International Winter Swimming Association Dolls
Courtesy of Ranie Pearce in Vladivostok, Russia. Matryoshka dolls (матрёшка also known as a Russian doll) is a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another that usually follow a theme.
Finland’s Mariia Yrjö-Koskinen and Latvia’s Aleksandr Jakovlevs were honored with the International Winter Swimming Association theme at the latest IWSA competition in Vladivostok, Russia.
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Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Daily News of Open Water Swimming and founder of WOWSA. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010).
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