FINA CHAMPIONS SWIM SERIES 2019 #2 – BUDAPEST
- May 11-12, 2019
- Budapest, Hungary
- LCM (50m)
- Saturday – 7:30 pm local / 1:30 pm ET Opening Ceremony, 8:00 start
- Sunday – 7:30 pm local / 1:30 om ET start
- FINA Champions Series Info
- Entry List
- Live Results (Omega)
With 5 individual gold medals and a relay silver, Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom dominated the earnings table at the second stop of the FINA Champions Swim Series in Budapest. Sjostrom added $33,000 on Sunday to the $20,000 she had won on Saturday, bringing her weekend total to $53,000. Katinka Hosszu had a big second day with three individual golds of her own. She wrapped up the weekend with the second-highest total earnings for the Budapest stop, with $38,000. Russia’s Yuliya Efimova won all three of the breaststroke events over the two-day meet and added a third-place relay finish to bring her earnings to $32,000.
Once again, those swimmers who took home the most money were those who were invited to race multiple events. Katie Meili, Farida Osman, Penny Oleksiak, and Pernille Blume all cleared $20,000 for the weekend without winning an individual event, for example.
| Individual Events | Relays | |||||||||||
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | Individual Prize Money | Relay Prize Money | Total Earned | ||
| Sarah Sjostrom | Sweden | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | $50,000 | $3,000 | $53,000 |
| Katinka Hosszu | Hungary | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $38,000 | $0 | $38,000 |
| Yuliya Efimova | Russia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | $30,000 | $2,000 | $32,000 |
| Danas Rapsys | Lithuania | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 | $0 | $25,000 |
| Katie Meili | USA | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $19,000 | $4,000 | $23,000 |
| Anastasiia Fesikova | Russia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $18,000 | $4,000 | $22,000 |
| Chad le Clos | South Africa | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $21,000 | $0 | $21,000 |
| Farida Osman | Egypt | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $21,000 | $0 | $21,000 |
| Penny Oleksiak | Canada | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $17,000 | $4,000 | $21,000 |
| Pernille Blume | Denmark | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $21,000 | $0 | $21,000 |
| Evgeny Rylov | Russia | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $20,000 | $0 | $20,000 |
| Molly Hannis | USA | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $19,000 | $0 | $19,000 |
| Matt Grevers | USA | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | $16,000 | $3,000 | $19,000 |
| Emily Seebohm | Australia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | $17,000 | $2,000 | $19,000 |
| Kristof Milak | Hungary | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $18,000 | $0 | $18,000 |
| Anton Chupkov | Russia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $18,000 | $0 | $18,000 |
| Laszlo Cseh | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $11,000 | $5,000 | $16,000 |
| Vlad Morozov | Russia | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $12,000 | $4,000 | $16,000 |
| Kliment Kolesnikov | Russia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | $16,000 | $0 | $16,000 |
| Michael Andrew | USA | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $12,000 | $4,000 | $16,000 |
| Ben Proud | Great Britain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $15,000 | $0 | $15,000 |
| Fabio Scozzoli | Italy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $15,000 | $0 | $15,000 |
| Etiene Medeiros | Brazil | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | $12,000 | $3,000 | $15,000 |
| Siobhan O’Connor | Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $11,000 | $4,000 | $15,000 |
| Federica Pellegrini | Italy | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $14,000 | $0 | $14,000 |
| Jeremy Desplanches | Switzerland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $10,000 | $4,000 | $14,000 |
| Aleksandr Krasnykh | Russia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $14,000 | $0 | $14,000 |
| Justin Ress | USA | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $10,000 | $4,000 | $14,000 |
| Georgia Davies | Great Britain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | $13,000 | $0 | $13,000 |
| Ajna Kesely | Hungary | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | $10,000 | $2,000 | $12,000 |
| Pieter Timmers | Belgium | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | $10,000 | $2,000 | $12,000 |
| Holly Hibbott | Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | $6,000 | $5,000 | $11,000 |
| Xu Jiayu | China | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $11,000 | $0 | $11,000 |
| Jacob Pebley | USA | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | $8,000 | $3,000 | $11,000 |
| Li Bingjie | China | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $10,000 | $0 | $10,000 |
| Margherita Panziera | Italy | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $10,000 | $0 | $10,000 |
| Nicholas Santos | Brazil | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $10,000 | $0 | $10,000 |
| Mehdy Metella | France | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | $8,000 | $2,000 | $10,000 |
| Joao Gomes Junior | Brazil | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | $10,000 | $0 | $10,000 |
| Philip Heintz | Germany | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | $6,000 | $3,000 | $9,000 |
| Imogen Clark | Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | $6,000 | $3,000 | $9,000 |
| Wang Jianjiahe | China | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $8,000 | $0 | $8,000 |
