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World Aquatics Swimming World Cup

{{Short description|International swimming tournament}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}}

{{Infobox recurring event

| name = Swimming World Cup

| native_name =

| native_name_lang =

| logo =

| logo_caption =

| image = World Aquatics Swimming World Cup.png

| status = Active

| genre = Sports event

| date = Midyear

| begins =

| ends =

| frequency = Annual

| years_active =

| first = 1988

| last = 2024

| organised = World Aquatics

| member =

| website = [https://www.worldaquatics.com/ World Aquatics]

}}

File:Marine Messe Hall A, Swimming Venue, World Aquatics Championships 2023.jpg

File:FINA Swimming World Cup Venue Eindhoven.jpg

The World Aquatics Swimming World Cup (formerly known as the FINA Swimming World Cup) is an international series of swimming meets organized by World Aquatics (the international governing body formerly known as FINA). Launched in 1988, the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup is staged between August and November every year and attracts a high level of athletes due to the considerable prize money on offer. The event is traditionally held in short course (25m pool) format, with a switch to long course (50m pool) format in pre-Olympics years.

Prior to the COVID hiatus in 2020 the event was being held in three clusters, totaling seven three day meets across seven different locations with prize money reaching US$2.5 million.{{Cite web |title=FINA Swimming World Cup 2019 | fina.org - Official FINA website |url=http://www.fina.org/event/fina-swimming-world-cup-2019/details |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190421075731/http://www.fina.org/event/fina-swimming-world-cup-2019/details |archive-date=2019-04-21 |access-date=2019-04-23}} The event resumed in 2021 as four meets each of three days duration, and the 2023 edition was staged as three meets each of three days duration.

The event is popular with prominent swimmers due to the prize money on offer. In 2022, a total of US$1.2 million was awarded. For each meet the top 20 male and female athletes shared US$224,000 prize money ($112,000 per gender). At the end of the meet series an additional US$262,000 per gender was awarded to the top eight men and women athletes based on their overall ranking using a point score incorporating placings and performance.{{Cite web |date=2022-08-24 |title=Swimming World Cup 2022 - Prize money |url=https://www.worldaquatics.com/news/2758671/www.worldaquatics.com/news/2758671/swimming-world-cup-2022-prize-money |access-date=2023-09-16 |website=World Aquatics |language=en}}

The 2023 event is notable for a number of reasons including a switch to long course (50m) format as a pre-Olympics year event, the event acting as a qualifying meet for both the forthcoming World Aquatics Championships in 2024 and Olympic Games in 2024, and the introduction of an "open" category in 50m and 100m events for transgender swimmers.{{Cite web |date=2023-08-16 |title=World Aquatics Debuts Open Category at Berlin Swimming World Cup 2023 |url=https://www.worldaquatics.com/news/3636298/www.worldaquatics.com/news/3636298/world-aquatics-debuts-open-category-at-berlin-swimming-world-cup-2023 |access-date=2023-09-16 |website=World Aquatics |language=en}} The "open" category however was shelved as there were no entries.{{Cite web |date=October 3, 2023 |title=No entries received for new 'open category' in World Cup meet |url=https://www.reuters.com/sports/no-entries-received-new-open-category-world-cup-meet-2023-10-03/ |website=Reuters}}{{Cite web |date=October 3, 2023 |title=No 'open category' entries at WC swimming event |url=https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/38554503/world-aquatics-no-entries-open-category-berlin-event |access-date= |website=ESPN.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=October 3, 2023 |title=Plans to allow for transgender swimmers at World Cup meet scrapped due to no entries |url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/aquatics/open-category-transgender-swimmers-world-cup-meet-fina-1.6985344 |website=CBC.ca}}

Events

Traditionally the events are the same for all meets but the competition order may vary, although this has varied from the 2021 resumption of the meet. All events are swum prelims/finals, with the exception of the 800m freestyle and 1500m freestyle which are swum as timed finals (fastest heat in the finals session). The meets are held over two or three days, with preliminary heats in the morning and finals in the evening. A noted exception to this style are the meets held in Brazil, where prelims have been in the evening with finals the following morning.

