World Cup Money Update: Seventeen grand for Hosszu, seven for Shields out of Hong Kong

Katinka Hosszu and Tom Shields were the top money-earners at the Hong Kong World Cup this week, with the former racking up $17,000 and the latter $7,500.

That completes a big weekend for Shields in which he nearly matched his total earnings from the first two World Cup events, excluding the cluster bonus. Shields led all men with his $7,500 – Thomas Fraser-Holmes and defending series champ Chad Le Clos each brought in $6,000.

Shields still runs fourth in the overall money lists, though, behind Le Clos and Daniel Gyurta (who benefited from big world record bonuses early in the tour) and Fraser-Holmes, who earned a bigger bonus out of the first cluster by $10,000 and now leads by just about that amount.

Hosszu’s $17,000 looks impressive, but it’s actually her lowest amount out of the three World Cups so far. That’s because this was her first World Cup of 2014 without a world record and the resulting $10,000 bonus. She actually earned less than half the money that she took home from Doha, where she cracked three different world records.

It seemed like Hosszu took a bit of a different approach in Hong Kong, entering every single event and swimming most of them. That allowed her to earn money in 12 different events, a series-high for her, but the collective fatigue prevented her from getting world records and ultimately lowered her earnings considerably. It’ll be interesting to see what kind of strategy Hosszu puts into play later this week in Moscow and if she can add any world records there.

Both Inge Dekker and Alia Atkinson brought in $6,000 apiece, and sit second and third, respectively, in the series money list.

The next round of cluster bonuses come into effect after Moscow’s World Cup this weekend.

Full day 2 Hong Kong recap

Men’s Money List

Rank Athlete Country TOTAL MONEY EARNED TOTAL: Hong Kong
1 Chad le Clos South Africa $66,500 $6,000
2 Daniel Gyurta Hungary $54,000 $3,000
3 Thomas Fraser-Holmes Australia $47,500 $6,000
4 Tom Shields USA $37,250 $7,500
5 Marco Koch Germany $19,000 $4,500
6 Christian Diener Germany $15,000 $2,500
7 Velimir Stjepanovic Serbia $6,500 $1,500
8 David Verraszto Hungary $5,000 $2,000
8 Eugene Godsoe USA $5,000 $0
10 George Bovell Trinidad & Tobago $4,750 $0
11 Ashley Delaney Australia $4,500 $4,000
12 Roland Schoeman South Africa $4,250 $0
13 Fabio Scozzoli Italy $3,000 $0
13 Gergo Kis Hungary $3,000 $0
13 Josh Schneider USA $3,000 $0
13 Pawel Korzeniowski Poland $3,000 $0
17 Konrad Czerniak Poland $2,750 $0
18 Hiromasa Fujimori Japan $2,500 $2,500
18 Cody Miller USA $2,500 $0
20 Geoff Cheah Hong Kong $2,000 $2,000
20 Gergely Gyurta Hungary $2,000 $2,000
20 Bobby Hurley Australia $2,000 $0
20 Steffen Deibler Germany $2,000 $0
24 Li Yongwei China $1,500 $1,500
24 Leith Shankland South Africa $1,500 $500
24 Ahmed Mathlouthi Tunisia $1,500 $0
24 Oussama Mellouli Tunisia $1,500 $0
28 Kirill Prigoda Russia $1,000 $1,000
28 Masato Sakai Japan $1,000 $1,000
28 Oleg Tikhobaev Russia $1,000 $1,000
28 Viacheslav Prudnikov Russia $1,000 $1,000
28 Yasuhiro Koseki Japan $1,000 $1,000
28 Hayate Matsubara Japan $1,000 $0
28 Nikolay Skvortsov Russia $1,000 $0
28 Yukihiro Takahashi Japan $1,000 $0
36 Hong Jinlong China $500 $500
36 Ari-Pekka Liukkonen Finland $500 $0
36 Martin Schweitzer Switzerland $500 $0
36 Martin Spitzer Austria $500 $0
Total: $313,000 $51,000

Women’s Money List

Rank Athlete Country TOTAL Money Earned TOTAL: Hong Kong
1 Katinka Hosszu Hungary $142,000 $17,000
2 Inge Dekker Netherlands $53,000 $6,000
3 Alia Atkinson Jamaica $43,000 $6,000
4 Mireia Belmonte Garcia Spain $35,000 $5,000
5 Marieke D’Cruz Australia $17,500 $0
6 Breeja Larson USA $12,000 $0
7 Daryna Zevina Ukraine $9,000 $3,000
8 Evelyn Verraszto Hungary $5,500 $3,000
9 Aleksanrda Urbanczyk Poland $4,000 $0
9 Caitlin Leverenz USA $4,000 $0
9 Julia Hassler Liechtenstein $4,000 $0
12 Rie Kaneto Japan $3,500 $3,500
13 Veronika Popova Russia $3,000 $3,000
13 Lisa Zaiser Austria $3,000 $0
15 Carolina Colorado Henao Colombia $2,000 $0
15 Franziska Hentke Germany $2,000 $0
15 Hrafnhildur Luthersdottir Iceland $2,000 $0
18 Laura Sogar USA $1,500 $0
19 Hang Yu Sze Hong Kong $1,000 $1,000
19 Stephanie Au Hong Kong $1,000 $1,000
19 Tatjana Schoenmaker South Africa $1,000 $1,000
19 Danielle Villars Switzerland $1,000 $0
19 Lena Kreundl Austria $1,000 $0
24 Jamie Yeung Hong Kong $500 $500
24 Liting Wang China $500 $500
24 Siobhan Haughey Hong Kong $500 $500
24 Michee Van Rooyen South Africa $500 $0
  Total: $353,000 $51,000

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