2019 FINA Champions Swim Series – Budapest: Day 2 Money Table

FINA CHAMPIONS SWIM SERIES 2019 #2 – BUDAPEST

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.)

 

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RECOVERINGSWIMCOACH
4 years ago

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 »

Yozhik
Reply to  RECOVERINGSWIMCOACH
4 years ago

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 »

Dan
4 years ago

is there a list with combined earnings from the first 2 stops?

Nswim
4 years ago

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

Yozhik
4 years ago

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 »

JimSwim22
Reply to  Yozhik
4 years ago

I wish the pro swimmers too control of their sport more like tennis and golf

Thomas
4 years ago

Throw my man Chase more races

200 SIDESTROKE B CUT
4 years ago

Decent weekend for $jo$trom.

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Anne Lepesant is the mother of four daughters, all of whom swam in college. With an undergraduate degree from Princeton (where she was an all-Ivy tennis player) and an MBA from INSEAD, she worked for many years in the financial industry, both in France and the U.S. Anne is currently …

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