World Aquatics Swimming World Cup

Swimming World Cup
Status	Active
Genre	Sports event
Date	Midyear
Frequency	Annual
Inaugurated	1988
Most recent	2024
Organised by	World Aquatics
Website	World Aquatics

Marine Messe Hall A, Swimming & Artistic Swimming Venue, Fukuoka, 2023.

The venue for the FINA Swimming World Cup in Eindhoven before start of the event.

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. ^[1] 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. ^[2]

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. ^[3] The "open" category however was shelved as there were no entries. ^{[4] [5] [6]}

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) ^{[7] [8] [9]}

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". ^{[4] [5] [6] [10]}

Winners

Source: ^[11]

One stage in 1979. ^{[12] [13]}

Season		Name	Nationality
1988–89
	men	Winners in six events [14]
	women	Winners in six events [14]
1989–90
	men	Winners in six events
	women	Winners in six events
1991
	men	Winners in six events [15]
	women	Winners in six events [15]
1991–92
	men	Winners in six events [14]
	women	Winners in six events [14]
1993
	men	Winners in six events [14]
	women	Winners in six events [14]
1994
	men	Winners in six events [14]
	women	Winners in six events [14]
1995
	men	Winners in six events [14]
	women	Winners in six events [14]
1996
	men	Winners in six events [14]
	women	Winners in six events [14]
1997
	men	Winners in six events [14]
	women	Winners in six events [14]
1998
	men	Winners in six events [14]
	women	Winners in six events [14]
1998–99
	men	Winners in six events [14]
	women	Winners in six events [14]
1999–2000
	men	Winners in 17 events [14]
	women	Winners in 17 events [14]
2000–01
	men	Winners in 13 events [14]
	women	Winners in 11 events [14]
2001–02
	men	Ed Moses	United States
	women	Martina Moravcová	Slovakia
2002–03
	men	Thomas Rupprath	Germany
	women	Alison Sheppard	Great Britain
2003–04
	men	Ed Moses (2)	United States
	women	Martina Moravcová (2)	Slovakia (2)
2004–05
	men	Ryk Neethling	South Africa
	women	Anna-Karin Kammerling	Sweden
2005–06
	men	Ryk Neethling (2)	South Africa
	women	Therese Alshammar	Sweden
2007
	men	Randall Bal	United States
	women	Therese Alshammar	Sweden
2008
	men	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa
	women	Marieke Guehrer	Australia
2009
	men	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa
	women	Jessica Hardy	United States
2010
	men	Thiago Pereira	Brazil
	women	Therese Alshammar	Sweden
2011
	men	Chad le Clos	South Africa
	women	Therese Alshammar (4)	Sweden
2012
	men	Kenneth To	Australia
	women	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary
2013
	men	Chad le Clos	South Africa
	women	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary
2014
	men	Chad le Clos	South Africa
	women	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary
2015
	men	Cameron van der Burgh (3)	South Africa
	women	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary
2016
	men	Vladimir Morozov	Russia
	women	Katinka Hosszú (5)	Hungary
2017
	men	Chad le Clos (4)	South Africa
	women	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden
2018
	men	Vladimir Morozov	Russia
	women	Sarah Sjöström (2)	Sweden (7)
2019
	men	Vladimir Morozov (3)	Russia (3)
	women	Cate Campbell	Australia
2021 [16] [17]
	men	Matthew Sates	South Africa (10)
	women	Emma McKeon	Australia
2022
	men	Dylan Carter	Trinidad and Tobago
	women	Beata Nelson	United States
2023
	men	Qin Haiyang	China
	women	Kaylee McKeown	Australia (5)
2024
	men	Léon Marchand	France
	women	Kate Douglass	United States
2025
	men	Hubert Kós	Hungary (6)
	women	Kate Douglass (2)	United States (7)

Most wins

As of 21 November 2022 ^[18]

