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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.
Inspirational In Ilhabela
After Francismar Siviero completed his Swimming Through Postcards project where he went on a...
Seas The Day Leads Swim Together Around The World After Week 1
The SwimTrek 60k virtual swim event (@swimtrek) – currently running throughout November...
McKinlee Hand Becomes An Iron Icewoman
McKinlee Hand (32, USA, IISA bio here) completed an Ice Mile at Greenlake in Seattle, Washington...
Swimming Around Shōdoshima, Scenic Splendor
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.
When The Politics of Sports Get It Right
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
Marine Creatures To Watch For In The Open Water … Adding Bears To The List
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),...