Sharon Van Rouwendaal Named OW Swimmer Of The Year
Courtesy of Swimming World Magazine.
22-year-old Sharon van Rouwendaal continued the Dutch tradition of coming on top of the open water swimming world, winning the 2016 Rio Olympic Games 10 km marathon swim and being named Swimming World Magazine’s Female Open Water Swimmer of the Year.
She followed in the wake of Herman Willemsee, Judith van Berkel de Nijs, Monique Wildshut, Edith van Dijk, Linsy Heister, Maarten van der Weijden, and Ferry Weertman, as Dutch swimmers who reached the pinnacle of the world of open water swimming.
Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association 
22-year-old Sharon van Rouwendaal continued the Dutch tradition of coming on top of the open water swimming world, winning the 2016 Rio Olympic Games 10 km marathon swim and being named Swimming World Magazine’s Female Open Water Swimmer of the Year.
She followed in the wake of Herman Willemsee, Judith van Berkel de Nijs, Monique Wildshut, Edith van Dijk, Linsy Heister, Maarten van der Weijden, and Ferry Weertman, as Dutch swimmers who reached the pinnacle of the world of open water swimming.
Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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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