| Masato Sakai | Japan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $8,000 | $0 | $8,000 |
| Bruno Fratus | Brazil | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $8,000 | $0 | $8,000 |
| Eszter Bekesi | Hungary | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $8,000 | $0 | $8,000 |
| Andrii Govorov | Russia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $8,000 | $0 | $8,000 |
| Chase Kalisz | USA | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $8,000 | $0 | $8,000 |
| Mykhailo Romanchuk | Ukraine | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $8,000 | $0 | $8,000 |
| Franziska Hentke | Germany | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | $8,000 | $0 | $8,000 |
| Ippei Watanabe | Japan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $8,000 | $0 | $8,000 |
| Dmitriy Balandin | Kazakhstan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | $6,000 | $2,000 | $8,000 |
| Seoyeong Kim | South Korea | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $8,000 | $0 | $8,000 |
| Felipe Lima | Brazil | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $8,000 | $0 | $8,000 |
| Ross Murdoch | Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $6,000 | $0 | $6,000 |
| Dominik Kosma | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $6,000 | $0 | $6,000 |
| Boglarka Kapas | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $6,000 | $0 | $6,000 |
| Robert Glinta | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $6,000 | $0 | $6,000 |
| Veronika Andrusenko | Russia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $6,000 | $0 | $6,000 |
| Dana Vollmer | USA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 | $0 | $5,000 |
| Anthony Ervin | USA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 | $0 | $5,000 |
| Katalin Burian | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 | $0 | $5,000 |
| Wang Shun | China | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 | $0 | $5,000 |
| Kevin Cordes | USA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 | $0 | $5,000 |
| Josh Prenot | USA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | $5,000 | $0 | $5,000 |
| Peter Bernek | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 | $0 | $5,000 |
| Alys Margaret Thomas | Great Britain | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 | $0 | $5,000 |
| Piero Codia | Brazil | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 | $0 | $5,000 |
| Zsuzsanna Jakabos | Hungary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 | $0 | $5,000 |
| TOTALS | 28 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 | $812,000 | $72,000 | $884,000 | |
As a reminder, prize money is awarded as follows:
| Individual | Relay | |
| 1st | $10,000 | $16,000 |
| 2nd | $8,000 | $12,000 |
| 3rd | $6,000 | $8,000 |
| 4th | $5,000 | TBD |
FINA has decided to award prize money to fourth-place relays and will retroactively include the mixed relays from Guangzhou. Originally, FINA had proposed $2,000 for the fourth relays but did not mention awards beyond third place in its final documentation. (We do not yet know how much money will be awarded for these relays but will update our tables when we find out.)
YOZHIK, the income parity will improve the once the casual and non-swim fans watch the meets and patronize the sponsors. I watched a portion of the meet on Saturday. Knowledgeable swim fans might sit through the commercials, human interest stories, and the Vegas style intros, but the rest will not. Try watching a televised track meet that features star athletes like Allyson Felix and Galen Rupp. The footage switches quickly from track events to field events. It can break from a 10k run to cover a record attempt at the long jump, sneak in a quick commercial, and get back to the 10k finish. That attracts the non-fans, much like golf coverage hooks in the hackers (it always breaks away… Read more »
Interesting. I would also add that watching swimming competitions for those who are not involved (relatives, former swimmers, coaches, etc) is pretty much like uneducated in art person visiting art gallery. Such a person may not understand what it makes different between two paintings and what kind of talent and technique mastery required to create a masterpiece. If in track meet spectators can actually picture themselves running, jumping, throwing something so they can appreciate the difference between their abilities and what they see on the field then in swimming they mostly have no clue of how outstanding or even unique the result can be. I remember taking my friend who isn’t a swimmer to watch Ledecky’s 15:03 race in 1650yard… Read more »
is there a list with combined earnings from the first 2 stops?
The only thing that I don’t like about this format is that it doesn’t give way to a lot of up-and-coming swimmers… but other than that it’s been great
During last seven months by the end of May FINA will pay Sjostrom a half of a million dollars prize money. It isn’t that much if to compare to sports with large stadiums and almost 24/7 tv and other media coverage. But what makes FINA really different in this regard is that behind a few swimmers with more or less decent compensation there is a gap so huge that a level of earnings for the rest of swimmers is below poverty level in developed countries. Is it because the management of international swimming isn’t capable to make a sport of swimming a profession profitable enough for the middle level swimmer to support living. Or it is the specific of this… Read more »
I wish the pro swimmers too control of their sport more like tennis and golf
Throw my man Chase more races
Decent weekend for $jo$trom.