2018 WOWSA Awards

The official record of the 2018 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

60 named nominees across four categories. Source-list order is not a verified final ranking.

Winners

World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year
Ion Lazarenco Tiron
Republic of Moldova
World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year
Aleksandra Bednarek
Poland
World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year
Great British Swim by Ross Edgley
UK
World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year
Icebears Hintertux
Austria

Complete results

World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year

Ion Lazarenco TironRepublic of MoldovaWinner
Benoît LecomteFrance / USANominee
Cameron BellamySouth AfricaNominee
Diego López DominguezCanary IslandsNominee
Ferry WeertmanNetherlandsNominee
Igor LukinRussiaNominee
John BatchelderUSANominee
José Luis Larrosa ChorroSpainNominee
Kristóf RasovszkyHungaryNominee
Lewis PughGreat Britain / South AfricaNominee
Maarten van der WeijdenNetherlandsNominee
Ned DenisonIreland / USANominee
Rohan MoreIndiaNominee
Vladimir MravecSlovakia / AustraliaNominee
Yaroslav ProninBelarusNominee

World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year

Aleksandra BednarekPolandWinner
Abhejali BernardováCzech RepublicNominee
Ana Marcela CunhaBrazilNominee
Barbara PozzobonItalyNominee
Caroline Block, Ph.D.USANominee
Eilís BurnsIrelandNominee
Hania BakuniakPolandNominee
Jaimie MonahanUSANominee
Nadezhda DudinaRussiaNominee
Oksana BeletskayaRussiaNominee
Pat Gallant-CharetteUSANominee
Paula SelbyUSANominee
Rondi Davies, Ph.D.USANominee
Sharon van RouwendaalNetherlandsNominee
Teruko OnukiJapanNominee

World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year

Great British Swim by Ross EdgleyUKWinner
Catalina Channel Crossing by Hank WiseUSANominee
Century Swim around Key West by Bill WelzienUSANominee
Double Ice Mile by Hamza BakirciogluGermanyNominee
HK360Swim Around Hong Kong Island by Simon HollidayHong KongNominee
Ice Kilometer by Sven ElfferichNetherlandsNominee
Kangsha River Swim by Kshitindra Chandra BaisyaBangladeshNominee
Lake Zürich Two-Way Crossing by Katrin WalterSwitzerlandNominee
Santa Barbara Channel Crossing by Jim McConicaUSANominee
Sfax to Djerba Marathon Swim by Nejib BelhediTunisiaNominee
Traversée Internationale du lac St-Jean by Edoardo StochinoCanadaNominee
Travessia do Leme ao Pontal by Glauco Luise de Oliveira RangelBrazilNominee
Triple Country Swim by Carina BruwerItaly / Monaco / FranceNominee
Tsugaru Channel Tandem Crossing by Nora Toledano Cadena and Mariel Hawley DávilaJapanNominee
Two-way Santa Cruz Island Crossing by Ken MignosaUSANominee

World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year

Icebears HintertuxAustriaWinner
A History of Marathon SwimmingUSANominee
AKUA Kelp JerkyUSANominee
Asociación de Cruce a Nado del Río de la PlataArgentinaNominee
ENERGYbits®USANominee
International Ice Swimming Association World Cup SeriesInternationalNominee
Maelstrom SevenInternationalNominee
Marathon Swimming: The Sport of the SoulUSANominee
Ontberingen van een marathonzwemster / Hardships Of A MarathonswimmerNetherlandsNominee
Patagonia SwimChileNominee
St. Lucia Channel SwimSt. Lucia / MartiniqueNominee
Tahiti Swimming ExperienceTahitiNominee
Take Your DreamAustraliaNominee
TOWER 26USANominee
Waikiki Roughwater Swim DIY Swim CertificateHawaiiNominee

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 2018.

Sixty named nominees are preserved across four categories, with 15 nominees in each category. Historical nominee-list order is preserved but is not treated as a verified final ranking.

Supporting source: https://www.openwaterpedia.com/wiki/WOWSA_Awards

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