A Special Swim With A Royal Finish
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California.
The future Princess of Monaco Charlene Wittstock, a former Olympic swimmer for South Africa, handed out the awards to the disabled athletes at the aQuelle Midmar Mile, appropriately so as she is a major patron of the Special Olympics.
The Special Olympics has added a 1.5K open water swim at its 2011 World Summer Games this July. Cornelia Fowler will represent South Africa at the World Summer Games. Additionally, Valentino Vergotine, Mark de Beer, Annemarie Flemming and Siphejihle Mkhize completed the most popular open water swimming mile in the world.
Copyright © 2011 by World Open Water Swimming Association 
The future Princess of Monaco Charlene Wittstock, a former Olympic swimmer for South Africa, handed out the awards to the disabled athletes at the aQuelle Midmar Mile, appropriately so as she is a major patron of the Special Olympics.
The Special Olympics has added a 1.5K open water swim at its 2011 World Summer Games this July. Cornelia Fowler will represent South Africa at the World Summer Games. Additionally, Valentino Vergotine, Mark de Beer, Annemarie Flemming and Siphejihle Mkhize completed the most popular open water swimming mile in the world.
Copyright © 2011 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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