Morozov, Hosszu Bolster World Cup Point Leads In Beijing

2016 FINA WORLD CUP – BEIJING

Vladimir Morozov and Katinka Hosszu continued to expand their leads over the fields in FINA World Cup points at the tour’s 4th stop in Beijing this weekend.

Morozov earned 81 points and Hosszu 117 to outpace the rest of the fields in their respective genders.

With Hosszu largely in the driver’s seat to win her 6th consecutive series title, the more interesting race is currently on the men’s side. Defending series champ Cameron van der Burgh did not compete in Beijing and has fallen to 5th in series points. Morozov topped closest challenger (and 2014 series champ) Chad le Clos by 27 in Beijing, and the two sit atop the points in Cluster 2.

Also making a run was Japan’s Daiya Setowho didn’t swim the tour’s first cluster. He scored 36 points in Beijing alone and has rocketed to 15th overall.

For the women, Hosszu outscored Jeanette Ottesen by 60, and Ottesen herself only scored 57. It was Hosszu, Ottesen and Alia Atkinson (54) who clearly dominated on the women’s side, and they sit 1-2-3 in points for the tour and the cluster.

Another Japanese swimmer made a splash in Beijing: Rie Kaneto scored 36 and has jumped into the top 10 overall, nearly matching her point total from all three 1st cluster meets in a single Beijing meet. Kaneto also nabbed the biggest FINA point bonus of the meet on the women’s side, while Morozov took that honor for the men.

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

Beijing PERFORMANCE BONUSES:

This time around, Efimova and le Clos topped the performance bonus list:

Women:

  1. Rie Kaneto, 200 breast – 2:15.91 (970 FINA points)
  2. Alia Atkinson, 50 breast – 29.15 (964 FINA points)
  3. Jeanette Ottesen, 100 free – 51.93 (942 FINA points)*

*Ottesen’s 942 FINA points tied with Daryna Zevina’s 200 back, but Ottesen won the tiebreaker, with her second-best event (909 in the 50 fly) topping Zevina’s (883 in the 100 back).

Men:

  1. Vladimir Morozov, 100 IM – 51.06 (976 FINA points)
  2. Chad le Clos, 200 fly – 1:49.82 (965 FINA points)
  3. Wang Shun, 200 IM – 1:51.63 (947 FINA points)

Here are the full point standings:

WORLD CUP POINTS Through Beijing

Women:

Rank Name TOTAL Cluster 1 Cluster 2
1 Katinka Hosszu 495 378 117
2 Jeanette Ottesen 198 141 57
3 Alia Atkinson 175 121 54
4 Yulia Efimova 144 120 24
5 Daryna Zevina 141 120 21
6 Katie Meili 135 111 24
7 Emily Seebohm 105 105 0
8 Zsuzsanna Jakabos 96 78 18
9 Rie Kaneto 75 39 36
10 Madeline Groves 72 66 6
11 Franziska Hentke 48 48 0
12 Miho Takahashi 45 45 0
13 Leah Neale 33 33 0
14 Shao Yiwen 27 27 0
15 Wang Siqi 24 15 9
16 Zhu Menghui 21 0 21
17 Hou Yawen 18 0 18
17 Lu Ying 18 0 18
17 Breeja Larson 18 12 6
20 Holly Barratt 15 15 0
20 Hannah Miley 15 15 0
22 Liu Siyu 12 0 12
22 Natalia Lovtcova 12 12 0
22 Anastasiia Kirpichnikova 12 12 0
25 Ai Yanhan 9 0 9
25 Dong Jie 9 0 9
25 Li Bingjie 9 0 9
25 Liu Xiang 9 0 9
25 Kimberly Buys 9 9 0
25 Anna Santamans 9 9 0
31 Tang Yi 6 0 6
31 Zhang Yufei 6 0 6
31 Cheng Haihua 6 0 6
31 Chen Jie 6 0 6
31 Xu Huiyi 6 0 6
31 Lei Lei 6 0 6
31 Kin Lok Chan 6 6 0
31 Daria Ustinova 6 6 0
31 Daria Tcvetkova 6 6 0
40 Vasilissa Buinaia 0 0 0
40 Mathilde Cini 0 0 0
40 Marie Wattel 0 0 0
40 Liz Roberts 0 0 0
40 Ksenia Vasilenok 0 0 0
40 Daria Kartashova 0 0 0
40 Arina Surkova 0 0 0

Men:

Rank Name TOTAL Cluster 1 Cluster 2
1 Vlad Morozov 307 226 81
2 Chad le Clos 246 192 54
3 Philip Heintz 168 138 30
4 Bobby Hurley 129 99 30
5 Cameron van der Burgh 102 102 0
6 Pavel Sankovich 93 66 27
7 Marco Koch 81 69 12
7 Kirill Prigoda 81 81 0
9 Mitch Larkin 78 78 0
10 Hiromasa Fujimori 75 75 0
11 James Guy 66 66 0
12 Adam Barrett 57 57 0
13 Andrii Govorov 54 54 0
14 Felipe Lima 48 27 21
15 Daiya Seto 36 0 36
15 Poul Zellmann 36 30 6
17 Xu Jiayu 33 0 33
17 Myles Brown 33 0 33
17 Wang Shun 33 0 33
20 Shinri Shioura 30 30 0
21 Ben Proud 24 6 18
22 Stanislav Donets 21 21 0
22 Jan Micka 21 21 0
24 Qiu Ziao 18 0 18
24 Josh Prenot 18 0 18
24 Jack Gerrard 18 18 0
24 Jeremy Stravius 18 18 0
24 Jordan Pothain 18 18 0
29 Takeshi Kawamoto 15 0 15
29 Katsumi Nakamura 15 0 15
29 Yasunari Hirai 15 15 0
32 Pieter Timmers 12 0 12
32 Florian Wellbrock 12 12 0
32 Hao Yun 12 12 0
35 Cao Jiwen 9 0 9
35 Mark Meszaros 9 9 0
35 Evgeny Drobotov 9 9 0
35 Mikhail Dorinov 9 9 0
39 Yan Zibei 6 0 6
39 Li Xiang 6 0 6
39 Sebastian Steffen 6 6 0
39 Johannes Dietrich 6 6 0
39 Daniil Pasynkov 6 6 0
39 Nic Brown 6 6 0
39 Nikolay Chaplinskiy 6 6 0

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Steven Latham
7 years ago

And Vlad the “missing positives” Morozov retains his lead. No surprises there. With FINA in Russias pocket he probably isn’t even being tested this year.

Billabong
Reply to  Steven Latham
7 years ago

He looks turbo charged. Test him.

G.I.N.A
Reply to  Billabong
7 years ago

Why bother .Only something like 5 tested positive in Rio & who believes that ?

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