Atkinson Passes Ottesen In World Cup Cluster 2 Points Battle In Dubai

FINA WORLD CUP DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

• Tuesday, October 4 to Wednesday, October 5
• Hamdan Sports Complex, Dubai
• Prelims 10.00 AM, Finals 7.30 PM, local time
• Point Standings After Cluster 1
• Money Lists After Cluster 1
• Entry Lists
• Results
• Live Stream (FINA TV)

There’s no change at the top of the FINA World Cup point standings after Dubai, but Alia Atkinson has passed up Jeanette Ottesen in a spirited battle for second place in Cluster 2.

Ottesen outscored Atkinson by 3 points in Beijing, the first stop of the second cluster. But Atkinson blew up for 60 points in Dubai to nab second in the cluster. Ottesen still leads Atkinson by 11 in the overall series.

The leader, of course, is Katinka Hosszu, who hasn’t trailed in the point standings since 2010. She totaled a whopping 144 in Dubai, her highest single-meet total of the year so far.

On the men’s side, Vladimir Morozov is still the runaway leader. He outscored Chad le Clos by 18 in Dubai, leads by 45 in the second cluster and 79 in the overall series.

There’s just one meet left in the second cluster, with the top 6 cluster finishers in each gender earning big cluster bonus checks. We’ve bolded those in line for those bonuses in the standings below.

WORLD CUP SCORING

Medal Points

Each individual event yields points for the top 3 finishers.

• Gold: 12 points
• Silver: 9 points
• Bronze: 6 points

World Record Bonuses

Each world record yields 20 points. Tying a world record is worth 10 points.

Performance Bonuses

The top 3 male and top 3 female swims of the meet earn bonus points. Top swims are determined based on FINA points. Only the top-scoring swim from each athlete is counted.

• First: 24 points
• Second: 18 points
• Third: 12 points

Dubai PERFORMANCE BONUSES:

This time around, Atkinson and Morozov topped the performance bonus list, which included a second-consecutive tie for 3rd on the women’s side:

Women:

1. Alia Atkinson, 50 breast – 29.02 (977 FINA points)
2. Rie Kaneto, 200 breast – 2:16.20 (962 FINA points)
3. Daryna Zevina, 200 back – 2:00.97 (957 FINA points)*

*Zevina’s 957 FINA points tied with Katie Meili’s 100 breast, but Zevina won the tiebreaker, with her second-best event (904 in the 100 back) topping Meili’s (898 in the 50 breast).

Men:

1. Vladimir Morozov, 100 IM – 51.05 (977 FINA points)
2. Chad le Clos, 200 fly – 1:49.71 (968 FINA points)
3. Daiya Seto, 200 fly – 1:50.73 (942 FINA points)

Here are the full point standings:

WORLD CUP POINTS THROUGH Dubai

Women:

Men: