SWIMMING: Hosszu wins four, but Morozov and Campbell win World Cup seasonal titles

FINA World Cup seasonal winners Cate Campbell (AUS) and Vladimir Morozov (RUS) (Photo: FINA)

Sometimes, it really is quality over quantity.

Australia’s Cate Campbell entered the final leg of the FINA Swimming World Cup in Doha, Qatar with a 24-point lead over Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu for the women’s seasonal title and a $150,000 first prize.

Again, Hosszu won more events – four in all – but despite winning two events and a silver, Campbell scored the top bonus points with her 52.61 win in the 100 m Free and captured both the third cluster title and the overall seasonal title. Hosszu finished second in the seasonal race (worth $100,000) and tied for second in the third cluster standings.

The men’s seasonal title was already decided, with Vladimir Morozov (RUS) having clinched his third career title. But he won all three of his events – 50-100 m Frees and the 50 m Back – and moved up to finish second in the final cluster standings behind Dutch Breaststroke star Arno Kamminga. For the season, Morozov finished with 333 points to 234 for Danas Rapsys (LTU) and 195 for Kamminga.

American Michael Andrew also finished the season with 195 total points; he won two events (100 m Back and 50 m Fly) and medaled in two others. He was the only U.S. entrant in Doha.

Rapsys (200-400 m Free), Japan’s Yasuhiro Koseki (50-100 m Breast) and South Africa’s Chad le Clos (100-200 Fly) won two individual events each for the men. Dutch Backstroker Kira Toussaint won the 50-100 m Backs and Brazil’s Jhennifer Conceicao won the two 50-100 m Breast as the other two-event winners.

In addition to the $1,500-1,000-500-400-300-200 for places 1-6 in each event, bonuses for the two-meet Kazan-Doha “cluster” were $50,000-35,000-30,000-20,000-10,000-5,000-4,000-3,000. The seasonal bonuses of $150,000-100,000-50,000 were for the top three in each gender. Winners and other notable placers:

FINA Swimming World Cup
Doha (QAT) ~ 7-9 November 2019
(Full results here)

Men: 50 m Free: Vladimir Morozov (RUS), 21.83. 100 m Free: Morozov (RUS), 48.50. 200 m Free: Danas Rapsys (LTU), 1:45.40. 400 m Free: Rapsys (LTU), 3:47.87. 1,500 m Free: Mykhallo Romanchuk (UKR), 14:51.61.

50 m Back: Morozov (RUS), 24.75 (2. Michael Andrew (USA), 24.79). 100 m Back: Andrew (USA), 54.07. 200 m Back: Bradley Woodward (AUS), 1:58.42.

50 m Breast: Yasuhiro Koseki (JPN), 27.07 (3. Arno Kamminga (NED), 27.12. 100 m Breast: Koseki (JPN), 59.11 (2. Kamminga (NED), 59.25; 3. Anton Chupkov (RUS), 59.83). 200 m Breast: Chupkov (RUS), 2:08.37 (2. Kamminga (NED), 2:08.39).

50 m Fly: Andrew (USA), 22.94. 100 m Fly: Chad le Clos (RSA), 51.70 (3. Andrew (USA), 52.38). 200 m Fly: Le Clos (RSA), 1:57.66.

200 m Medley: Keita Sunama (JPN), 1:59.28 (7. Andrew (USA), 2:05.97). 400 m Medley: Balazs Hollo (HUN), 4:15.17.

Cluster III leaders: 1. Arno Kamminga (NED), 78; 2. Vladimir Morozov (RUS), 69; 3. Yasuhiro Koskei (JPN), 66.

Season leaders: 1. Vladimir Morozov (RUS), 333; 2. Danas Rapsys (LTU), 234; 3. Arno Kamminga (NED), 195 (4. Michael Andrew (USA), 195).

Women: 50 m Free: Cate Campbell (AUS), 24.11 (2. Michelle Coleman (SWE), 24.50). 100 m Free: Cate Campbell (AUS), 52.61 (2. Bronte Campbell (AUS), 53.37; 3. Coleman (SWE), 53.39). 200 m Free: Zsuzsanna Jakabos (HUN), 1:58.86 (4. Coleman (SWE), 1:59.71). 400 m Free: Marlene Kahler (AUT), 4:10.51. 800 m Free: Tjasa Oder (SLO), 8:34.65.

50 m Back: Kira Toussaint (NED), 27.80. 100 m Back: Toussaint (NED), 59.14 (5. Hosszu (HUN), 1:01.52). 200 m Back: Emily Seebohm (AUS), 2:08.54.

50 m Breast: Jhennifer Conceicao (BRA), 30.93. 100 m Breast: Conceicao (BRA), 1:08.28.
200 m Breast: Eszter Bekesi (HUN), 2:28.24

50 m Fly: Jeanette Ottesen (DEN), 26.06 (2. Cate Campbell (AUS), 26.23; 3. Coleman (SWE), 26.76). 100 m Fly: Katinka Hosszu (HUN), 58.19. 200 m Fly: Hosszu (HUN), 2:08.60.

200 m Medley: Hosszu (HUN), 2:09.89. 400 m Medley: Hosszu (HUN), 4:37.39.

Cluster III leaders: 1. Cate Campbell (AUS), 114; 2. tie, Katinka Hosszu (HUN) and Kira Toussaint (NED), 72.

Season leaders: 1. Cate Campbell (AUS), 347; 2. Katinka Hosszu (HUN), 312; 3. Michelle Coleman (SWE), 174.

Mixed: 4×100 m Free: Australia (Woodward, Graham, B. Campbell. C. Campbell), 3:29.55. 4×100 m Medley: Australia (Woodward, Packard, Sheridan, C. Campbell), 3:46.77.