2013 WOWSA Awards

The official record of the 2013 WOWSA Awards, including the categories, winners and every verified finalist or nominee preserved for that cycle.

Cycle overview

Records: 60
Categories: 4
Voting model: Global public online poll; exact historical weighting not independently republished in this record.
Presented: Cork, Ireland, 11–13 October

Winners

World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year
Pádraig Mallon
World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year
Olga Kozydub
World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year
Bering Strait Swim
World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year
International Ice Swimming Association

Complete results

World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year

Pádraig MallonWinner
Alexander BrylinNominee
Damián BlaumNominee
Darren MillerNominee
Doug WoodringNominee
Glen ChristiansenNominee
Jim McConicaNominee
Jose DiazNominee
Mally RichardsNominee
Oussama MellouliNominee
Rafael Gutiérrez MesaNominee
Thomas LurzNominee
Tomi StefanovskiNominee
Vojislav MijićNominee
Wayne RiddinNominee

World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year

Olga KozydubWinner
Anna-Carin NordinNominee
Charlotte BrynnNominee
Diana NyadNominee
Kimberley ChambersNominee
Lorna CochranNominee
Lynn KubasekNominee
Martina GrimaldiNominee
Michelle MacyNominee
Nadia Ben BahtaneNominee
Nuala MooreNominee
Poliana OkimotoNominee
Sally Minty-GravettNominee
Sarah ThomasNominee
Shelley Taylor-SmithNominee

World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year

Bering Strait SwimWinner
BCT Gdynia MarathonNominee
Emily BrunemannNominee
Héctor Ramírez BallesterosNominee
Ka'iwi Channel SwimNominee
Mateusz SawrymowiczNominee
Melissa CunninghamNominee
Mohamed MaroufNominee
Ned DenisonNominee
Night Train SwimmersNominee
Richard WeinbergerNominee
Swim4GoodNominee
Sylvain EstadieuNominee
Wendy TrehiouNominee
Women’s 10K World ChampionshipNominee

World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year

International Ice Swimming AssociationWinner
21 Yaks and A SpeedoNominee
Amphibia Sports RingNominee
Bold & BeautifulNominee
DrivenNominee
FINIS Agility PaddlesNominee
Global Open Water Swimming ConferenceNominee
Ocean Swimming & Prone Paddleboarding for Athletes with Spinal Cord InjuriesNominee
Ocean-naviNominee
Open Water Swimming Manual: An Expert's Survival GuideNominee
Oru KayakNominee
Ouma AcademyNominee
Plastic Disclosure ProjectNominee
Santa Barbara Channel Swimming AssociationNominee
Swim SmoothNominee

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 2013.

Complete surviving nominee lists are preserved across four categories. Source-list order is not treated as a verified final ranking.

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