On most years, the races are held in short course pools, the exception recently being the season leading up to an Olympic year where events are swum in long course venues.

Current 2023 series events (to be swum in 50m pools):

  • Freestyle: 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, and 1500
  • Backstroke: 50, 100 and 200
  • Breaststroke: 50, 100 and 200
  • Butterfly: 50, 100 and 200
  • Individual medley: 200, and 400
  • Relays: 4 × 100 m freestyle (men and women), 4 x 200m freestyle (men and women), 4 × 100 m medley (men, women and mixed){{Cite web |title=Competition Info {{!}} FINA Official |url=https://www.worldaquatics.com/competitions/3305/world-aquatics-swimming-world-cup-2023/www.worldaquatics.com/competitions/3305/world-aquatics-swimming-world-cup-2023/info |access-date=2023-09-16 |website=World Aquatics |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Competition Info {{!}} FINA Official |url=https://www.worldaquatics.com/competitions/3306/world-aquatics-swimming-world-cup-2023/www.worldaquatics.com/competitions/3306/world-aquatics-swimming-world-cup-2023/info |access-date=2023-09-16 |website=World Aquatics |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Competition Info {{!}} FINA Official |url=https://www.worldaquatics.com/competitions/3307/world-aquatics-swimming-world-cup-2023/www.worldaquatics.com/competitions/3307/world-aquatics-swimming-world-cup-2023/info |access-date=2023-09-16 |website=World Aquatics |language=en}}

An 'open' category was created in 2023 after World Aquatics announced that trans women were banned from competing in the women's category if they had "experienced any part of male puberty beyond tanner stage two, or before [the] age [of] 12, whichever is later". The category was shelved after receiving "no entries".{{Cite web |last=Noyce |first=Eleanor |date=2023-10-04 |title=Not one person signed up for the 'open' category at the Swimming World Cup |url=https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/10/04/swimming-world-cup-open-category-trans/ |access-date=2023-10-04 |website=PinkNews |language=en-US}}

Winners

Source:{{cite web | url=https://www.worldaquatics.com/results?year=2024&month=latest&disciplines=SW | title=World Aquatics}}

One stage in 1979.{{cite web | url=https://intersportstats.com/competition_types/56 | title=InterSportStats}}{{cite web | url=https://intersportstats.com/competitions/3000000497 | title=InterSportStats}}

