The final stop of the second cluster of the 2013 FINA World Cup Series is in the books, and that means that FINA is about to award another big set of checks – $306,000 worth of them to be exact.
Those awards will go to the top 6 male and female swimmers from the Moscow, Dubai, and Doha stops of the World Cup.
The below tables are tentative, pending FINA’s official announcement, but by our math, these will be the 6 athletes who get the big checks.
There was one little flaw in the scoring system, perhaps, though overall, the new system has had the desired affect. Only one swimmer, Ruta Meilutyte, was able to score big cash prizes without competing in all three stops (though several others, including Jeanette Ottesen, were very close). This should continue to encourage repeated participation, which is one of the big draws for a series of this type.
For anyone who might have scratched their heads about Russian Vlad Morozov turning pro before his senior year at USC: here is your answer. This is the second cluster in which he’s placed 2nd, which scores him $60,000 off the bat. That doesn’t include tens-of-thousands of dollars in individual race prizes, or the hundreds of thousands of dollars of potential prize money he could still win. For reference, the value of a full scholarship for a year at USC is based off of around $60,000 annually. So far, it seems as though Vlad’s decision, financially, has paid off when compared to the value of a college scholarship, even not considering any financial support he’s receiving from the Russian Federation.
Best performance bonus points for Doha went to:
- Katinka Hosszu (HUN) 24 – based on 2:05.45 200 IM (979 points)
- Daryna Zevina (UKR) 18 – based on 2:01.17 200 back (972 points)
- Alia Atkinson (JAM) 12 – based on 1:03.38 100 breast (968 points)
and
- Tom Shields (USA) 24 – based on 48.80 100 fly (980 points)
- Kenneth To (AUS) 18 – based on 51.19 100 IM (972 points)
- Chad le Clos (RSA) 12 – based on 49.05 100 fly (965 points)
Men
| MoscowTotal | DubaiTotal | Doha Total | Cluster 2 Total | ||
| $50,000 | Chad Le Clos | 69 | 69 | 66 | 204 |
| $35,000 | Vlad Morozov | 54 | 54 | 45 | 153 |
| $30,000 | Kenneth To | 51 | 39 | 54 | 144 |
| $20,000 | Bobby Hurley | 51 | 45 | 39 | 135 |
| $10,000 | Tom Shields | 18 | 54 | 57 | 129 |
| $8,000 | Roland Schoeman | 33 | 24 | 33 | 90 |
Women
| MoscowTotal | DubaiTotal | Doha Total | Cluster 2 TOtal | ||
| $50,000 | Katinka Hosszu | 102 | 90 | 105 | 297 |
| $35,000 | Daryns Zevina | 42 | 42 | 51 | 135 |
| $30,000 | Alia Atkinson | 21 | 57 | 39 | 117 |
| $20,000 | Yulia Efimova | 39 | 33 | 30 | 102 |
| $10,000 | Mireia Belmonte | 33 | 39 | 18 | 90 |
| $8,000 | Ruta Meilutyte | 80 | 0 | 0 | 80 |
I hope FINA hires some better admin staff. On the official FINA website Jeanette Ottesen has no points from Dubai despite two first place and two third place finishes. By my count she should be in 4th place overall just ahead of Zevina instead of 6th.
Argh, I meant no points from Doha.
Maybe 20 bonus points for a new world record is a little bit too high? In addition to the bonuses it also claims, of course, the first spot in a final on top of the fact it’s likely the best performance at the world cup stop as well. Therefore a single world record performance leads presumably to the total of 56 points.
Previously I thought Hosszu’s world record extravaganza at the European Cluster of the World Cup killed the competition for the overall title. I was wrong. Hosszu would have won easily anyway; without breaking a single world record.
I’d go as far as suggesting Katinka Hosszu as the best all-around swimmer in the world at the present… Read more »
Hi please update Morozov.
In Dubai he made 54 pts, not 48
(2x1st 50+100free = 24pts
2x2nd 100im+50 back = 18 pts
3rd Fina point rankings = 12 pts
Total 54 pts)
—> Cluster total 153
This does not alter the actual ranking
I’m pretty sure vlad is still at USC to train. So during the spring/summer he can still take classes to finish up his degree. It’s just that he losing money by staying amateur. If you had a degree in economics you would say the “opportunity cost of him staying in college is greater than that of him becoming pro.”
Value of a college degree > any sort of money made in the World Cup Series. Still “scratching my head” as to why he left early….
uscswimfan – that totally misses the point. The idea is that Vlad can, with his winnings, pay to finish his USC degree whenever he likes, and have a boat-load of cash on top of it. The appropriate equation is Value of a college degree + $100,000+ cash > value of a college degree.
Lol, what’s the average debt of a college grad these days? Given Vlad had a full ride, but I think it’s fair to say Vlad’s future is in swimming.