• Active swimmers*
• r = relays

No.	Men	Country	Wins	Women	Country	Wins
1	Chad le Clos	South Africa	151*	Katinka Hosszú	Hungary	305 + 3(r)* [19]
2	Vladimir Morozov	Russia	109 + 14(r)*	Martina Moravcová	Slovakia	105
3	Roland Schoeman	South Africa	64	Therese Alshammar	Sweden	93
4	Cameron van der Burgh	South Africa	59	Alia Atkinson	Jamaica	73
5	Daiya Seto	Japan	55*	Sarah Sjöström	Sweden	72*
6	Randall Bal	United States	54	Yana Klochkova	Ukraine	60
7	Mark Foster	United Kingdom	53	Mette Jacobsen	Denmark	52
8	Christian Keller	Germany	53	Antje Buschschulte	Germany	52
9	Ryk Neethling	South Africa	43	Sandra Voelker	Germany	45
10	Alexander Popov	Russia	42	Franziska Van Almsick	Germany	42

Venues

Country	City	88 89	89 90	91	91 92	93	94	95	96	97	98	98 99	99 00	00 01	01 02	02 03	03 04	04 05	05 06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	21	22	23	24	25	Total
Australia	Hobart											●	●																									2
	Melbourne													●	●	●	●	●																				5
	Sydney										●	●	●						●	●	●																	6
Brazil	Belo Horizonte																● Archived 6 May 2006 at the Wayback Machine	●	●	●	●																	5
	Rio de Janeiro										●	●	●	●	●	●						●	●															7
Canada	Edmonton											●	●	●	●																							4
	Montreal		●		●																																	2
	Toronto	●																																●			●	3
	Victoria			●																																		1
China	Beijing					●	●		●	●	●	●											●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●							15
	Jinan																															●						1
	Shanghai					●							●	●	●	●																				●		6
Finland	Espoo							●	●	●																												3
France	Chartres-Paris																											●	●									2
	Paris	●	●		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●																						14
Germany	Berlin	● [20]	● [20]										●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●			●	●		●	●	●	●			22
	Bonn	●	●	●	●																																	5
	Gelsenkirchen					●	●	●	●	●	●	●																										7
	Rostock			●																																		1
Great Britain	Glasgow									●																												1
	Leicester		●		●																																	2
	London	●																																				1
	Sheffield			●		●	●	●	●		●	●	●	●																								9
Greece	Athens																																		●			1
Hong Kong	Hong Kong						●	●	●	●	●	●	●														●	●	●	●								11
Hungary	Budapest																														●	●	●		●			4
Italy	Desenzano		●				●																															2
	Imperia								●	●	●	●	●	●	●																							7
	Milan			●	●	●																																3
	Saint-Vincent							●																														1
	Venice	●																																				1
Japan	Tokyo																						●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●						10
Netherlands	Eindhoven																									●				●	●							3
Qatar	Doha																								●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●					9
Russia	Moscow																●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●								14
	Saint Petersburg			● [21]	●																																	2
	Kazan																														●	●	●					3
Singapore	Singapore																			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●				●		13
South Africa	Durban																●	●	●	●	●	●																6
South Korea	Daejon																●	●	●																			3
	Incheon																																			●		1
Spain	Palma de Mallorca				●																																	1
Sweden	Gothenburg	●	●																				●															3
	Malmö			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●																									10
	Stockholm													●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●													12
United Arab Emirates	Dubai																						●		●	●	●	●	●									6
United States	Carmel, IN																																				●	1
	College Station, TX											●																										1
	Indianapolis, IN	●																																●				2
	New York, NY (East Meadow)														●	●	●	●	●																			5
	Orlando, FL		●																																			1
	Washington, D.C.												●	●																								2
	Westmont, IL																																				●	1
Total		8	8	7	8	7	7	7	8	8	9	12	12	10	9	7	8	8	8	7	7	5	7	7	8	8	7	8	9	8	7	7	4	3	3	3	3

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21. as Leningrad

External links

• "Fina-Arena-Worldcup Berlin 2008". 19 October 2009. Archived from the original on 19 October 2009. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
• "Swimrankings - Swimming Rankings and Results - Worldwide, International Swim Sport". Swimrankings.net. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
• "Katinka Hosszu Becomes First Swimmer to 200 World Cup Wins". Swimswam.com. 10 October 2016. Retrieved 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