class="wikitable"
colspan=2| Season

!Name

!Nationality

rowspan=3| 1988–89
mencolspan=2| Winners in six events{{cite web|url=https://www.fina.org/sites/default/files/fswc-goldenbook2015_v2b.pdf|title=FINA Swimming World cup: Golden Book|date=2015|website=Fina.org|access-date=8 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019095722/https://www.fina.org/sites/default/files/fswc-goldenbook2015_v2b.pdf|archive-date=19 October 2016|url-status=dead}}
womencolspan=2| Winners in six events
rowspan=3| 1989–90
mencolspan=2| Winners in six events
womencolspan=2| Winners in six events
rowspan=3| 1991
mencolspan=2| Winners in six events[http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/2161.asp Moravcova Tops Final FINA World Cup Rankings; Balcerzak is Top American – January 29, 2001] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430234443/http://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/lane9/news/2161.asp|date=April 30, 2011}}. Swimming World Magazine: published 2001-01-29; retrieved 2009-06-13.
womencolspan=2| Winners in six events
rowspan=3| 1991–92
mencolspan=2| Winners in six events
womencolspan=2| Winners in six events
rowspan=3| 1993
mencolspan=2| Winners in six events
womencolspan=2| Winners in six events
rowspan=3| 1994
mencolspan=2| Winners in six events
womencolspan=2| Winners in six events
rowspan=3| 1995
mencolspan=2| Winners in six events
womencolspan=2| Winners in six events
rowspan=3| 1996
mencolspan=2| Winners in six events
womencolspan=2| Winners in six events
rowspan=3| 1997
mencolspan=2| Winners in six events
womencolspan=2| Winners in six events
rowspan=3| 1998
mencolspan=2| Winners in six events
womencolspan=2| Winners in six events
rowspan=3| 1998–99
mencolspan=2| Winners in six events
womencolspan=2| Winners in six events
rowspan=3| 1999–2000
mencolspan=2| Winners in 17 events
womencolspan=2| Winners in 17 events
rowspan=3| 2000–01
mencolspan=2| Winners in 13 events
womencolspan=2| Winners in 11 events
rowspan=3| 2001–02
menEd Moses{{USA}}
womenMartina Moravcová{{SVK}}
rowspan=3| 2002–03
menThomas Rupprath{{GER}}
womenAlison Sheppard{{GBR2}}
rowspan=3| 2003–04
menEd Moses (2){{USA}}
womenMartina Moravcová (2){{SVK}} (2)
rowspan=3| 2004–05
menRyk Neethling{{RSA}}
womenAnna-Karin Kammerling{{SWE}}
rowspan=3| 2005–06
menRyk Neethling (2){{RSA}}
womenTherese Alshammar{{SWE}}
rowspan=3| 2007
menRandall Bal{{USA}}
womenTherese Alshammar{{SWE}}
rowspan=3| 2008
menCameron van der Burgh{{RSA}}
womenMarieke Guehrer{{AUS}}
rowspan=3| 2009
menCameron van der Burgh{{RSA}}
womenJessica Hardy{{USA}}
rowspan=3| 2010
menThiago Pereira{{BRA}}
womenTherese Alshammar{{SWE}}
rowspan=3| 2011
menChad le Clos{{RSA}}
womenTherese Alshammar (4){{SWE}}
rowspan=3| 2012
menKenneth To{{AUS}}
womenKatinka Hosszú{{HUN}}
rowspan=3| 2013
menChad le Clos{{RSA}}
womenKatinka Hosszú{{HUN}}
rowspan=3| 2014
menChad le Clos{{RSA}}
womenKatinka Hosszú{{HUN}}
rowspan=3| 2015
menCameron van der Burgh (3){{RSA}}
womenKatinka Hosszú{{HUN}}
rowspan=3| 2016
menVladimir Morozov{{RUS}}
womenKatinka Hosszú (5){{HUN}} (5)
rowspan=3| 2017
menChad le Clos (4){{RSA}}
womenSarah Sjöström{{SWE}}
rowspan=3| 2018
menVladimir Morozov{{RUS}}
womenSarah Sjöström (2){{SWE}} (7)
rowspan=3| 2019
menVladimir Morozov (3){{RUS}} (3)
womenCate Campbell{{AUS}}
rowspan=3| 2021Kamardina, Olga (30 October 2021). [https://www.fina.org/news/2317522/heavy-favorites-keep-the-bar-high "Sates and McKeon topped overall ranking"]. FINA. Retrieved 5 November 2021.Dornan, Ben (31 October 2021). [https://swimswam.com/mckeon-sates-toussaint-shields-earn-over-100k-from-fina-2021-world-cup/ "McKeon, Sates, Toussaint, Shields Earn Over $100K From FINA 2021 World Cup"]. SwimSwam. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
menMatthew Sates{{RSA}} (10)
womenEmma McKeon{{AUS}}
rowspan=3| 2022
menDylan Carter{{TTO}}
womenBeata Nelson{{USA}}
rowspan=3| 2023
menQin Haiyang{{CHN}}
womenKaylee McKeown{{AUS}} (5)
rowspan=3| 2024
menLéon Marchand{{FRA}}
womenKate Douglass{{USA}} (6)

Most wins

{{updated|21 November 2022}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.fina.org/sites/default/files/general/swc_2017_final.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-03-30 |archive-date=2017-08-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170822163931/http://www.fina.org/sites/default/files/general/swc_2017_final.pdf |url-status=dead}}

  • Active swimmers*
  • r = relays

class="wikitable sortable"
No.

