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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.
Swimming Solo: Japan’s Representative Yuko Matsuzaki To Be Honored
This week, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer (Class of 2011)...
Inchbaggers, Swimming To, From, and Around the Islands of Loch Lomond
Inchbaggers Loch Lomond® was established in 2019 by Chris Sifleet (MSF bio here) after a...
Darecations In The Open Water – Americas Version
Adventure. Calculated risk. Adrenaline rushes. While vacations with those kinds of characteristics...
Egor Tropeano Sets Breaststroke Ice Mile Record in Lago di Cavazzo
Egor Tropeano ripped off the fastest breaststroke Ice Mile recorded in a 25-meter pool in the 4.5° water: in a remarkable 27 minutes 10 seconds.
Absolutely No Monkey Business for Open Water Swimmers
Young swimmers helped serve as drug smugglers based on their abilities to swim well in the open ocean
Swimming Solo Overseas: Yuko Matsuzaki Honored by the Government of Japan
After a 19-year professional marathon swimming career where she was the only Japanese representative, Yuko Matsuzaki received the Overseas Diplomatic Mission Award from the Japanese government this week.