2016 WOWSA Awards

The official record of the 2016 WOWSA Awards, including the categories, winners and every verified finalist or nominee preserved for that cycle.

Cycle overview

Records: 59
Categories: 4
Voting model: Global public online poll; exact historical weighting not independently republished in this record.
Presented: Bizerta Hotel Resort, Tunisia, September 2017

Winners

World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year
Nejib Belhedi
World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year
Jaimie Monahan
World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year
Sarah Thomas Lake Powell Crossing
World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year
Samsung Bosphorus Cross-Continental Swim

Complete results

World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year

Nejib BelhediWinner
Alex KostichNominee
Christof WandratschNominee
Colin HillNominee
Edoardo StochinoNominee
Ferry WeertmanNominee
Ger KennedyNominee
Ingemar Patiño MacarineNominee
Lewis PughNominee
Masayuki MoriyaNominee
Roger FinchNominee
Seti AfoaNominee
Tomi StefanovskiNominee

World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year

Jaimie MonahanWinner
Cheryl ReinkeNominee
Chloë McCardelNominee
Elizabeth FryNominee
Nuala MooreNominee
Olga KozydubNominee
Pat Gallant-CharetteNominee
Rachele BruniNominee
Sabrina WiedmerNominee
Sally Minty-GravettNominee
Samantha Arévalo SalinasNominee
Sharon van RouwendaalNominee
Shelley Taylor-SmithNominee
Victoria MoriNominee

World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year

Sarah Thomas Lake Powell CrossingWinner
Carol Schumacher Hayden Catalina Channel CrossingNominee
Craig Dietz 10K Marathon SwimNominee
Cristian Vergara Easter Island CircumnavigationNominee
Dan Canta Triple Crown of Open Water SwimmingNominee
Hudson Brothers Into the MaelstromNominee
Jarrod Poort Olympic 10K Marathon SwimNominee
Javier Mérida Prieto Triple Crown of Open Water SwimmingNominee
Jennifer Figge Bermuda Triangle SwimNominee
Malvinas/Falklands Islands ChallengeNominee
Patrick McKnight Triple Crown of Open Water SwimmingNominee
Pieter Christian Jongeneel Anderica Double Manhattan CircumnavigationNominee
Sean Conway Swim Leg of the World's Longest TriathlonNominee
Spyridon Gianniotis Olympic 10K Marathon SwimNominee
Stephanie Hopson English Channel CrossingNominee
Toshio Tominaga Tsugaru Channel CrossingNominee
Vasilly Mosin Winter SwimmingNominee

World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year

Samsung Bosphorus Cross-Continental SwimWinner
Agar PlasticityNominee
Blue Mind SummitsNominee
Global Alert PlatformNominee
Hawaiʻi Tiger Shark TrackingNominee
InstabeatNominee
KAATSU AquaNominee
KIM SWIMSNominee
Ocean City Swim Club Unified Team / Legion of Ocean Heroes Surf Lifesaving FestivalNominee
OceanFitNominee
Prison Island SwimsNominee
Swimming in the Sink: An Episode of the HeartNominee
Terroir Project CollectionNominee
The Power of Swimming / Simma med StjärnornaNominee
Wildswim.comNominee

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 2016.

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

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