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French Olympic champion Leon Marchand will be in the water tonight on day one of the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup in Singapore. Archive photo via Jack Spitser/Spitser Photography
Analizziamo tutte le prestazioni dei migliori nuotatori della coppa del mondo. Scopriamo inoltre chi ha conquistato la tripla corona.
Swimmers Leon Marchand (above) and Kate Douglass won three triple crown awards each at the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup, earning $10,000 for each.
Concluse le tappe della Coppa del mondo è tempo di analizzare le prestazioni degli azzurri durante le varie tappe. Come si sono posizionati?
Kate Douglass and Leon Marchand walked away with $100,000 bonuses for leading the points standings at the 2024 World Cup.
Douglass threw down a time of 50.82 to lower the American record by .44, becoming the first American woman under 51 seconds.
Nyls Korstanje’s finals swim in the 50 fly would have been the World Record in the event a month ago; for now, it’s the Dutch record.
19-year-old Yu Yiting of China produced a new national record of 2:03.99 on her way to gold in this evening’s Singapore final.
20-year-old Pan Zhanle of China clocked a new national record of 1:41.59 on his way to bronze in tonight’s 200m freestyle.
October 31st, 2024
And just like that we’re onto the final stop of the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup series with action kicking off tonight from Singapore.
The fields from the previous 2 stops have remained relatively intact, which means we’ll be treated to performances by the likes of Frenchman Leon Marchand, Swiss ace Noe Ponti, Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey, and Americans Regan Smith and Kate Douglass.
Refresh this post often to stay updated on the latest and greatest swims being put up in the quest for medals and cash in the cup race.
GOLD – Katie Grimes (USA), 3:57.61
SILVER – Mary-Sophie Harvey (CAN), 3:58.21
BRONZE – Claire Weinstein (USA), 4:00.17
18-year-old American Olympic medalist Katie Grimes denied Canada’s Mary-Sophie Harvey a repeat victory from Incheon in this women’s 400m free.
Grimes stopped the clock at 3:57.61, a new lifetime best, to reap gold by less than a second.
Harvey settled for silver this evening in 3:58.06, well off the 3:56.78 that garnered her gold last week.
Grimes’ teammate Claire Weinstein rounded out the podium at 4:00.17.
As for Grimes, here 3:57.61 now checks the teen in as the 4th-fastest American performer in history.
Top 5 American Women’s SCM 400 Free Performers All-Time
GOLD – Duncan Scott (GBR), 3:34.46
SILVER – Kieran Smith (USA), 3:36.97
BRONZE – Pan Zhanle (CHN), 3:38.79
Olympic multi-medalist Duncan Scott busted out the 400m swim of his life to grab the gold tonight in the men’s race.
The versatile 27-year-old crushed a lifetime best of 3:34.46 to get to the wall first, ripping a new British national record in the process. The previous British standard stood at the 3:36.35 James Guy put on the books a decade ago so Scott hacked nearly 2 seconds off that performance.
Remarkably, Scott’s outing also overtook the longstanding Commonwealth Record. That time rested at the 3:34.58 Aussie icon Grant Hackett established over 20 years ago in 2022.
American Kieran Smith was next to the wall in 3:36.97, the fastest performance across the 3 stops. Smith hit 3:38.44 in Shanghai followed by 3:37.15 in Incheon. His lifetime best remains at the national record-setting 3:34.38 logged at the 2022 Short Course World Championships.
Reigning men’s 100m free Olympic champion and world record holder Pan Zhanle held on for 3rd tonight, turning in a time of 3;38.79. He wowed the field last week in Incheon when the 20-year-old scorched a winning effort of 3:36.43.
Of note, Marchand was entered in this event but scratched this morning’s heats.
GOLD – Regan Smith (USA), 25.48
SILVER – Iona Anderson (AUS), 25.95
BRONZE – Ingrid Wilm (CAN), 25.98
Olympic multi-medalist Regan Smith topped the women’s 50m back field decisively, producing a podium-topping time of 25.48.
That’s by far her fastest performance across the 3 stops, beating the 25.70 from Shanghai that gave her silver and the 25.71 from Incheon. Her time fell just .11 outside of Gretchen Walsh’s American Record of 25.37 posted earlier this month at an NCAA dual meet.
Iona Anderson turned in the first sub-26-second time of her young career, registering 25.95 for silver just .03 ahead of Canadian Ingrid Wilm‘s 25.98.
GOLD – Pieter Coetze (RSA), 1:49.88
SILVER – Lorenzo Mora (ITA), 1:51.07
BRONZE – Jack Dahlgren (USA), 1:52.80
20-year-old Pieter Coetze of South Africa dominated this men’s 200m back, getting to the wall over a second ahead of the pack.
