2024 Short Course World Championships
- December 10-15, 2024
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Noe Ponti passed Gretchen Walsh for the most prize money tonight after he won the men’s 50 fly in another World Record. He also earned a $10,000 bonus after he also won the event at the three World Cup stops this fall.
So far through two days, $625,000 has been awarded. Ponti and Gretchen Walsh make up 21.8% of the total given out so far as the two combined have earned $136,250.
World Aquatics is offering up $25,000 prize money bonuses for each World Record broken at the meet. Day 2 had less World Records broken, although the triple crown bonus awarded from another title after winning the World Cups was given out twice tonight with $10,000 going to Regan Smith and another to Noe Ponti.
Notes:
- NCAA swimmers can keep prize money up to their expenses; then there is a massive loophole where they can accept rewards from their National Olympic Committees, so as long as the rest of their prize money is funneled through those organizations (checks are all written to national federations, not athletes directly), it’s kosher.
- We’ve made the assumption that the four members of finals relays share the money equally. There is no rule about how money should be divided between members of a relay, so we’ll never officially know how much is awarded to each athlete, so we’re using this estimate.
Credit to Barry Rezvin for running the numbers
Total Prize Money Earned Through Day 2
| Last Name | First Name | Country | Event Money | World Record Bonus | Crown Bonus | Total Money |
| PONTI | Noè | Switzerland | $10,000.00 | $50,000.00 | $10,000.00 | $ 70,000.00 |
| WALSH | Gretchen | United States | $10,000.00 | $56,250.00 | $ – | $ 66,250.00 |
| DOUGLASS | Kate | United States | $10,000.00 | $31,250.00 | $ – | $ 41,250.00 |
| MCINTOSH | Summer | Canada | $10,000.00 | $25,000.00 | $ – | $ 35,000.00 |
| SMITH | Regan | United States | $10,000.00 | $ – | $10,000.00 | $ 20,000.00 |
| PALLISTER | Lani | Australia | $18,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 18,000.00 |
| BERKOFF | Katharine | United States | $ 8,000.00 | $ 6,250.00 | $ – | $ 14,250.00 |
| HARVEY | Mary-Sophie | Canada | $13,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 13,000.00 |
| GOSE | Isabel | Germany | $12,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 12,000.00 |
| MADDEN | Paige | United States | $12,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 12,000.00 |
| LIFINTSEV | Miron | Neutral Athletes B | $10,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 10,000.00 |
| JAOUADI | Ahmed | Tunisia | $10,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 10,000.00 |
| CASAS | Shaine | United States | $10,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 10,000.00 |
| KHARUN | Ilya | Canada | $ 8,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 8,000.00 |
| GASTALDELLO | Beryl | France | $ 8,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 8,000.00 |
| WELLBROCK | Florian | Germany | $ 8,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 8,000.00 |
| KOS | Hubert | Hungary | $ 8,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 8,000.00 |
| RAZZETTI | Alberto | Italy | $ 8,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 8,000.00 |
| WALSH | Alex | United States | $ 8,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 8,000.00 |
| PERKINS | Alexandria | Australia | $ 7,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 7,000.00 |
| KNOX | Finlay | Canada | $ 7,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 7,000.00 |
| WILM | Ingrid | Canada | $ 7,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 7,000.00 |
| WOOD | Abbie | Great Britain | $ 7,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 7,000.00 |
| KORSTANJE | Nyls | Netherlands | $ 7,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 7,000.00 |
| STOKOWSKI | Kacper | Poland | $ 7,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 7,000.00 |
| TUNCELLI | Kuzey | Türkiye | $ 7,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 7,000.00 |
| GRIMES | Katie | United States | $ 7,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 7,000.00 |
| GUILIANO | Chris | United States | $ – | $ 6,250.00 | $ – | $ 6,250.00 |
| ALEXY | Jack | United States | $ – | $ 6,250.00 | $ – | $ 6,250.00 |
| HOBSON | Luke | United States | $ – | $ 6,250.00 | $ – | $ 6,250.00 |
| SMITH | Kieran | United States | $ – | $ 6,250.00 | $ – | $ 6,250.00 |
| SHACKELL | Alex | United States | $ – | $ 6,250.00 | $ – | $ 6,250.00 |
| ANDERSON | Iona | Australia | $ 6,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 6,000.00 |
| JOLY | Damien | France | $ 6,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 6,000.00 |
| SZABO | Szebasztian | Hungary | $ 6,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 6,000.00 |
| SAMUSENKO | Pavel | Neutral Athletes B | $ 6,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 6,000.00 |
