Toshio Tominaga

Toshio Tominaga was nominated for the 2016 WOWSA Awards, a recognition of outstanding men, women, performances and offerings around the globe sponsored by the World Open Water Swimming Association in the category of the World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year

Toshio Tominaga at start of Tsugaru Channel crossing in northern Japan

Toshio Tominaga swimming in the middle of the Tsugaru Channel crossing from Honshu to Hokkaido in northern Japan

Toshio Tominaga after finish of Tsugaru Channel crossing in northern Japan

Toshio Tominaga (富永俊夫) in Japanese is a 73-year-old Japanese open water swimmer and former water polo player from Hiroshima Prefecture.

Open Water Swimming Career

• Tominaga completed a solo swim across the Tsugaru Channel in Japan in 6 September 2016 in 9 hours 58 minutes under the guidance of escort pilot Captain Mizushima and Ocean Navi
• Tominaga completed a swim across the Bosphorus Strait in Turkey in 2009
• Tominaga attempted an English Channel crossing in 2013
• Tominaga has completed numerous open water swims in Japan
• Tominaga was nominated for the 2016 WOWSA Awards, a recognition of outstanding men, women, performances and offerings around the globe sponsored by the World Open Water Swimming Association in the category of the World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year for this channel crossing of the Tsugaru Channel in northern Japan

2016 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year nomination

Tominaga was nominated for the 2016 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year.

Toshio Tominaga is a patient man. Quiet and unassuming, the Japanese swimmer and former water polo player from Hiroshima worked for decades as he put this aquatic career on hold. At the age of 62 upon his retirement, he started to make up for lost time. He never lost his feel for the water and started to do channel swims and oceans swim both in Japan and around the world from Turkey to England. But his dream swim was to cross the Tsugaru Channel in Japan. At the age of 73, he finally got himself physically and mentally prepared. On a nearly perfect day, everything came together as he crossed the channel in 9 hours 58 minutes from Honshu to Hokkaido. For his flawless strategy in crossing a technically difficult channel, for realizing his dream to become one of history's oldest successful channel swimmers as a septuagenarian, for serving as a role model and maintaining his health, strength and dreams throughout his long life, Toshio Tominaga's Tsugaru Channel Crossing is a worthy nominee for the 2016 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year.

External links

• Doc Counsilman Helped Usher In An Increasingly Graying Trend In Channel Swimming
• International Day of Older Persons and the Aging Demographics of Open Water Swimmers
• Sarah Thomas' Lake Powell Marathon Is 2016 World Open Water Swimming Performance Of The Year
• Tsugaru Channel Swimming Association
• 73-Year-Old Completes Historic Tsugaru Channel Crossing
• Oldest Individuals To Swim Across The World's Channels
• World Open Water Swimming Association
• Marathon Swimming
• Daily News of Open Water Swimming
• Open Water Swimming
• Terrific Toshio Tominaga Tackles Tsugaru
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• 73歳、津軽海峡泳いで横断　最高齢記録
• When Water Polo And Open Water Swimming Mix
• Tough Toshio Tominaga Tackles Tsugaru
• Tough Toshio Tominaga Tackles Tsugaru - Tsugaru Channel Swimming Association
• 2016 WOWSA Awards Nominees
• 2016 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year Nominees
• 2016 World Open Water Swimming Woman of the Year Nominees
• 2016 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year Nominees
• 2016 World Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year Nominees
• Getting Better As We Get Older In The Open Water
• Oldest Individuals To Swim Across The World's Channels
• Never Too Old, Facing Challenges With Pat Gallant-Charette
• Are Open Water Swimmers Getting Older And Wiser?
• Swimming Benefits Society As It Ages