!Men

!Country

!Wins

!Women

!Country

!Wins

1

|Chad le Clos

{{RSA}}

|151*

|Katinka Hosszú

{{HUN}}

|305 + 3(r)*{{Cite web|url=https://swimswam.com/katinka-hosszu-wraps-up-300th-gold-medal-with-200fly-win-at-world-cup-kazan/|title = Katinka Hosszu Wraps up 300th World Cup Gold with 200 Fly Win in Kazan|date = November 2019}}

2

|Vladimir Morozov

{{RUS}}

|109 + 14(r)*

|Martina Moravcová

{{SVK}}

|105

3

|Roland Schoeman

{{RSA}}

|64

|Therese Alshammar

{{SWE}}

|93

4

|Cameron van der Burgh

{{RSA}}

|59

|Alia Atkinson

{{JAM}}

|73

5

|Daiya Seto

{{JPN}}

|55*

|Sarah Sjöström

{{SWE}}

|72*

6

|Randall Bal

{{USA}}

|54

|Yana Klochkova

{{UKR}}

|60

7

|Mark Foster

{{GBR}}

|53

|Mette Jacobsen

{{DEN}}

|52

8

|Christian Keller

{{GER}}

|53

|Antje Buschschulte

{{GER}}

|52

9

|Ryk Neethling

{{RSA}}

|43

|Sandra Voelker

{{GER}}

|45

10

|Alexander Popov

{{RUS}}

|42

|Franziska Van Almsick

{{GER}}

|42

Venues

class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%; width: 95%;"

! Country !! City

! 88

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92

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01

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! 22

!23

!24

! Total

align=center

|rowspan=3 align=left|{{AUS}}

|align=left|Hobart

●●|

|

|

2
align=center

|align=left|Melbourne

●●[https://web.archive.org/web/20091117112021/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2002/melbourne2002/index.htm ●]●●|

|

|

5
align=center

|align=left|Sydney

●●●●●●|

|

|

6
align=center

|rowspan=2 align=left|{{BRA}}

|align=left|Belo Horizonte

[http://cbda.org.br/especiais/copanatacao2004/index.php ●]●●●●|

|

|

5
align=center

|align=left|Rio de Janeiro

●●●●●●●●|

|

|

7
align=center

|rowspan=4 align=left|{{CAN}}

|align=left|Edmonton

●●●●|

|

|

4
align=center

|align=left|Montreal

●●|

|

|

2
align=center

|align=left|Toronto

●|●

|

|

2
align=center

|align=left|Victoria

●|

|

|

1
align=center

| rowspan="3" align="left" |{{CHN}}

|align=left|Beijing

●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●|

|

|

15
align="center"

|align=left|Jinan

[http://www.fina.org/event/fina-swimming-world-cup-2019 ●]|

|

1
align="center"

| align="left" |Shanghai

●●●●[https://web.archive.org/web/20100617002651/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2002/shanghai2002/index.htm ●]|

|

|●

6
align="center"

| align="left" |{{FIN}}

| align="left" |Espoo

●●●|

|

|

3
align="center"

| rowspan="2" align="left" |{{FRA}}

| align="left" |Chartres-Paris

●●|

|

|

2
align="center"

| align="left" |Paris

●●●●●●[http://www.swimnews.com/Magazine/1996/febmag96/wc6prsresjan96.shtml ●]

| ●

●●●●●●|

|

|

14
align="center"

| rowspan="4" align="left" |{{GER}}

| align="left" |Berlin

●as East Berlin●●●[https://web.archive.org/web/20110430191808/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2002/berlin2002/index.htm ●]●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●

|●

|

22
align="center"

| align="left" |Bonn

●●●●|

|

|

5
align="center"

| align="left" |Gelsenkirchen

●●●●●●●|

|

|

7
align="center"

| align="left" |Rostock

●|

|

|

1
align="center"

| rowspan="4" align="left" |{{flag|Great Britain}}

| align="left" |Glasgow

●|

|

|

1
align="center"

| align="left" |Leicester

●●|

|

|

2
align="center"

| align="left" |London

●|

|

|

1
align="center"

| align="left" |Sheffield

●●●●●●●●●|

|

|

9
align="center"

| align="left" |{{GRE}}

| align="left" |Athens

|●

|

1
align="center"

