2018 FINA WORLD CUP – SINGAPORE
- Thursday, November 15th – Saturday, November 17th
- OCBC Aquatic Centre, Singapore
- SCM
- 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)
Vladimir Morozov‘s $332,400 in prize money led all earners on the 2018 World Cup series. Both he and women’s champ Sarah Sjostrom cracked $300,000, and six swimmers earned six-figure prize totals.
The series champs typically wind up in the $300,000 range, owing to a $150,000 bonus for winning the overall points title. Sjostrom won $314,400 over the length of the series.
Others cracking six figures: Katinka Hosszu ($255,100), Kirill Prigoda ($171,400), Ranomi Kromowidjojo ($128,100) and Mitch Larkin ($118,200).
The dropoff from the top is typically steep in these final rankings. Six women and six men made between $30,000 and $100,000, which constitutes a solid chunk of change, though far less than pro athletes in most other sports. But of the 212 men and 179 women who earned money on the series, the vast majority earned only between a few hundred and a few thousand. In fact, only a dozen women and 14 men broke $10,000 for the series.
You can see the full money lists below:
Cluster 3 Results
Women:
- Katinka Hosszu – 144
- Sarah Sjostrom – 135
- Ranomi Kromowidjojo – 126
- Femke Heemskerk – 105
- Yulia Efimova – 102
- Alia Atkinson – 93
- Emily Seebohm – 78
- Kira Toussaint – 63
Men:
- Vladimir Morozov – 184
- Xu Jiayu – 158
- Kirill Prigoda – 123
- Michael Andrew – 81
- Mitch Larkin – 78
- Blake Pieroni – 66
- Wang Shun* – 60
- Li Zhuhao* – 60
*Wang Shun wins the tiebreak over Li Zhuhao due to a better top FINA performance score, 951 to 937.
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. Each cluster awards bonuses for the top 8 athletes in points over those three meets. An athlete must swim all 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
Swimming is not a profession. It’s a mistake and huge sacrifice at all levels. Love the sport but let’s get real….
Swimming is clearly a profession for a number of these athletes. Sports are a profession for countless athletes in a wide range of sports. Not sure why swimming would be different.
Probably a profession was understood here like a set of skills that will provide your living during entire adult life span. Because of toughness of such physical exercise the swimming requires unparalleled physical and mental efforts in training and actual competition. That limits substantially the period of time when a swimmer can make more or less decent earnings.
Swimming coach – that is a profession. Administrator in sport of swimming – that is a profession. Competitive swimming is not.
When we call a swimmer a professional the only thing that is meant by that is that this person can earn some money by swimming. But when my children earned some dollars by babysitting I wouldn’t call them a professional caregivers.
I don’t think the time period limits what is and isn’t a profession. The average career of an NFL player lasts 3.3 years, but an average NFL starter can earn enough money in one or two contracts to support themselves the rest of their lives. That’s clearly a profession for the athlete. It’s pretty fair to say someone like Michael Phelps made swimming a profession – he made enough during the years he was able to train and compete to support himself for many years after that window ended. The same likely goes for Hosszu, Sjostrom and many of these other swimmers making $300K a year on the World Cup. If you make more in a five-year athletic career than… Read more »
And Bezos earns $191,000 every minute….
Everything is fine in that current world.
thats how it works so far , yes
Good for Vlad. He is a good swimmer who deserves much more money. Hopefully 2019 he will make over $423000!
how much after taxes though. does Vlad pay taxes to Russia or the US?
In Mother Russia you don’t pay taxes, taxes pay you.
As a note, the average salary in Russia is $491 per month.
It is so unfortunate that this year World Cup has not received the attention it deserved. If winning a medal at Olympic Games or World Championships is all about prestige and medal competition between nations then World Cup is all about competition for the individual money. And that is how it should be viewed and reported. Times showed are secondary. The competition of this year was full of drama. It showed that organizers are moving in right direction with the changing format of this tournament. A lot of great results were shown, the number of main competitors has increased, the tournament from being a stupid way of throwing money away got more businesslike.
There are still a lot of… Read more »
88,000 $ for Andrew – not bad at all for his first Tour !!!
Not to mention the excellent racing experience against some of the top international swimmers and press coverage for he and his sponsors. Good money that more than covers the cost. I don’t know why more pros from USA don’t swim this series. Seems like a big missed opportunity. MA was very smart to participate in this series.
When one is saying that ONLY a dozen women broke $10,000 for the series then there is a good point to remind that the Grand Prize of Professional Swimming Series that has about same number of stops is just $10,000 for the winner. I am not sure what this “ONLY” was supposed to emphasize in this article. I guess that this fact is a good achievement of this World Cup tournament.
I wonder how much it costs to travel to all of these stops(plane tickets, food, hotels)
Many top swimmers get funding from organizers. We know Pieroni did, I would presume that Morozov and Hosszu and some of the other top finishers did too. Some swimmers get funding from their federations too.
But, as a thought experiment…I’d bet it could be done for less than $10,000 for all stops, 3 nights/stop. Especially if you split hotel rooms with other athletes (most of the regulars seem pretty tight).