2025 SWIMMING WORLD CUP – CARMEL
- October 10-12, 2025
- Carmel, Indiana
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The first day of the swimming World Cup went off yesterday, and we have analyzed the current World Cup leaders after day one of the first stop.
Thanks to SwimSwam commenter GOATKeown for doing a lot of the legwork on the women’s side.
The World Cup series has prize money bonuses for athletes who are declared the “winners” of each stop and an additional bonus for the athlete who is declared the overall winner. This is determined based on an athlete’s top three events from each stop for a maximum of nine events.
Points are awarded for every finals swim with 1st place receiving 10 points, 2nd place receiving 8, and 3rd receiving 6. Athletes also get additional points based on the World Aquatics point system. A 990 point swim will award the athlete an additional 9.9 points. A 980 point swim would be 9.8 and that trend continues.
You can read more about the point system here.
Last season, American Kate Douglass won the overall award on the women’s side while she and Regan Smith split the stop bonuses.
On the men’s side, Leon Marchand won the overall winner while he and Noe Ponti split the stop bonuses.
Last year, both the men’s and women’s swimmers won all nine of their possible events, but that is not always the case, particularly on the men’s side.
It looks like the women’s meet will require nine event wins for an athlete to be in the running for the overall crown, but it is important to remember that Summer McIntosh is supposed to attend the next two stops and she will almost certainly throw a wrench in some of the rankings.
The men’s meet is up in the air as well with Marchand out of the final two stops, and it might not require nine event wins in order to walk home with the crown.
Here is where the athletes stack up after day one (event winners only):
Women
- 19.7 — Kaylee McKeown (AUS) and Regan Smith (USA)
- 19.6 — Kate Douglass (USA)
- 19.5 — Gretchen Walsh (USA)
- 19.4 — Lani Pallister (AUS) and Kasia Wasick (POL)
Men
- 19.6 — Hubert Kos (HUN)
- 19.5 — Noe Ponti (SUI)
- 19.2 — Carson Foster and Caspar Corbeau (NED)
- 19 — Shaine Casas (USA)
- 18.7 — Chris Guiliano (USA/CLB)
Not anymore.
What about MOC who got a silver and bronze? Her backstroke would have got a few extra points?
Sorry just a bit confused.
They listed event winners only because the first day leaderboard can otherwise be misleading. Right now on the women’s full leaderboard, Kate Douglass leads with 36.9 and MOC is in second with 31.9, but the winner of the stop will likely be someone with 3 victories (only the three highest scores count at a stop). Of course it’s possible that the winner won’t have three victories, in which case this article could be misleading. The article is trying to show us the likely candidates to win the stop rather than showing the current leaderboard which is led by those with doubles on day one. Noe Ponti and Kate Douglass lead the actual leaderboards with one gold and one silver each.
Thanks so much.