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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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Notables Across The Strait of Gibraltar During The 2025 Season

by | November 13, 2025 | open water swimming | 0 Comments

Notable swimmers across the 14.4 km Strait of Gibraltar during the 2025 season included Marcia Cleveland, Sarah Thomas, Sayani Das, Andreas Waschburger, Kathryn Mason, Luis Gilberto Noriega Hoces, Anshuman Jhingran and Tuna Tunca
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Inspirational In Ilhabela

by | November 11, 2025 | open water swimming | 0 Comments

Francismar Siviero is now competing on the domestic Brazilian open water swim series - like the Ilhabela Channel Crossing - before heading off to Argentina for the OCEANMAN race in Córdoba on his global tour.
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Seas The Day Leads Swim Together Around The World After Week 1

by | November 10, 2025 | open water swimming | 0 Comments

Seas The Day is currently leading the SwimTrek campaign #SwimTheWorld, the world's largest virtual swim campaign, after Week 1.
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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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