2018 FINA WORLD CUP – DOHA
- Thursday, September 13th – Saturday, September 15th
- Hamad Aquatic Centre (HAC), Aspire Zone, Doha, Qatar
- Heats at 10am local/Finals at 6pm local
- LCM
- Entry Lists
- SwimSwam Preview
- Results
FULL FINA WORLD CUP SCHEDULE
- September 7-9, Kazan, Russia (50m)
- September 13-15, Doha, Qatar (50m)
- September 28-30, Eindhoven, Netherlands (25m)
- October 4-6, Budapest, Hungary (25m)
- November 2-4, Beijing, China (25m)
- November 9-11, Tokyo, Japan (25m)
- November 15-17, Singapore (25m)
With no world record bonuses yet doled out, Sarah Sjostrom has still earned $65,000 in prize money over the first two stops of the 2018 FINA World Cup. She leads all athletes, with $59,750-winner Katinka Hosszu running second.
Hosszu has actually won more per-race prize money, especially with her focus on the Hungarian relays. But Sjostrom won the first cluster points for a $50,000 bonus, while Hosszu was second and only won $35,000.
On the men’s side, Anton Chupkov has won $55,000, most of that from his $50,000 cluster bonus. Michael Andrew has netted $48,000 and Vladimir Morozov just under $41,000.
PRIZE MONEY SYSTEM
Event Prizes
Prize money is given to the top 6 in each individual event:
- Gold: $1500
- Silver: $1000
- Bronze: $500
- 4th: $400
- 5th: $300
- 6th: $200
Prize money is also given to the top 3 mixed relay teams (though no series points are earned).
- Gold: $3000
- Silver: $2000
- Bronze: $1000
In our money lists, we’ve given each relay member one quarter of that money, which amounts to $750 for a win, $500 for second and $250 for third.
World Record Bonuses
Each world record is worth a $10,000 bonus.
Cluster Bonuses
The 9-meet series is broken into 3 clusters of 2 or 3 meets each. Each cluster awards bonuses for the top8 athletes in points over those three meets. An athlete must swim all the meets in the cluster to earn a cluster bonus:
- 1st: $50,000
- 2nd: $35,000
- 3rd: $30,000
- 4th: $20,000
- 5th: $10,000
- 6th: $5,000
- 7th: $4,000
- 8th: $3,000
Series Bonuses
And the series as a whole will give out bonuses to the top 3 men and women in total series points:
- 1st: $150,000
- 2nd: $100,000
- 3rd: $50,000
Just out of curiosity, do any (or all) the swimmers have to pay their own airfare and hotel costs?
It was reported by swimswam or in comment section that some swimmers get FINA’s money to cover some tournament related expenses. But there were no article that explained the regulations. It is not even clear if this money comes from the World Cup “given away” pool or comes from another FINA’s sources.
Almost 70% swimmers who were awarded some money in this cluster have Slavic names.
When it will be Tokyo stop it will be all Japanese. Etc.
If the goal of FINA World Cup is supporting swimmers of local communities then they definitely succeeded with this task of giving money away (as UGH put it).
Should FINA restrict the participation by at least “B” qualifiers it would make more sense and respect.
Or they can do what casinos do. You are allowed to play any games you want as soon as you have something to spend. But you can collect only if you are 18 or older.
Just stop “Slavic names”…. really?
Ok, swimmers from the republics that formed Soviet Union. Is it better? I used word “Slavic” to avoid confusion like in case with Andriy Govorov who is most likely ethnic Russian (that’s how his last name sounds) but is nevertheless the citizen of Ukraine. So if I said that 70% awarded swimmers were Russian it will be kind of misleading because you would think of them as citizen of Russian Federation.
BTW, you probably know that Kazan isn’t Russian city, but is the capital of Republic of Tatarstan.
No…. I meant stop pointing out useless nonsensical correlations, please.
The short course records are not that strong as they were made in LCM by Ledecky, Sjostrom, Franklin, Baker, King, Hosszu and Liu Zige. So it will be easier to earn higher FINA points. In SCM Sjostrom may not have such advantage in points competition (that results in $300,000 bonuses) as she had in LCM. She’s chosen 50free perfectly knowing that nobody can be that close to world record in any other events as she is in this event. The competition for bonuses in SCM will intensify.
What do you mean chosen 50 free perfectly knowing? It’s her best event both last and this season in long course. But even if she hadn’t swum it, her 100 free time in Kazan and 100 fly time in Doha would’ve topped the charts. As a fact she had the three highest FINA points in Kazan and five of the six highest in Doha. So it wasn’t close no matter how you cut it.
Sjostrom is a ‘much worse’ short course swimmer, plus the nature of it makes it closer so it will be a stiffer competition for sure. But the world cup race is all about Hosszu vs. Sjostrom anyway so it’s more about making sure you beat the… Read more »
“The 9-meet series is broken into 3 clusters of 3 meets each.”
It looks like World Cup consists of 7 meets only this year. Why? Is this how organizers are trying to save on prize money?
2stops x (32 events x $3900 + 2relays x $6000) = $273,600
They are giving away 2.5 million USD total they said
7stops x $136,800 = $957.600 – prizes for success in actual racing
3clusters x $150,000 = $450,000 – cluster bonuses.
Winner – $150,000
Total: ~ $1.6 million USD
What am I missing? Who gets another 1million USD? FINA’s executives?
My dear downvoters, I’m sorry that you cannot digest it. But it isn’t AP Calculus. It isn’t even junior high level. That’s what happening when athletes become pro not even completing elementary school.
Short course has 100 IMs, all meets have World Cup record prize money and world record money
I’m not sure you are right about World Cup record. No money for that – just thank you.
Each event has $3,900 prize. 100IM will be swum 10 times. That will total in extra $39,000 prize money. Maybe we will see some SCM world records. But you will need to have 90 of them to make this 2.5 million USD of prize money.
It is either 2.5 million is incorrect number or not only swimming results get awarded.
Event prizes: 7 meets á $136 800 (32 individual events á $3 900, 2 mixed relays á $6 000) + $39 000 (100 im at 5 meets) = $996 600
Cluster bonuses: 3 clusters á $157 000 for each gender (50k, 35k, 30k, 20k, 10k, 5k, 4k, 3k) = $942 000
Series bonuses: $300 000 for each gender (150k, 100k, 50k) = $600 000
Total prize money: $2 538 600 ($996 600 + $942 000 + $600 000)
Thanks.
Your math needs help!
There are bonuses available for records
Does this Net amount take into account travel/accomodations/etc? gotta figure plane and hotel to Kazan and Doha were around 10k each
Pretty sure Michael Andrew mentioned in one of his vlogs that that was paid for by the tour.
Glad MA is making some bucks instead of wasting his time swimming for some college team for free
Yep. Missy should’ve turned pro honestly after London. I feel like she’d have been way better off now.
Yup, this one trip can pay for a college education if he ever decided to go.
The tax on the prize money must be pretty crazy though…