FINA continues to post Twitter announcements of athletes who will compete in the full FINA Champions Series, but on the official event website, they have now published full athlete lists.
62 athletes will compete in the opening stop in Shenzen, with 9 more, including triple Olympic gold medalist Ryan Murphy and Japan’s Daiya Seto, joining the series at its 2nd stop in Beijing.
- Read more details, including prize money, about the series format here.
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- Click here for full entry lists in PDF format
There is one spot still to be confirmed: the 4th entrant in the women’s 200 IM in Shenzen. Japan’s Rika Omoto will fill that spot in the 2nd stop in Beijing.
In the series opening stop in Shenzen, China leads all countries with 12 entrants, followed by the USA and Hungary with 7 each.
Among the notable absences are any of the members of the Energy Standard training group. That group was founded by Konstantin Grigorishin, who also founded the International Swimming League – a rival series to the FINA Champions Series. That includes no Sarah Sjostrom, no Chad le Clos, no Ben Proud, no Kliment Kolesnikov, and no Florent Manaudou, among others. Sarah Sjostrom was the leading money-earner in this series last year.
FINA Champions Series (Shenzen) January 14-15
Men:
- Michael Andrew, USA, 50 free, 50 back, 50 fly, 100 fly, 200 IM
- Dmitriy Balandin, KAZ, 100 breast, 200 breast
- Marcelo Chierighini, BRA, 100 free
- Apostolos Christou, GRE, 50 back
- Anthony Ervin, USA, 50 free
- Kristian Gkolomeev, GRE, 50 free
- Robert Glinta, ROU, 50 back
- Joao Gomes, BRA, 50 breast
- Andriy Govorov, UKR, 50 fly
- Matt Grevers, USA, 100 back
- Zach Harting, USA, 200 fly
- Ji Xinjie, CHN, 400 free
- Arno Kamminga, NED, 50 breast, 100 breast, 200 breast
- Radoslaw Kawecki, POL, 200 back
- Tamas Kenderesi, HUN, 200 fly
- Denys Kesyl, UKR, 200 fly
- Marco Koch, GER, 200 breast
- Oleg Kostin, RUS, 50 fly, 100 fly
- Dominik Kozma, HUN, 200 free, 400 free
- Andrei Minakov, RUS, 100 free, 100 fly
- Vladimir Morozov, RUS, 50 free, 100 free
- Jacob Pebley, USA, 100 back, 200 back, 200 IM
- Josh Prenot, USA, 200 breast, 200 IM
- Danas Rapsys, LTU, 200 free, 400 free
- Masato Sakai, JPN, 200 fly
- Nicholas Santos, BRA, 50 fly
- Fabio Scozzoli, ITA, 50 breast
- Ilya Shymanovich, BLR, 50 breast, 100 breast
- Sun Yang, CHN, 200 free, 400 free
- Adam Telegdy, HUN, 200 back
- Matthew Temple, AUS, 100 fly
- Markus Thormeyer, CAN, 200 free, 100 back, 200 back
- Pieter Timmers, BEL, 100 free
- Wang Shun, CHN, 200 IM
- Xu Jiayu, CHN, 50 back, 100 back
- Yan Zibei, CHN, 100 breast
Women:
- Alia Atkinson, JAM, 50 breast, 100 breast
- Martina Carraro, ITA, 50 breast, 100 breast, 200 breast
- Svetlana Chimrova, RUS, 200 fly
- Michelle Coleman, SWE, 50 free, 100 free, 50 back, 100 back, 50 fly
- Elena Di Liddo, ITA, 50 fly, 100 fly
- Anna Egorova, RUS, 400 free
- Fu Yuanhui, CHN, 100 back
- Molly Hannis, USA, 50 breast
- Siobhan Haughey, HKG, 100 free, 200 free
- Femke Heemskerk, NED, 50 free, 100 free, 200 free
- Katinka Hosszu, HUN, 200 free, 100 back, 200 back, 100 fly, 200 fly, 200 IM
- Ida Hulkko, FIN, 50 breast
- Boglarka Kapas, HUN, 400 free, 200 fly
- Ajna Kesely, HUN, 400 free
- Ranomi Kromowidjojo, NED, 50 free, 100 free, 50 fly, 100 fly
- Liu Xiang, CHN, 50 free, 50 back
- Liu Yaxin, CHN, 200 back
- Jeanette Ottesen, DEN, 50 fly, 100 fly
- Sydney Pickrem, CAN, 200 back, 100 breast, 200 breast, 200 IM
- Caroline Pilhatsch, AUT, 50 back
- Liliana Szilagyi, HUN, 200 fly
- Kira Toussaint, NED, 50 back, 100 back, 200 back
- Wang Jianjiahe, CHN, 400 free