Coetze’s victory in 1:49.88 sealed his threepeat, having topped the podium in this event both in Shanghai and Incheon ahead of tonight’s race. His time of 1:49.12 from the former represented a huge lifetime best and his first-ever foray under the 1:50 barrier. Ahead of this World Cup series, his previous PB rested at the 1:51.51 from the 2022 Short Course World Championships.
Italy’s Lorenzo Mora snagged the silver here in 1:51.07, well off his national record of 1:48.43 from last year’s European Championships.
Former Mizzou standout Jack Dahlgren bagged the bronze in 1:52.80, a shiny new personal best.
Of note, Lee Juho of South Korea sliced .10 off his national record from Incheon, placing 4th in 1:52.85.
GOLD – Brittany Castelluzzo (AUS), 2:03.44
SILVER – Bella Grant (AUS), 2:03.92
BRONZE – Laura Lahtinen (FIN), 2:06.83
23-year-old Brittany Castelluzzo of Australia ripped a new lifetime best en route to winning this women’s 200m fly.
The Tea Tree Gully athlete registered 2:03.44 to erase her former PB of 2:03.93 logged at last month’s Australian Short Course Championships. She’s now the 7th-swiftest Aussie performer of all time.
Right behind her was countrywoman Bella Grant who punched a result of 2:03.92 en route to silver. Grant won this event last week in Incheon, hitting a quicker mark of 2:03.13 to upset American Smith.
Finnish ace Laura Lahtinen earned the bronze this time around, posting 2:06.83. Her time in Incheon was much quicker in 2:03.79 and she was even faster at the first stop in a new national standard of 2:03.13.
GOLD – Noe Ponti (SUI), 48.60
SILVER – Nyls Korstanje (NED), 49.12
BRONZE – Teong Tzen Wei (SGP), 49.37
The top 3 performers in this men’s 100m fly all easily cleared the 50-second barrier, led by national record holder and 50m fly world record holder Noe Ponti of Switzerland.
Ponti clocked a time of 48.60 to successfully wrap up a trifecta of wins in the event across all 3 stops. The 23-year-old’s effort was within .20 of the European Record-setting time of 48.40 established last week in Incheon but was ahead of the 48.81 he put up in Shanghai.
Nyls Korstanje of the Netherlands was within striking distance of his national record, posting 49.12 for silver. His Dutch standard of 48.99 was notched in Incheon to make the former NC State swimmer the fastest-ever from his nation.
Singapore’s Teong Tzen Wei rounded out the podium in 49.37 for a new national record, hacking half a second off his previous personal best of 49.88 from the 2021 Singaporean Swimming Championships.
GOLD – Kate Douglass (USA), 2:12.72 *WORLD RECORD
SILVER – Alina Zmushka (NIA), 2:18.79
BRONZE – Tara Kinder (AUS), 2:19.08
What is there to say after a swim like that by American Kate Douglass.
The 22-year-old Olympic champion blasted one of the most impressive swims of all time, hitting an other-worldly result of 2:12.72 to take the gold. She entirely skipped the 2:13’s en route to surpassing her previous WR of 2:14.16 put on the books just days ago in Incheon.
Tonight she beat the field by over 6 seconds….6 seconds! Alina Zmushka of Belarus, competing as an independent athlete, touched in 2:18.79 and Aussie Tara Kinder secured bronze in 2:19.08.
GOLD – Qin Haiyang (CHN), 55.61 *World Cup Record
SILVER – Ilya Shymanovich (NIA), 55.72
BRONZE – Caspar Corbeau (NED), 56.67
Belarusian Ilya Shymanovich led this men’s 100m breast through the 75m mark before China’s Qin Haiyang raced a blistering 14.63 final 25m to grab the gold.
Qin’s time of 55.61 tied South African Cameron van der Burgh’s World Cup Record of 55.61 established over a decade ago in 2009. His result also checks in as a new national and Asian continental record, outperforming the 55.73 he produced on his home soil in Shanghai.
Shymanovich settled for silver in 55.72, his first outing under the 56-second barrier across the 3 stops. His PB remains at the current World Record of 55.28 he swam in 2021.
Caspar Corbeau earned his 2nd consecutive bronze, touching in 56.67, just off his 56.59 from the Incheon stp.
GOLD – Kasia Wasick (POL), 23.23
SILVER – Yang Junxuan (CHN), 23.89
BRONZE – Siobhan Haughey (HKG), 24.00
32-year-old Kasia Wasick completed her trio of World Cup victories in this women’s 50m freestyle, handily defeating tonight’s field in Singapore.
Poland’s Wasick put up a time of 23.23 to get to the wall over half a second ahead of the pack. The next-closest competitor was Yang Junxuan of China who hit 23.89.
