Gretchen Walsh Near Perfect in World Cup Rankings, Hubert Kos Two Points Up After Stop One

2025 SWIMMING WORLD CUP – CARMEL

• October 10-12, 2025
• Carmel, Indiana
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The first stop of the World Aquatics World Cup concluded on Sunday, which means the World Cup rankings for the first stop are official, and Gretchen Walsh and Hubert Kos were the stop winners, and they will lead the overall rankings going into this weekend’s stop in Westmont.

Each stop has a perfect score of 60 points available to athletes from their combined event finish and World Aquatics point totals. While there is no event limit for the World Cup, the point totals only include an athlete’s top three events per stop.

The event finish points are distributed to athletes who finish in the top 8 in an individual event. Event winners receive 10 points, meaning if an athlete wins three events over the stop, they have a maximum 30 points available to them.

Gretchen Walsh, Kate Douglass, and Hubert Kos all earned the maximum 30 points by winning all three of their individual events in Carmel.

Regan Smith, Kaylee McKeown, Lani Pallister, Carson Foster and Ilya Kharun all won two individual events and finished 2nd in their 3rd, earning 28 total points for event finishes.

After the points awarded for event finishes, athletes receive points based on the number of World Aquatics Points their swim earned. These point totals are determined based on the previous year’s World Record.

A 1000+ point swim is the World Record in the event. For example, Gretchen Walsh‘s 50 fly World Record swim in Carmel received 1028 World Aquatics points, and 10+ points in the World Cup rankings.

The rest of the point totals will follow a similar pattern. A 990 point swim receives 9.9 points. A 980 point swim receives 9.8 points and so on.

An athlete who wins three events and breaks three World Records could earn 60 points per stop. Walsh sits at the top of the women’s rankings with 59.1 points, less than one point away from a perfect 60.

In the 50 butterfly, she earned 20 points (10 for the event win and 10.2 for the World Record). She earned 19.4 in the 100 fly (10 for the event win and 9.4 from her 946 AQUA points), and in the 100 IM, she earned 19.5 points (10 for the event win and 9.5 from her 957 AQUA points).

On the men’s side, Hungary’s Hubert Kos was the only swimmer to walk home with three event titles through sweeping the backstroke events. Kos also won a bronze medal in the 100 IM, but he will not receive points for that swim.

He earned 19.3 points in the 50 back (event win and 930 AQUA points), 19.5 points in the 100 back (event win and 954 AQUA points), and 19.6 points in the 200 back (event win and 966 AQUA points) for a total of 58.4 points after one stop.

Looking forward, the women’s meet has historically required nine event wins in order to win the title. With Summer McIntosh withdrawing from the rest of the series making her unable to disrupt the rankings, it seems likely the same feat will be required this year. That means that Walsh and Douglass will likely be competing for the top spot with the rest of the women coming in behind them.

The men’s side is currently led by Kos, who has confirmed his presence at all three stops. If he continues to win all three of his events, he will be the clear winner, and he currently sits more than two points ahead of 2nd place Caspar Corbeau, who earned 55.8 points in Carmel.

Women’s Rankings After Stop 1

Men’s Rankings After Stop 1

**Carson Foster wins the tie because his highest AQUA point total of the meet (941 points in the 200 IM) outranks Kharun’s highest AQUA point total (927 points in the 50 fly).