The FINA Swimming World Cup is an international series of short course swimming meets organized by FINA, the International Federation for swimming. Launched in 1988, the FINA Swimming World Cup gathers world-class swimmers in a series of two-day meets organised between August and November each year. Across nine locations, the circuit is structured in clusters and distributes a total of prize money reaching US$2.5 million.
The 2007 FINA Swimming World Cup occurred in autumn 2007. It was an international series of short course (25m) swimming competitions organised by FINA.
The FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup 2008 was held in October and November 2008. The meet scheduling matched that of the 2007 series, with all meets held short course metres (25 m) format.
The 2009 FINA Swimming World Cup was a series of five short course (25 m) swimming meets, held in October and November 2009.
The 2010 FINA Swimming World Cup was a series of seven short-course meters (25m) meets, held from September-early November 2010. The 2010 series was again titled sponsored by Arena.
Chad Guy Bertrand le Clos, OIS is a South African competitive swimmer who is an Olympic, World and Commonwealth Games champion. He is the African record, Commonwealth record, and South African record holder in the short course and long course 200-metre butterfly and the short course 100-metre butterfly. He also holds the African records and South African records in the long course 200-metre freestyle and 100-metre butterfly, and the short course 100-metre freestyle. Formerly, he was a world record holder in the short course 100-metre butterfly and 200-metre butterfly.
Thomas Allen Shields is an American competitive swimmer. He is a two-time Olympian and the current American record-holder in the short course 50-meter butterfly and 200-meter butterfly. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the 4×100-meter medley relay, swimming the butterfly leg of the relay in the prelims. Later the same year, he became the first American to swim faster than 44 seconds in the 100-yard butterfly, setting a new American record of 43.84 seconds.
The 2011 FINA Swimming World Cup was a series of seven, two-day, short course meets in seven different cities in October and November 2011. Arena was again the title sponsor for the series, with Omega serving as official timer.
The 2012 FINA Swimming World Cup was a series of eight, two-day, short course meets in eight different cities in October and November 2012. Arena was again the title sponsor for the series, with Omega serving as official timer.
Daiya Seto is a Japanese professional swimmer who specializes in individual medley, butterfly, breaststroke, and freestyle events. He won the gold medal in the 400-metre individual medley at the 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2021 world short course championships, as well as at the 2013, 2015, and 2019 world long course championships. Seto holds the world record in the short course 400-metre individual medley.
The 2013 FINA Swimming World Cup was a series of eight, two-day, short course meets in eight different cities between August and November 2013. Arena was again the title sponsor for the series, with Omega serving as official timer.
Emma Jennifer McKeon, is an Australian competitive swimmer. She is a four-time world record holder, one current and three former, in the 4x100 metre freestyle relay. Her total career haul of 11 Olympic medals following the 2020 Olympic Games made her Australia's most decorated Olympian and included one gold medal from the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and four gold medals from the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. With four gold and three bronze medals she was the most decorated athlete across all sports at the 2020 Summer Olympics, and tied for the most medals won by a woman in a single Olympic Games. She has also won 17 medals, including four gold medals, at the World Aquatics Championships; and a record 20 medals, including 14 gold, at the Commonwealth Games.
Anton Mikhailovich Chupkov is a Russian competitive swimmer. He is the European record holder in the long course 200 metre breaststroke and the Russian record holder in the long course 100 metre breaststroke. He formerly held the world record in the long course 200 metre breaststroke. At the 2015 European Games he won four gold medals in individual and relay events. He won the bronze medal in the 200 metre breaststroke at the 2016 Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal in the 200 metre breaststroke at the 2017 and 2019 World Aquatics Championships.
The 2015 FINA Swimming World Cup was a series of eight, two-day, long course swimming meets in eight different cities between August and November 2015. Airweave was the title sponsor for the series, with Omega serving as official timer. This was the first World Cup edition held in a long-course pool, allowing swimmers to prepare for next year's Olympics, which are also held in long course.
Kyle Chalmers, is an Australian competitive swimmer who specialises in freestyle and butterfly events. He is the world record holder in the short course 100 metre freestyle. He is also the Oceanian record and the Australian record holder in the short course 50 metre butterfly and 50 metre freestyle events.
The 2016 FINA Swimming World Cup was a series of nine two-day meets in nine different cities between August and October 2016. After switching to long-course pools in the previous year's pre-Olympic season, this edition returned to the usual short-course format. Like the previous short course World Cup in 2014, 36 events were scheduled. The total amount of prize money was US$ 2,178,000. The first meet started 13 days after the final day of the Olympic pool swimming program.
The 2017 FINA Swimming World Cup was a series of eight two-day meets in eight different cities between August and November 2017. This edition was held in the usual short-course format. Like the previous short course World Cup in 2016, 36 events were scheduled.
The 2018 FINA Swimming World Cup was a series of seven three-day meets in seven different cities between September and November 2018. This edition integrated meets held in 25m-pool as well as meets in 50m-pool.
The 2019 FINA Swimming World Cup was a series of seven three-day meets in seven different cities between August and November 2019. This edition was held in the long course format.
Swimming at the 2022 World Aquatics Championships took place from 18 to 25 June 2022. The United States won the most gold medals (17) and overall medal count (45) in this discipline. Katie Ledecky of the United States and Léon Marchand of France earned FINA Swimmer of the Meet honors based on a scoring system that awards points for top-four finishes.
Doha, Qatar 
Dubai, United Arab Emirates 
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Moscow, Russia 
Beijing, China 
Tokyo, Japan 
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