Yasunari Hirai Is On A Mission
Bulgarians (Petar Stoychev) and Swiss (Swann Oberson) trained with Germans (Thomas Lurz).Italians have trained in Florida and Russians have trained in Brazil in preparation for major international competitions. Ned Denison attracts swimmers from all over the globe to his swimming grounds in Sandycove Island while dozens of swimmers from all kinds of nations descend upon Malta and Aquatic Park in San Francisco.
The world of open water swimming is extraordinarily global and becoming truly borderless.
As yet another example, Olympic marathon swimmer Yasunari Hirai will be heading over to Mission Viejo in California to train with his American marathon swimming colleagues like Ashley Twichell.
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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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