2009 FINA Swimming World Cup explained

The 2009 FINA Swimming World Cup was a series of five short course (25 m) swimming meets, held in October and November 2009.^[1]

Meets

The 2009 World Cup was staged at five venues on three continents, with each meet following a morning heats and evening finals format for all events, with the exception of the 800 m and 1500 m freestyle and 400 m individual medley events which were heat-declared winners. The order of events at each meet was the same. A sixth meet originally scheduled to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 23 - 25 October was cancelled.^[2]

Meet	Dates	Results
1	16–17 October	Results
2	6–7 November	Results
3	10–11 November	Results
4	14–15 November	Results
5	21–22 November	Results

Results

Overall World Cup

At each meet of the World Cup circuit in 2009, the FINA Points Table^[3] was used to rank all swim performances at the meet. The top 10 men and top 10 women were then awarded World Cup points. Bonus points were awarded for a world record broken (20 points) or equalled (10 points).^[4] The number of World Cup points awarded was doubled for the final meet of the World Cup in Singapore.

Rank on FINA Points	World Cup points awarded
1	25
2	20
3	16
4	13
5	10
6	7
7	5
8	3
9	2
10	1

The overall rankings are shown below.^[5]

Men

Rank	Name	Nationality	Points awarded (Bonus)					Total
Rank	Name	Nationality	RSA	RUS	SWE	GER	SIN	Total
1			16	25	25	25 (40)	32	163
2			25	20	16	20	50	131
3			20 (20)	7	13 (20)		26 (20)	126
4			1	3	3	13 (20)	40	80
5				13 (20)		5 (20)		58
6						10 (40)		50
7					20	7	20	47
8			10			16 (20)		46
9			7	10		3 (20)		40
10			3	16 (20)				39
11					10 (20)			30
12			13		7		10	30
13			5	2	2	(20)		29
14						1	14	15
15			2		5			7
16							6	6
17				5				5
18							4	4
19						2		2
20							2	2
21					1			1
22				1				1

Women

Rank	Name	Nationality	Points awarded (Bonus)					Total
Rank	Name	Nationality	RSA	RUS	SWE	GER	SIN	Total
1			20 (20)	25 (20)	20 (20)	25 (20)	40	210
2			25 (40)	13	25 (20)	7	50 (20)	200
3			13	7	2	16 (20)	26	84
4			16	20 (20)	13	10		79
5					16 (60)			76
6						20 (40)		60
7				1	3	13 (40)		57
8					(20)	5 (20)		45
9			10	10	5 (20)			45
10				16 (20)				36
11							14 (20)	34
12					1		32	33
13							20	20
14					10	3		13
15							10	10
16					7			7
17			3				4	7
18			7					7
19							6	6
20				5				5
21			5					5
22				3				3
23						2		2
24							2	2
25				2				2
26			2					2
27						1		1
28			1					1

Event winners

50 m freestyle

Meet	Men			Women
Meet	Winner	Nationality	Time	Winner	Nationality	Time
Durban			21.29			23.74
Moscow			20.88 (WC)			23.92
Stockholm			20.64 (WC)			23.75
Berlin			20.57 WC			23.34 (WC)
Singapore			20.75			23.27 WC

100 m freestyle

Meet	Men			Women
Meet	Winner	Nationality	Time	Winner	Nationality	Time
Durban			46.30			52.46
Moscow			45.87			52.22
Stockholm			45.54 (WC)			51.61 (WC)
Berlin			45.56			51.95
Singapore			45.46 WC			51.19 WC

200 m freestyle

Meet	Men			Women
Meet	Winner	Nationality	Time	Winner	Nationality	Time
Durban			1:42.79			1:57.60
Moscow			1:42.13			1:54.02
Stockholm			1:41.65			1:53.71
Berlin			1:39.37 WR			1:53.77
Singapore			1:41.65			1:54.76

400 m freestyle

Meet	Men			Women
Meet	Winner	Nationality	Time	Winner	Nationality	Time
Durban			3:42.09			4:11.62
Moscow			3:38.40			4:01.96
Stockholm			3:38.78			3:57.75
Berlin			3:32.77 WR			4:01.21
Singapore			3:39.18			4:02.77

1500 m (men) / 800 m (women) freestyle

Meet	Men			Women
Meet	Winner	Nationality	Time	Winner	Nationality	Time
Durban			14:49.17			8:29.51
Moscow			14:32.64			8:12.94
Stockholm			14:28.35 WC			8:07.94 (WC)
Berlin			14:29.46			8:04.61 WC
Singapore			14:32.47			8:17.21

50 m backstroke

Meet	Men			Women
Meet	Winner	Nationality	Time	Winner	Nationality	Time
Durban			22.75 (WR)			26.55 (WC)
Moscow			22.94			26.17 (WR)
Stockholm			22.73 (WR)			25.82 WR
Berlin			22.85			26.09
Singapore			22.61 WR			26.55