- Yang Junxuan, CHN, 200 free
- Ye Shiwen, CHN, 200 breast, 200 IM
- Yu Jingyao, CHN, 100 breast, 200 breast
New Additions for 2nd stop in Beijing (January 18-19)
Men:
- Jeremy Desplanches, SUI, 200 IM
- Ryosuke Irie, JPN, 100 back, 200 back
- Felipe Lima, BRA, 50 breast
- Ryan Murphy, 50 back, 100 back, 200 back, 100 fly
- Daiya Seto, JPN, 200 fly, 200 IM
- Pieter Timmers, BEL, 200 free
- Ippei Watanabe, JPN, 200 breast
Women:
- Anastasia Fesikova, RUS, 50 back, 100 back
- Rika Omoto, JPN, 200 IM
Drops for 2nd stop in Beijing (January 18-19)
Men:
- Josh Prenot – Out of 200 IM
- Jacob Pebley – Out of 200 IM
- Markus Thormeyer – Out of 100 back
- Jacob Pebley – Out of 100 back
- Adam Telegdy – Out of 200 back
- Markus Thormeyer – Out of 200 back
- Fabio Scozzoli – Out of 50 breast
- Apostolos Christou – Out of 50 back
- Oleg Kostin – Out of 100 fly
- Zach Harting – Out of 200 fly
- Markus Thormeyer – Out of 200 free
- Marco Koch – Out of 200 breast
Women:
- Michelle Coleman – Out of 50 back
- Michelle Coleman – Out of 100 back
- Hosszu Pickrem Ye TBC
- Hosszu Fu Kira Coleman
- Pilhatsch Liu Toussaint Coleman
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Braden, you may be able to answer my question. How can Andrei Minakov compete at the series and still be eligible for NCAA? Don’t they make money from this meet?
The NCAA doesn’t have an issue with athletes competing at prize-money-meets so long as athletes don’t accept prize money above and beyond their expenses. The same is true, for example, in the Pro Swim Series, where many NCAA athletes compete, or the World Championships, which also offers substantial prize money.
I don’t know if it has been tested yet, but I do suspect that participation in the ISL would be different, given the “professional team” aspect. That would probably raise more red flags than these individual participation meets.
That makes sense! Thank you!
Kromo Heemskerk Coleman Haughey should be a cracker 100m free race
There are only 3 people in the 200IM for women. Hosszu, Ye Shiwen and Pickrem
Random thought; Hungary would have a killer mixed 4 x 200 fly relay. They have Hossuz, Kapas, Jakabos, Szilagyi, Milak, Cseh, Kenderesi. They would have enough to have a rested prelims and finals team
We would have a killer women and men (plus Biczo) 4×200 fly relay, too 🙂
So close to Aussie, yet only 1
This isn’t even near as competitive as last year and there’s one less stop, doesn’t seem anywhere near as interesting as Last year.
The end is nigh…
Wake me up when it’s over
May I recommend you W400FR before you fell asleep. interesting and more or less even field: Kesely, Wang, Kapas, Egorova.
Well we can see if any of them are in contention for a bronze medal this summer. I’ll admit I’m more interested in the young American swimmers so maybe that’s why I’m hitting the snooze button
Kesely was 4:01 and is very young. Wang was 4:03 and is very young. Kesely was slow at recent Hungarian championships probably being in training mode. For some reason Chinese girls are swimming usually well at the beginning of the season. Kapas and Egorova are either for money there or are trying to establish themselves as contenders. In any case I am expecting them racing seriously.
But you never know they all can be at 4:08 level. And even then if four swimmers swim close to each other 400m it can be interesting.
Also you may find interesting to watch Hosszu in 200 free against Haughey (#5), Yang (#6) and Heemskerk(#10) after having 200BK, 100BK and 200IM in same session.
I don’t want to watch Hosszu get paid $6000 for her 200 warm down swim
I laughed to hard at that