Michael Ventre Smiling And Swimming To Save The Children
Michael Ventre from Botswana added another notch to his impressive open water swimming resume last month.The English Channel (15 hours 18 minutes) and Molokai Channel (22 hours 30 minutes) swimmer has endurance in his blood (#31 on the Oceans Seven list), ice in his veins (Winter Swimming World Championships) with courage to boot (Robben Island to Blouberg in 2 hours 33 minutes) buoyed by a charitable spirit (raising money for Save the Children, World Food Program, and The Hunger Project).
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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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