100 m backstroke

Meet	Men			Women
Meet	Winner	Nationality	Time	Winner	Nationality	Time
Durban			49.40 (WC)			57.77
Moscow			49.49			56.66
Stockholm			49.29 WC			56.42 (WC)
Berlin			49.55			55.23 WR
Singapore			49.63			56.97

200 m backstroke

Meet	Men			Women
Meet	Winner	Nationality	Time	Winner	Nationality	Time
Durban			1:49.53			2:07.96
Moscow			1:47.08 WR			2:04.59
Stockholm						2:02.01 (WC)
Berlin			1:46.11 WR			2:00.18 WR
Singapore			1:46.41			2:01.48

50 m breaststroke

Meet	Men			Women
Meet	Winner	Nationality	Time	Winner	Nationality	Time
Durban			25.90 (WC)			29.45 (WR)
Moscow			25.58 (WC)			29.36 (WR)
Stockholm			25.68			29.29*
Berlin			25.25 WR			28.80 WR
Singapore			25.58			29.09

* Jessica Hardy set a new world record of 28.96 seconds in the heats of this event in Stockholm.

100 m breaststroke

Meet	Men			Women
Meet	Winner	Nationality	Time	Winner	Nationality	Time
Durban			56.60 (WC)			1:04.15 (WC)
Moscow			56.36 (WC)			1:03.75 (WC)
Stockholm			56.17 (WC)			1:03.74 (WC)
Berlin			55.61 WR			1:03.00 WR
Singapore			56.25			1:03.73

200 m breaststroke

Meet	Men			Women
Meet	Winner	Nationality	Time	Winner	Nationality	Time
Durban			2:03.35			2:20.41
Moscow			2:04.15			2:19.58
Stockholm			2:02.67 (WC)			2:18.54
Berlin			2:02.67*			2:15.42 WR
Singapore			2:02.65			2:20.52

* Neil Versfeld set a new World Cup record of 2:02.56 seconds in the heats of this event in Berlin.

50 m butterfly

Meet	Men			Women
Meet	Winner	Nationality	Time	Winner	Nationality	Time
Durban			22.32 (WC)			24.75 (WR)
Moscow			22.33			25.10
Stockholm			22.08 (WC)			24.46 (WR)
Berlin			21.80 WR			24.69
Singapore			22.16			24.38 WR

100 m butterfly

Meet	Men			Women
Meet	Winner	Nationality	Time	Winner	Nationality	Time
Durban			50.23			56.12 (WC)
Moscow			48.99 (WR)			55.82 (WC)
Stockholm			49.44			55.46 WR
Berlin			48.48 WR			55.62
Singapore			49.51			56.07

200 m butterfly

Meet	Men			Women
Meet	Winner	Nationality	Time	Winner	Nationality	Time
Durban			1:54.45			2:05.55
Moscow			1:51.30			2:04.01 (WC)
Stockholm			1:49.11 WR			2:02.50 (WR)
Berlin			1:50.58			2:00.78 WR
Singapore			1:51.54			2:03.27

100 m individual medley

Meet	Men			Women
Meet	Winner	Nationality	Time	Winner	Nationality	Time
Durban			51.96			59.93*
Moscow			51.45 (WC)			58.88
Stockholm			51.77			58.40 (WR)
Berlin			50.96**			57.74 WR
Singapore			52.11			58.32

* Therese Alshammar set a new world record of 58.51 seconds in the heats of this event in Durban.
** Sergey Fesikov set a new world record of 50.95 seconds in the heats of this event in Berlin.

200 m individual medley

Meet	Men			Women
Meet	Winner	Nationality	Time	Winner	Nationality	Time
Durban			1:53.13			2:09.10
Moscow			1:52.93			2:06.01 WR
Stockholm			1:51.79 (WC)			2:06.44
Berlin			1:51.55 WR			2:07.34
Singapore			1:52.49			2:06.20

400 m individual medley

Meet	Men			Women
Meet	Winner	Nationality	Time	Winner	Nationality	Time
Durban			4.05.04			4:30.53
Moscow			4:03.45			4:26.98 (WC)
Stockholm			4:03.29			4:26.40 (WC)
Berlin			4:02.18			4:30.52
Singapore			4:05.79			4:22.88 WR

Legend:

External links

FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup 2009 official site

Notes and References

Web site: FINA Swimming World Cup 2009 . . 2009-08-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150621040905/http://www.fina.org/project/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=107&Itemid=541 . 2015-06-21 . dead .
Web site: Rio World Cup Round Cancelled . Craig Lord . 2009-09-17 . 2009-10-20 .
Web site: Fina Point Scoring . . 2008-09-16 . 2008-10-10 . PDF .
Web site: FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup 2009 - Scoring Rules . . 2009-10-20 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150621074015/http://www.fina.org/project/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=477&Itemid=229 . 2015-06-21 .
Web site: FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup 2009 - Scoring . https://archive.today/20120801201200/http://www.fina.org/project/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2693&Itemid=634 . dead . 2012-08-01 . . 2009-11-12 .