| align="left" |{{HKG}}

| align="left" |Hong Kong

●●●●●●●●●●●|

|

|

11
align="center"

| align="left" |{{HUN}}

| align="left" |Budapest

●●●|●

|

4
align="center"

| rowspan="5" align="left" |{{ITA}}

| align="left" |Desenzano

●●|

|

|

2
align="center"

| align="left" |Imperia

●●●●●●[https://web.archive.org/web/20110430191804/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2002/imperia2002/index.htm ●]|

|

|

7
align="center"

| align="left" |Milan

●●●|

|

|

3
align="center"

| align="left" |Saint-Vincent

●|

|

|

1
align="center"

| align="left" |Venice

●|

|

|

1
align="center"

| rowspan="1" align="left" |{{JPN}}

| align="left" |Tokyo

●●●●●●●●●

|●

|

|

10
align="center"

| align="left" |{{NED}}

| align="left" |Eindhoven

●●●|

|

|

3
align="center"

| align="left" |{{QAT}}

| align="left" |Doha

●●●●●●●●●|

|

9
align="center"

| rowspan="3" align="left" |{{RUS}}

| align="left" |Moscow

●●●●●●●●●●●●●●|

|

|

14
align="center"

| align="left" |Saint Petersburg

●as Leningrad●|

|

|

2
align="center"

| align="left" |Kazan

●●●|

|

3
align="center"

| align="left" |{{SIN}}

| align="left" |Singapore

●●●●●●●●●●●●●|

|●

13
align="center"

| align="left" |{{RSA}}

| align="left" |Durban

●●●●●●|

|

|

6
align="center"

| rowspan="2" align="left" |{{KOR}}

| align="left" |Daejon

●●●|

|

|

3
Incheon

|

|

|

|

|

|

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|

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|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|●

|

align="center"

| align="left" |{{ESP}}

| align="left" |Palma de Mallorca

●|

|

|

1
align="center"

| rowspan="3" align="left" |{{SWE}}

| align="left" |Gothenburg

●●●|

|

|

3
align="center"

| align="left" |Malmö

●●●●●●●●●●|

|

|

10
align="center"

| align="left" |Stockholm

●[https://web.archive.org/web/20091117112430/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2002/stockholm2002/index.htm ●]●●●●●●●●●●|

|

|

12
align="center"

| align="left" |{{nowrap|{{UAE}}}}

| align="left" |Dubai

●●●●●●|

|

|

6
align="center"

| rowspan="5" align="left" |{{USA}}

| align="left" |College Station, TX

●|

|

|

1
align="center"

| align="left" |Indianapolis, IN

●|●

|

|

2
align="center"

| align="left" |New York, NY (East Meadow)

●[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927204257/http://www.omegatiming.com/swimming/racearchives/2002/new_york2002/index.htm ●]●●●|

|

|

5
align="center"

| align="left" |Orlando, FL

●|

|

|

1
align="center"

| align="left" |Washington, D.C.

●●|

|

|

2
colspan="2" | Total887877788912121097888775778878987

! 7

43

!

!

References

{{Reflist}}

External links

  • {{cite web|url=http://www.fina-arena-worldcup.com/competition/wcseries.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091019062849/http://www.fina-arena-worldcup.com/competition/wcseries.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 October 2009|title=Fina-Arena-Worldcup Berlin 2008|date=19 October 2009|access-date=8 April 2018}}
  • {{cite web|url=http://www.swimrankings.net/index.php?page=meetSelect&selectPage=BYTYPE&meetType=8|title=Swimrankings - Swimming Rankings and Results - Worldwide, International Swim Sport|website=Swimrankings.net|access-date=8 April 2018}}
  • {{cite web|url=https://swimswam.com/katinka-hosszu-becomes-first-swimmer-200-world-cup-wins|title=Katinka Hosszu Becomes First Swimmer to 200 World Cup Wins|date=10 October 2016|website=Swimswam.com|access-date=8 April 2018}}
  • https://intersportstats.com/competition_types/54
  • https://intersportstats.com/competition_types/55
  • https://intersportstats.com/competition_types/88
  • https://intersportstats.com/competition_types/57

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