Petar Stoychev’s New Website Presence
Petar Stoychev has a new format on his English-language website. The site describes his incredibly vast marathon swimming career, from his English Channel world record of 6 hours and 57 minutes to his ten years of dominance over the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix.A personable, multi-lingual intellectually savvy individual, Petar has been selected to represent the world’s aquatic athletes at FINA and is seeking his fourth straight appearance at the Olympics in London. He has participated in three Olympics as an athlete and placed sixth at the 2008 Beijing Olympic 10K Marathon Swim.
His future is bright – as bright as his past was.
Photo courtesy of Jane McCallum from the Cadiz Freedom Swim.
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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.
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