The 2021 FINA Swimming World Cup kicks-off in Berlin (GER) on Friday October 1 for a three-day action-packed 25m swimming event until Sunday October 3. Heats will be held in the morning from 10:00 and finals in the evening from 18:00. About 240 of the world’s best short course swimmers have registered to take part in the meet.
With no less than seven Olympic
medals collected in Tokyo 2020 (4 gold and 3 bronze), Australia’s most decorated
Olympian Emma McKeon highlights the Berlin entries. After an incredible summer,
the star is setting sights on the SWC 2021 for which a total prize money of US$
1'452'000 will be available.
The strong Australian delegation in
Berlin will also be represented by Zac Incerti, Matthew Temple, Madison Wilson,
Kyle Chalmers, Leah Neale and Minna Atherton.
Other big names to be expected in
Berlin are: open water Olympic champion and national hero Florian Wellbrock,
Arno Kamminga from the Netherlands, South Africa’s butterfly king Chad Le Clos
and Blake Pieroni of the USA.
In the women’s pool, Canada’s Olympic
champion Kylie Masse and teammate Margaret Macneil will be there as well as
Sweden’s Michelle Coleman and Lydia Jacoby (USA). Russia’s swimming star Yuliya
Efimova and Kira Toussaint of the Netherlands will also ensure a spectacular
show at Berlin's Europasportpark indoor swimming pool.
A sum of US$ 224'000 to the top 20
athletes will be available for each stage, and a total of US$ 556'000 will be
given to the top 10 athletes at the end of the series based on the overall
ranking.
Scoring system
Athletes collect a number of points
at each leg based on their results. The overall winners (man and woman) are the
athletes with the highest points after completion of all the meets from the
series. The best performance in combination with achievements in different
events, not only among swimmers of the same discipline but among all the
athletes competing at the series, can be a winning tactic to gain the maximum
number of points.
To find out more about the scoring
system, please follow this link. https://resources.fina.org/fina/document/2021/09/02/669e168e-70f4-436c-b01d-7818e9f56faf/SWC_Summons2021_for-web.pdf
The competition’s schedule unfolds as
follows:
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The circuit next stops in Budapest
(HUN) from October 7-9, while Doha (QAT) and Kazan (RUS) will stage the two
remaining meets on October 21-23 and October 28-30.
All four stops of the 2021 World Cup
will be competed in 25m-pools and are qualifying events for the postponed 15th
FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) to be held in Abu Dhabi (UAE) from
December 16-21, 2021.
2021 FINA Swimming World Cup
calendar:
1.
Berlin (GER) – October 1-3
2.
Budapest (HUN) – October 7-9
3.
Doha (QAT) - October 21-23
4.
Kazan (RUS) - October 28-30
Vladimir Morozov (RUS), to be present
in Berlin, and Cate Campbell (AUS) were the winner of the 2019 edition of the
FINA Swimming World Cup.
2019 overall MEN
Vladimir Morozov (RUS) 333 pts
Danas Rapsys (LTU) 234 pts
Arno Kamminga (NED) 195 pts
2019 overall WOMEN
Cate Campbell (AUS) 114 pts
Katinka Hosszu (HUN) 312 pts
Michelle Coleman (SWE) 174 pts
Fédération Internationale de Natation
(FINA)
The Fédération Internationale de
Natation, founded in 1908, is the governing body for aquatics worldwide. FINA's
five discipline Swimming, Open Water Swimming, Diving, Water Polo and Artistic
Swimming - are all included in the Olympic programme. High Diving made its
first appearance in FINA events at the 2013 FINA World Championships. FINA
counts 209 affiliated National Federations on the five continents and has its
headquarters in Lausanne (SUI).
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