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Kate Douglass won $30,000 in bonuses on Thursday at the Swimming World Cup, including two ‘crowns’ awards for sweeping races in this year’s series. Archive photo via Jack Spitser/Spitser Photography
Douglass’ time slashed 1.44 seconds off her previous record of 2:14.16, set last week in Incheon. Her swim last week broke a super-suited record from 2009.
French Olympic champion Leon Marchand will be in the water tonight on day one of the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup in Singapore.
Scott fired off a time of 3:34.46 to erase Hackett’s Commonwealth Record of 3:34.58 set in 2002 while obliterating James Guy’s British Record of 3:36.35.
Tzen Wei Teong lowers his own Singapore 100 fly record, breaking 50.00 for the second time in his career. Teong is now the owner of three Singapore records.
Noe Ponti takes down the Swiss 100 IM record for the 4th time in the last year, but finished 2nd in the race at the World Cup in Singapore on Thursday.
October 31st, 2024
Swimmers at the third-and-final stop of the 2024 Swimming World Cup earned $70,000 in bonuses on Thursday, including $30,000 in total from World Record breaker Kate Douglass.
In addition to the $10,000 she earned from obliterating her own World Record in the 200 breaststroke, Douglass also earned a pair of $10,000 bonuses for successfully completing ‘crowns’ in both the 200 breast and the 100 IM, winning the races in times of 2:12.72 and 56.57, respectively.
Poland’s Kasia Wasick won her third-straight in the 50 free, South Afirca’s Pieter Coetze won his third-straight in the 200 back, Leon Marchand won his third-straight 100 IM (including a tie in Incheon); and Switzerland’s Noe Ponti won his third-straight in the 100 fly. Marchand’s win in the 100 IM over Ponti and Ponti’s win in the 100 fly over Nyls Korstanje were the closest to upsets on day 1.
These five are among a whopping 22 possible triple crowns at the meet. Every crown opportunity on day 1 was achieved.
Crowns were added to last year’s meet as a way of incentivizing athletes to participate in the full series. Last season, there were 20 crowns awarded – interestingly, almost all of them were won by swimmers who do not have a shot at one in 2024. The exceptions are Siobhan Haughey in the upcoming women’s 100 and 200 freestyles and Qin Haiyang in the upcoming men’s 50 breaststroke.
World Aquatics cited the success of last year’s programs as a reason for continuing it this season.
How much money does Kate Douglass have?!
Great article! However, 6 crowns + 1 WR = $60,000…? Why not $70,000?
Good catch. Missed updating after we got the Marchand 100 IM confirmation.
(World Aquatics has confirmed that the 100 IM tie in Incheon is as good as a solo win for Leon in terms of Crown purposes).
Braden Keith is the Editor-in-Chief and a co-founder/co-owner of SwimSwam.com. He first got his feet wet by building The Swimmers’ Circle beginning in January 2010, and now comes to SwimSwam to use that experience and help build a new leader in the sport of swimming. Aside from his life on the InterWet, …
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