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

FINA WORLD CUP DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

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 Hosszuwho 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:

Rank Name Cluster 2 Total Beijing Dubai Series Total
1 Katinka Hosszu 261 117 144 639
2 Alia Atkinson 114 54 60 235
3 Jeanette Ottesen 105 57 48 246
4 Daryna Zevina 69 21 48 189
5 Rie Kaneto 66 36 30 105
6 Zsuzsanna Jakabos 57 18 39 135
7 Yulia Efimova 54 24 30 174
8 Katie Meili 48 24 24 159
9 Madeline Groves 27 6 21 93
10 Fang Yi 24 0 24 24
11 Zhu Menghui 21 21 0 21
12 Hou Yawen 18 18 0 18
12 Lu Ying 18 18 0 18
14 Brittany Elmslie 15 0 15 15
15 Haihua Cheng 12 0 12 12
15 Breeja Larson 12 6 6 24
15 Liu Siyu 12 12 0 12
18 Wang Siqi 9 9 0 24
18 Ai Yanhan 9 9 0 9
18 Dong Jie 9 9 0 9
18 Li Bingjie 9 9 0 9
18 Liu Xiang 9 9 0 9
23 Spela Bohinc 6 0 6 6
23 Zhang Jiaqi 6 0 6 6
23 Chen Jie 6 6 0 6
23 Cheng Haihua 6 6 0 6
23 Lei Lei 6 6 0 6
23 Tang Yi 6 6 0 6
23 Xu Huiyi 6 6 0 6
23 Zhang Yufei 6 6 0 6
31 Emily Seebohm 0 0 0 105
31 Franziska Hentke 0 0 0 48
31 Miho Takahashi 0 0 0 45
31 Leah Neale 0 0 0 33
31 Shao Yiwen 0 0 0 27
31 Hannah Miley 0 0 0 15
31 Holly Barratt 0 0 0 15
31 Anastasiia Kirpichnikova 0 0 0 12
31 Natalia Lovtcova 0 0 0 12
31 Anna Santamans 0 0 0 9
31 Kimberly Buys 0 0 0 9
31 Daria Tcvetkova 0 0 0 6
31 Daria Ustinova 0 0 0 6
31 Kin Lok Chan 0 0 0 6

Men:

Rank Name Cluster 2 Total Beijing Dubai Series Total
1 Vlad Morozov 162 81 81 388
2 Chad le Clos 117 54 63 309
3 Daiya Seto 96 36 60 96
4 Bobby Hurley 75 30 45 174
5 Myles Brown 66 33 33 66
6 Philip Heintz 63 30 33 201
7 Pavel Sankovich 60 27 33 126
8 Felipe Lima 42 21 21 69
9 Josh Prenot 36 18 18 36
10 Ben Proud 33 18 15 39
10 Wang Shun 33 33 0 33
10 Xu Jiayu 33 33 0 33
13 Takeshi Kawamoto 30 15 15 30
14 Pieter Timmers 27 12 15 27
15 Marco Koch 24 12 12 93
16 Katsumi Nakamura 21 15 6 21
17 Qiu Ziao 18 18 0 18
18 James Guy 15 0 15 81
18 Poul Zellmann 15 6 9 45
20 Li Xiang 12 6 6 12
21 Stanislav Donets 9 0 9 30
21 Cao Jiwen 9 9 0 9
23 Gergely Gyurta 6 0 6 6
23 Miguel Ortiz 6 0 6 6
23 Omar Pinzon 6 0 6 6
23 Roland Schoeman 6 0 6 6
23 Yan Zibei 6 6 0 6
28 Cameron van der Burgh 0 0 0 102
28 Kirill Prigoda 0 0 0 81
28 Mitch Larkin 0 0 0 78
28 Hiromasa Fujimori 0 0 0 75
28 Adam Barrett 0 0 0 57
28 Andrii Govorov 0 0 0 54
28 Shinri Shioura 0 0 0 30
28 Jan Micka 0 0 0 21
28 Jack Gerrard 0 0 0 18
28 Jeremy Stravius 0 0 0 18
28 Jordan Pothain 0 0 0 18
28 Yasunari Hirai 0 0 0 15
28 Florian Wellbrock 0 0 0 12
28 Hao Yun 0 0 0 12
28 Evgeny Drobotov 0 0 0 9
28 Mark Meszaros 0 0 0 9
28 Mikhail Dorinov 0 0 0 9
28 Daniil Pasynkov 0 0 0 6
28 Johannes Dietrich 0 0 0 6
28 Nic Brown 0 0 0 6
28 Nikolay Chaplinskiy 0 0 0 6
28 Sebastian Steffen 0 0 0 6

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