2018 FINA WORLD CUP – EINDHOVEN
- Friday, September 28th – Sunday – September 30th
- SCM
- Cluster 1 Results
- Entry List
- SwimSwam Meet Preview
- Results
A world record 100 IM (and the resulting 20 point bonus) has surged Vladimir Morozov into the men’s lead on the 2018 FINA World Cup tour. Sarah Sjostrom still leads the women’s ranks, and is tied for the cluster 2 lead with Wang Jianjiahe.
Morozov trailed fellow Russian Anton Chupkov by 6 after cluster 1, but scored a massive 80 points in Eindhoven, nearly doubling his point total to earn a 56-point lead over Chupkov and Mitch Larkin. Morozov gets scoring credit for 3 wins (12 points apiece), the top FINA points bonus (24 points) and the 20-point world record bonus. No other man scored more than 51 in Eindhoven. That 51 points came from Daiya Seto, who sits second in the cluster.
Sjostrom had built a 30-point lead in cluster 1, but expanded that to 48 in Eindhoven. The Swedish sprinter had four wins, but only gets points for her top three events, plus had the second-best FINA points swim on the women’s side. She earns 54 in Eindhoven, tying China’s Wang, who had the top FINA points bonus and moved up to 8th overall in the series despite not swimming any of cluster 1.
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)
WORLD CUP SCORING
Medal Points
Each individual event yields points for the top 3 finishers.
- Gold: 12 points
- Silver: 9 points
- Bronze: 6 points
Each athlete can swim an unlimited amount of events, but only their best three finishes count for points.
World Record Bonuses
Each world record yields 20 points. Tying a world record is worth 10 points.
Performance Bonuses
The top 3 male and top 3 female swims of the meet earn bonus points. Top swims are determined based on FINA points. Only the top-scoring swim from each athlete is counted.
- First: 24 points
- Second: 18 points
- Third: 12 points
PERFORMANCE BONUSES:
Women:
- Wang Jianjiahe, 400 free: 3:54.63 = 998 FINA points
- Sarah Sjostrom, 100 fly: 54.91 = 983 FINA points
- Yulia Efimova, 200 breast: 2:15.62 = 976 FINA points
Men:
- Vladimir Morozov, 100 IM: 50.26 = 1002 FINA points
- Daiya Seto, 400 IM: 3:57.25 = 978 FINA points
- Kirill Prigoda, 200 breast: 2:01.59 = 971 FINA points
So do extra swims take points away from competitors? Or do they remove that swimmer and move others up
They don’t move other swimmers up. Each swimmer earns money for all of their top-6 finishes, but only earns points from their three best finishes (if they have more than 3 finishes in the top 3). Finishing 4th won’t yield any points even if the swimmers ahead of you have already maxed out their points finishes for the meet.
Yeah, otherwise it wouldn’t be fair to the swimmers finishing just outside the podium on the first day of competition, if their competitors were moved up from fourth to third on the second day because some swimmers had maxed out their points by then. 🙂
Only 8k for le clos. Gonna be hard to pay his way to meets with that