With a couple of month till the Swimming World Cup 2024 collection, World Aquatics has launched this system for every of the three stops, in addition to particulars on the scoring system and prize cash.
The 2024 collection takes place totally in Asia and returns to the 25-meter pool (SCM) after being in long-course in 2023 for the upcoming Olympic yr. Shanghai, China hosts the primary meet from October 18-20, earlier than the motion shifts to Incheon, South Korea from October 24-26 and at last to Singapore from October 31-November 2.
Occasion Program
The 50s by 200s of stroke are on the schedule at every of the three stops, as are the 100/200/400 IM and the 50 by 400 freestyle. The ladies’s 800 freestyle can be raced in Shanghai and Singapore, and the lads’s 800 freestyle in Incheon. It’s the reverse for the 1500 freestyle; the lads have two alternatives (Shanghai and Singapore) whereas the ladies have one (Incheon).
Scoring System
Like earlier years, factors are awarded from the end order and how briskly the swim is predicated on the AQUA Energy Factors system.
| Place | 1st | 2nd | third | 4th | fifth | sixth | seventh | eighth |
| Factors | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Factors are awarded for velocity by taking the variety of AQUA Energy Factors a swim is value, dividing by ten, and rounding all the way down to the closest tenth.
Prize Cash
Swimmers can race as many occasions as they need at every cease, however solely their three greatest scores from a cease can be added collectively to find out their rating for the cease. At every cease, there’s a complete of $112,000 (USD) on provide for every gender or $672,000 for the entire collection. This is identical quantity as was accessible in 2023 and 2022.
Prize cash for rankings at every cease is given by the highest 20 positions with women and men scored individually. If there’s a tie, the swimmer with the upper AQUA Energy Factors of their greatest occasion through the cease wins.
Prize Cash for Every Cease:
| Rating at Cease | Complete | Rating At Cease | Complete |
| 1 | $12,000 | 11 | $4,900 |
| 2 | $10,000 | 12 | $4,800 |
| 3 | $8,000 | 13 | $4,700 |
| 4 | $6,000 | 14 | $4,600 |
| 5 | $5,500 | 15 | $4,500 |
| 6 | $5,400 | 16 | $4,400 |
| 7 | $5,300 | 17 | $4,300 |
| 8 | $5,200 | 18 | $4,200 |
| 9 | $5,100 | 19 | $4,100 |
| 10 | $5,000 | 20 | $4,000 |
There may be additionally prize cash for the highest eight swimmers per gender on the finish of all the collection. The winner of the lads’s and girls’s standings will every earn $100,000. A complete of $262,000 can be awarded throughout the highest eight swimmers per gender on the finish of the collection. Once more, this is identical amount of cash that was on provide in 2023.
Prize Cash for Total Collection Rating:
| OVERALL RANK | TOTAL (USD) |
| 1 | $100,000 |
| 2 | $70,000 |
| 3 | $30,000 |
| 4 | $15,000 |
| 5 | $14,000 |
| 6 | $12,000 |
| 7 | $11,000 |
| 8 | $10,000 |
Complete Assured Prize Cash To Be Awarded
- Shanghai – $224,000 ($112,00 per gender)
- Incheon – $224,000 ($112,00 per gender)
- Singapore – $224,000 ($112,00 per gender)
- Total Collection Rankings – $524,000 ($262,000 per gender)
- Complete – $1,196,000
Further Prize Cash
Along with the assured prize cash from rankings on the finish of every cease and the tip of the collection, swimmers can earn cash by breaking a world report or finishing a Triple Crown—profitable the identical occasion in any respect three stops.
Swimmers can decide up $10,000 USD for every world report and $10,000 for every Triple Crown. Final yr, Kaylee McKeown broke two world data on the World Cup collection, swimming 26.86 within the 50 backstroke and a 57.33 100 backstroke on the Budapest cease. There have been 20 Triple Crowns received in 2023; 12 have been received by girls as each girls’s freestyle, backstroke, and butterfly occasions have been Triple Crowns.
2023 Swimming World Cup Triple Crowns
Girls:
- 50 freestyle — Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden
- 100 freestyle — Siobhan Haughey, Hong Kong
- 200 freestyle — Siobhan Haughey, Hong Kong
- 400 freestyle — Erika Fairweather, New Zealand
- 800/1500 freestyle — Lani Pallister, Australia
- 50 backstroke — Kaylee McKeown, Australia
- 100 backstroke — Kaylee McKeown, Australia
- 200 backstroke — Kaylee McKeown, Australia
- 200 breaststroke — Tes Schouten, Netherlands
- 50 butterfly — Sarah Sjostrom, Sweden
- 100 butterfly — Zhang Yufei, China
- 200 butterfly — Zhang Yufei, China
Males:
2023 Outcomes
McKeown and Qin Haiyang adopted up their exploits on the 2023 World Championships, the place they grew to become the primary swimmers to brush 50/100/200 of a stroke at a World Championships by profitable the 2023 Swimming World Cup.
McKeown claimed the ladies’s trophy win 177.4 factors forward of Siobhan Haughey (166.4) and Zhang Yufei (166.2). Over the three stops of the 2023 World Cup, McKeown earned three backstroke Triple Crowns, broke two world data, and lowered the backstroke World Cup data every time she swam.
Qin received the lads’s desk with 175.4 factors, with Thomas Ceccon (167.9) and Matthew Sates (166.8) ending second and third. Qin earned three breaststroke Triple Crowns, setting World Cup data within the 50 and 200 breast on the first cease of the collection in Berlin.
Whereas not at all times the case, in 2023 the World Cup total winners additionally earned essentially the most prize cash all through the collection. Qin earned $166,000 whereas McKeown topped all swimmers with $186,000.
