World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year

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noun - The World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year award is meant to honor the efforts and swims that (1) best embody the spirit of open water swimming, (2) are representative of the sense of adventure, tenacity and perseverance that open water swimmers are known for, and (3) have demonstrated the most impressive open water swimming performance of the year.

The World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year is awarded together with the World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year, the World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year and the World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year as part of the WOWSA Awards. It is presented by World Open Water Swimming Association.

The 2010 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year, World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year and World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year were presented at the United Nations in New York, and on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California in 2011.

Contents 1 Recipients 2 2012 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year Nominees 3 2011 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year Nominees 4 Videos 5 External links

Recipients

• The 2009 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year was by Andrew Smilley from the Cayman Islands for swimming in the RCP Tiburon Mile in San Francisco Bay, California.
  

• The 2010 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year was by the American team of Ventura Deep Six that swam 202 miles along the California coast. Ventura Deep Six included Jim McConica, Tom Ball, Kurtis Baron, Jim Neitz, Mike Shaffer and John Chung at the United Nations. The 202-mile effort took 4 days 5 hours 39.53 minutes and was a logistical extravaganza and open water swimming operational milestone.

• The 2011 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year was Nejib Belhedi's 1400K Swim Across Tunisia.

• The 2012 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year was Juan Ignacio Martínez Fernández-Villamil, the long-time organizer of the Descenso a Nado Ría de Navia in Navia, Spain.

2012 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year Nominees

1. Alina Warren (Scotland), Swimming Great Glen Way
2. Brenton Williams (South Africa), Deep Blue Flying
3. Dan Projansky (USA), Flying Down The Red River
4. Dutch Ladies First (Netherlands), English Channel Relay Record
5. Frank Flowers (Cayman Islands), Blossoming In The Cayman Islands
6. Haley Anderson (USA), Silver Lining At the Olympics
7. James Pittar (Australia), Shelley Beach Swim
8. Juan Ignacio Martínez Fernández-Villamil (Spain), The Heart of Navia
9. Lexie Kelly (USA), Open Water Swimming Archivist
10. Night Train Swimmers (USA/New Zealand), SF to SB Relay
11. Penny Palfrey (Australia), Marathon Adventurer
12. Philippe Croizon (France), Bering Strait Crossing
13. Saint Martin Island Long Distance Channel Swimming in Bangladesh
14. Stephen Redmond (Ireland), Tsugaru Channel Crossing
15. Trent Grimsey (Australia), English Channel Record

2011 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year Nominees

1. 1400K Swim Across Tunisia (Tunisia) – Swimmer of Peace and Bridge Builder
2. Colleen Blair (Scotland) – Swimming Across the Graveyard of Ships
3. Bridging The Cayman Islands (Cayman Islands) – Captivating Channel Challenge
4. Farallon Islands Swimming Association (USA) – Enabling a Renaissance In San Francisco
5. Julie Galloway (Ireland) – Record-setting Marathon Swimmer
6. Ray Gandy (USA) – Two Days in the Bay
7. Japan to Taiwan Ocean Swim Challenge (Japan – Taiwan) – Bridge Across Troubled Waters
8. Swann Oberson (Switzerland) – Switzerland’s First World Champion
9. Patagonia Extreme Cold Water Challenge (Chile and Argentina) – Adventure at the Tip of South America
10.Progetto Adriatico (Italy to Albania) – Learning To Be Free
11.Rebekah Boscariol (Canada) – Swimming for SickKids
12.The Swim (United Kingdom) – Charity Relay Across the Irish Sea
13.Selina Moreno Pasagali (Spain) – Marathon Swimming Cancer Survivor
14.Special Olympics World Summer Games (Greece) – A Special Global Catalyst of Good
15.A Swim For The Coastlines – Un Nado Por Las Costas (Dominican Republic) – Coastal Cleanup Crowds
16.Windermere 12-way Warriors (Great Britain and Malta) – Dozen Times Better

Videos

External links

• Ventura Deep Six
• 2010 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year
• World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year
• World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year
• Open Water Swimming
• World Open Water Swimming Association
• I Do Not Know Yet What I Cannot Do
• World Open Water Swimming Association
• 2012 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year Nominees
• The Odyssey Of Open Water Swimming
• 2012 WOWSA Performance Of The Year, Moreno Of Navia
• WOW...Whatta Year Of Achievement
• Moreno From Navia Humbly Gives Thanks