2008 WOWSA Awards

The official record of the 2008 WOWSA Awards, including the categories, winners and every verified finalist or nominee preserved for that cycle.

Cycle overview

Records: 25
Categories: 2
Voting model: Global public online poll; exact historical weighting not independently republished in this record.
Presented: Huntington Beach, California, USA

Winners

World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year
Randy Nutt
World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year
Edith van Dijk

Complete results

World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year

Randy NuttWinner
Alex KostichNominee
Bob PlacakNominee
Chad HoNominee
David DaviesNominee
Dmitrij BelovNominee
Douglas WoodringNominee
Emilio CasanuevaNominee
Maarten van der WeijdenNominee
Petar StoychevNominee
Sam GreethamNominee
Scott RiceNominee
Sid CassidyNominee
Thomas LurzNominee

World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year

Edith van DijkWinner
Angela MaurerNominee
Britta KamrauNominee
Jennifer FiggeNominee
Larisa IlchenkoNominee
Marcia ClevelandNominee
Natalie du ToitNominee
Penny PalfreyNominee
Sandy Neilson-BellNominee
Shelley Taylor-SmithNominee
Zhange “Vivien” LiangNominee

Source and archival note

This record is maintained by the World Open Water Swimming Association using original Awards records, published results, archived pages and verified supporting sources. Historical names and category names are preserved as published in 2008.

Complete surviving nominee lists are preserved for the Man and Woman of the Year categories. Source-list order is not treated as a verified final ranking.

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