Hong Kong’s Olympic multi-medalist Siobhan Haughey finished 3rd in 24.00.
Wasick’s result was within range of her Polish standard of 23.10 turned in during last year’s circuit, so the veteran was just .13 off that time.
GOLD – Dylan Carter (TTO), 20.82
SILVER – Isaac Cooper (AUS), 21.01
BRONZE – Marius Kusch (GER), 21.04
28-year-old Dylan Carter was just off his personal best and TTO national record en route to claiming gold in the men’s edition of the splash n’ dash.
Carter posted a winning effort of 20.82, just .12 off his 20.70 PB from the 2022 Short Course World Championships. He was 21.06 at the first stop in Shanghai to earn his 2nd gold during the series.
Aussie sprinter Isaac Cooper was next in 21.01, slightly quicker than his silver medal-garnering performance of 21.07 in Incheon.
Germany’s Marius Kusch rounded out the podium in 21.04. He was also the bronze medalist in Shanghai in 21.09.
GOLD – Kate Douglass (USA), 56.57
SILVER – Yu Yiting (CHN), 57.44
BRONZE – Beata Nelson (USA), 57.53
Not long after her World Record-setting feat in the 200m breast, Douglass was back at it, diving in for the women’s 100m IM.
Douglass mustered an impressive 56.57 gold medal-earning swim to beat out China’s Yu Yiting and fellow American Beata Nelson.
Yu scored silver in 57.44 to eke out 2nd place ahead of Nelson’s 57.53.
Douglass’ performance represents a new personal best, surpassing the 56.97 posted in Incheon. She remains the #2 American performer ever, with only Gretchen Walsh’s 55.98 World Record positioned ahead of her.
Yu’s time is a new Chinese Record and Asian Record, slicing .07 off the 57.51 from Shanghai.
GOLD – Leon Marchand (FRA), 49.92 *World Cup Record
SILVER – Noe Ponti (SUI), 50.39
BRONZE – Thomas Ceccon (ITA), 51.35
Frenchman Marchand ripped a time of 49.92 to establish a new World Cup Record and secure his 3rd World Cup victory in the men’s 100m IM.
Marchand’s outing also checks in as a new European Record, making him the first-ever man from his continent to dip under the 50-second barrier.
In fact, he’s just the 2nd man from anywhere in the world to hit a 49-point time, now ranked the #2 performer all-time behind American Caeleb Dressel’s World Record of 49.28.
Fresh off his 100m fly victory, Ponti posted 50.39 for a new Swiss national record while Italy’s Thomas Ceccon notched 51.35 for bronze.
As a footnote:
Kate Douglass posted the third fastest All-Time Performance in the W 100 IM (SCM) after breaking the World Record (yet again) in the W 200 BR (SCM).
Fun Fact:
To date, Leon Marchand and Regan Smith have won more gold medals than the Australian Swimming Federation at the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup.
LMAO!
Grow up!
2024 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup
Gold Medals
USA – 20
AUS – 6
you keep posting this, it won’t be as special each time…..
2024 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup
Gold Medals
USA – 20
CHN – 14
FRA – 7
AUS – 6
RSA – 6
SUI – 6
Just to spice things up.
USA Swimming
2024 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup
Gold Medals
Men – 3 (C. Clark, T. Julian, T. Julian)
Women – 17
Total – 20
The domestic male scene leaves alot to be desired.
Its like programs are cutting mens swimming and limiting roster spots compared to women. crazy
Or the men are sitting at home licking their wounds from the 2024 Summer Olympics. Fall off the horse, get back on again.
DunCHAD SCOTT
MY DADDY
Frisky Leon is going to destroy multiple WR in Budapest
Kate Douglass is untouchable in SC except in the sprints
The 200 backstroke for men still sucks
I think it’s just an event with comparatively little innovation in the past 10 years, and Larkin and Pierson and Lochte were all really really good.
But swimmers today aren’t even close. Their times suck. They are so far from Peirsol and Larkin’s WRs.
curious how much prize $$ Kate D will make in 2024. between World Cup, Olympics, LC world champs in Doha, SC world champs in Budapest. $400k??
And that’s still pocket money compared to the highest paid ball players running around. Really sucks for the work that these clean elite swimmers get reimbursed compared to a number of dirty average ball players around the place.
I wouldn’t say they’re gradually tapering down, but they’re definitely inadvertently doing less yards each week because of the repeated competition.
Former Masters swimmer and coach Loretta (Retta) thrives on a non-stop but productive schedule. Nowadays, that includes having earned her MBA while working full-time in IT while owning French 75 Boutique while also providing swimming insight for BBC.
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