinting Across The English Channel

by | December 6, 2025 | open water swimming | 0 Comments

Penny Dean explains how she treated a 33 km English Channel crossing as a 200-meter sprint in the pool.
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Edwin Moses and Open Water Swimmers

by | December 6, 2025 | open water swimming | 0 Comments

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.
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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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