| SURKOVA | Arina | Neutral Athletes B | $ 6,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 6,000.00 |
| FOSTER | Carson | United States | $ 6,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 6,000.00 |
| SCHLICHT | David | Australia | $ 5,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 5,000.00 |
| TIERNEY | Blake | Canada | $ 5,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 5,000.00 |
| SCHWARZ | Sven | Germany | $ 5,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 5,000.00 |
| WALSHE | Ellen | Ireland | $ 5,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 5,000.00 |
| BUSA | Michele | Italy | $ 5,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 5,000.00 |
| QUADARELLA | Simona | Italy | $ 5,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 5,000.00 |
| SHKURDAI | Anastasiya | Neutral Athletes A | $ 5,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 5,000.00 |
| GIELE | Tessa | Netherlands | $ 5,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 5,000.00 |
| WEINSTEIN | Claire | United States | $ 5,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 5,000.00 |
| MASSE | Kylie | Canada | $ 4,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 4,000.00 |
| HENIQUE | Melanie | France | $ 4,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 4,000.00 |
| KIRPICHNIKOVA | Anastasiia | France | $ 4,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 4,000.00 |
| MORA | Lorenzo | Italy | $ 4,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 4,000.00 |
| DE TULLIO | Luca | Italy | $ 4,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 4,000.00 |
| PEKARSKI | Grigori | Neutral Athletes A | $ 4,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 4,000.00 |
| BORODIN | Ilia | Neutral Athletes B | $ 4,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 4,000.00 |
| MEDER | Rebecca | South Africa | $ 4,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 4,000.00 |
| COOPER | Isaac | Australia | $ 3,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 3,000.00 |
| NEALE | Leah | Australia | $ 3,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 3,000.00 |
| WEILER SASTRE | Carmen | Spain | $ 3,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 3,000.00 |
| CARRASCO | Emma | Spain | $ 3,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 3,000.00 |
| KESELY | Ajna | Hungary | $ 3,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 3,000.00 |
| MARTYNYCHEV | Kirill | Neutral Athletes B | $ 3,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 3,000.00 |
| DE WAARD | Maaike | Netherlands | $ 3,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 3,000.00 |
| TEONG | Tzen Wei | Singapore | $ 3,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 3,000.00 |
| SAKA | Berke | Türkiye | $ 3,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 3,000.00 |
| PRICE | Lily | Australia | $ 2,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 2,000.00 |
| KUSCH | Marius | Germany | $ 2,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 2,000.00 |
| SÁRKÁNY | Zalán | Hungary | $ 2,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 2,000.00 |
| SETO | Daiya | Japan | $ 2,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 2,000.00 |
| DIAKOVA | Sofia | Neutral Athletes B | $ 2,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 2,000.00 |
| VAN RENEN | Ruard | South Africa | $ 2,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 2,000.00 |
| GAN | Ching Hwee | Singapore | $ 2,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 2,000.00 |
| POTOCKÁ | Tamara | Slovakia | $ 2,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 2,000.00 |
| HANSSON | Louise | Sweden | $ 2,000.00 | $ – | $ – | $ 2,000.00 |
I wonder what his hourly rate is compared to Juan Soto’s new pay raise…
Noe would’ve been a force to be reckoned with in the ISL I bet.
That’s a catchy headline, and I wonder how many folks did the ‘hey, that’s a thousand dollars per second’ math. But of course, nobody anywhere ever gets a world record in swimming without thousands of hours of pool and gym time. We all know that. It also calculates out to $48/hour, if a swimmer trains four hours a day for a year. Nobody gets there with one year of training, so … There are lots of math games to be imagined.
It did spark this curiosity: I wonder if anybody already has, or will, do some research on which sports tend to require the greatest amount of training time. I also wonder if NCAA has adjusted their ‘maximum coached… Read more »
Damn imagine how the economy would crumble if workers got to include the entirety of their education and their commutes in their minimum wage calculations.
It is really baffling that some top USA swimmers would choose the Pro Swim Series which pays peanuts over Worlds or World Cups. I won’t mention names but a few come to mind.
He deserves every penny!
He did it the smart way. It would have been even better if he tied his old WR in prelims – he was really close to it.