FINA Swimming World Cup


The FINA Swimming World Cup is an international series of short course swimming meets organized by FINA, the International Federation for swimming. Launched in 1988, the FINA Swimming World Cup gathers world-class swimmers in a series of two-day meets organised between August and November each year. Across nine locations, the circuit is structured in clusters and distributes a total of prize money reaching US$2.5 million.
Currently, the overall first, second, and third-place winners are awarded prize money. The men's and women's series winners take home $150,000 each, runners-up $100,000, and third-place finishers $50,000, following a prize-money increase announced by FINA in September 2017.

Events

The events are the same for all meets, but the competition order may vary. All events are swum prelims/finals, with the exception of the and freestyle which are swum as timed finals. The meets are held over two days, with preliminary heats in the morning, and finals in the evening. A noted exception to this style are the meets held in Brazil, where prelims have been in the evening with finals the following morning.
On most years, the races are held in short course pools; the exception recently being the season leading up to an Olympic year, where events are swum in long course venues.
Current series events :

Most wins

No.MenCountryWinsWomenCountryWins
1Chad le Clos145*Katinka Hosszú305 + 3*
2Vladimir Morozov108 + 14*Martina Moravcová105
3Roland Schoeman64Therese Alshammar93
4Cameron van der Burgh59Alia Atkinson73*
5Randall Bal54Sarah Sjöström72*
6Mark Foster53Yana Klochkova60
7Christian Keller53Mette Jacobsen52
8Daiya Seto47*Antje Buschschulte52
9Ryk Neethling43Sandra Voelker45
10Alexander Popov42Franziska Van Almsick42

Venues