Veteran coach Paul Lemmon works with a wide range of junior, senior and masters competitors to help them enjoy and improve their ocean skills on the New South Wales Central Coast of Australia with the Terrigal Surf Life Saving Club and OceanFit.
Paul has won multiple Australian national masters life saver titles in the rescue tube, board, surf race and iron man events.
The former professional ironman athlete once competed in both the hard-core Uncle Toby’s and Nutri Grain Series. The winner of multiple World, Australian and New South Wales State Masters ironman championships, he has twice won the Coolangatta Gold in his age group category with a goal of bringing Australia more gold at the World Life Saving Championships (Rescue 2012) in Adelaide this coming November.
Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Citrus Corps, World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Global Open Water Swimming Conference. He is Chief Executive Officer of KAATSU Global and KAATSU Research Institute. 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), USA Swimming's Glen S. Hummer Award (2007, 2010) and Harvard University's John B. Imrie Award (1984). Served on the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and as Technical Delegate with the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games, and 9-time USA Swimming coaching staff. Note: WOWSA only recommends products or services used or recommended by the community. WOWSA does not receive compensation for links or products mentioned on this site or in blog posts. If it does, it will be indicated clearly on that specific post. See WOWSA's privacy policy for more information.