SWIMMING: World records for Morozov and Xu in Tokyo World Cup

Russia's two-time World Cup champ Vladimir Morozov (Photo: Bob Stanton)

The FINA Swimming World Cup is coming to a close, but with plenty of fireworks as one world record was set and another equaled at the sixth leg of the tour, in Tokyo (JPN).

On Friday, Russia’s Vladimir Morozov wrapped up the seasonal title with four wins (three count for points) in the 50-100 m Frees, the 50 m Fly and he equaled his own short-course world record of 50.26 in the 100 m Medley from earlier in the season. That scored 1,002 points in the FINA table and gave him top points for the meet, plus 10 extra points for equaling the record for a meet total of 70, and 342 for the tour, well ahead of any of his pursuers. That will be worth a $150,000 bonus after next week’s finale in Singapore.

He wasn’t the only record-setter, however, as China’s Jiayu Xu finished a sweep of the 50-100-200 m Backstrokes, winning the 100 m event on Sunday with a world short-course record of 48.88. That smashed the existing mark of 48.90 by Russia’s Kliment Kolesnikov from 2017. Because he broke the record, Xu will receive a $10,000 bonus!

Those performances overshadowed the continuing battle between reigning World Cup champ Sarah Sjostrom (SWE) and five-time winner Katinka Hosszu (HUN). This time, Hosszu had the upper hand and won four events – the 100-200-400 m Medleys and the 200 m Fly (along with a couple of other bronze medals) while Sjostrom managed a win in the 50 m Free, but then four silvers and a bronze.

In terms of meet points, Hosszu earned 36 for her three wins, while Sjostrom scored 30 for her win and two of the silvers plus 18 bonus points for the second-best performance of the meet on the FINA scoring tables. That would add 12 points to Sjostrom’s lead – on our scorecard – heading into the final meet, 285-258 (FINA will post the official standings later).

The meet prize money was $1,500-1,000-500-400-300-200 for the top six places. The season will conclude next week in Singapore; summaries from Tokyo:

FINA Swimming World Cup
Tokyo (JPN) ~ 9-11 November 2018
(Full results here)

Men

50 m Freestyle: 1. Vladimir Morozov (RUS), 20.49; 2. Michael Andrew (USA), 21.05; 3. Kyle Chalmers (AUS), 21.09. Also: 5. Blake Pieroni (USA), 21.40.

100 m Free: 1. Morozov (RUS), 45.16; 2. Chalmers (AUS), 45.78; 3. Pieroni (USA), 46.79.

200 m Free: 1. Chalmers (AUS), 1:41.83; 2. Pieroni (USA), 1:42.16; 3. Shun Wang (CHN), 1:43.43.

400 m Free: 1. Mack Horton (AUS), 3:40.58; 2. Kosuke Hagino (JPN), 3:42.24; 3. Mykhallo Romanchuk (UKR), 3:42.63.

1,500 m Free: 1. Romanchuk (RUS), 14:27.93; 2. Syogo Takeda (JPN), 14:33.26; 3. Sergii Frolov (UKR), 14:39.22.

50 m Back: 1. Jaiyu Xu (CHN), 22.87; 2. Andrew (USA), 23.17; 3. Takeshi Kawamoto (JPN), 23.36.

100 m Back: 1. Xu (CHN), 48.88 (World Short-Course Record; old, 48.90, Kliment Kolesnikov (RUS), 2017); 2. Mitch Larkin (AUS), 49.54; 3. Masaki Kaneko (JPN), 50.48. Also: 8. Andrew (USA), 52.27.

200 m Back: 1. Xu (CHN), 1:48.32; 2. Larkin (AUS), 1:48.51; 3. Christian Diener (GER), 1:50.77.

50 m Breaststroke: 1. Peter Stevens (SLO), 26.03; 2. Kirill Prigoda (RUS), 26.19; 3. Yasuhiro Koseki (JPN), 26.20.

100 m Breast: 1. Prigoda (RUS), 56.58; 2. Koseki (JPN), 56.68; 3. Zibei Yan (CHN), 58.98.

200 m Breast: 1. Prigoda (RUS), 2:01.30; 2. Anton Chupkov (RUS), 2:01.57; 3. Koseki (JPN), 2:02.84.

50 m Butterfly: 1. Morozov (RUS), 22.29; 2. Andrew (USA), 22.39; 3. Takeshi Kaamoto (JPN), 22.60.

100 m Fly: 1. Kawamoto (JPN), 50.28; 2. Yuuya Yajima (JPN), 51.02; 3. Yauhen Tsurkin (BLR), 51.07.

200 m Fly: 1. Zhuhao Li (CHN), 1:50.92; 2. Takumi Terada (JPN), 1:52.00; 3. Nao Horomura (JPN), 1:52.04.

100 m Medley: 1. Morozov (RUS), 50.26 (equals World Short-Course Record; 50.26 by Morozov, 2018); 2. Hiromasa Fujimori (JPN), 51.58; 3. Andrew (USA), 51.59.

200 m Medley: 1. Shun Wang (CHN), 1:51.45; 2. Hagino (JPN), 1:52.50; 3. Keita Sunama (JPN), 1:53.96.

400 m Medley: 1. Hagino (JPN), 4:01.93; 2. David Verraszto (HUN), 4:03.29; 3. Ippei Watanabe (JPN), 4:03.52.

Women

50 m Freestyle: 1. Sarah Sjostrom (SWE), 23.26; 2. Ranomi Kromowidjojo (NED), 23.40; 3. Femke Heemskerk (NED), 23.69.

100 m Free: 1. Kromowidjojo (NED), 51.26; 2. Heemskerk (NED), 51.38; 3. Sjostrom (SWE), 51.42.

200 m Free: 1. Heemskerk (NED), 1:51.91; 2. Sjostrom (SWE), 1:51.92; 3. Rio Shirai (JPN), 1:54.67.

400 m Free: 1. Heemskerk (NED), 4:01.29; 2. Miyu Nanba (JPN), 4:03.80; 3. Natsumi Shibata (JPN), 4:04.20.

800 m Free: 1. Mayuko Gotou (JPN), 8:19.74; 2. Boglarka Kapas (HUN), 8:19.87; 3. Miyu Nanba (JPN), 8:22.44.

50 m Backstroke: 1. Kira Toussaint (NED), 26.21; 2. Kromowidjojo (NED), 26.24; 3. Emily Seebohm (AUS), 26.26.

100 m Back: 1. Minna Atherton (AUS), 56.04; 2. Toussaint (NED), 56.24; 3. Hosszu (HUN), 56.47.

200 m Back: 1. Seebohm (AUS), 2:01.13; 2. Atherton (AUS), 2:02.88; 3. Hosszu (HUN), 2:02.89.

50 m Breaststroke: 1. Alia Atkinson (JAM), 28.95; 2. Yuliya Efimova (RUS), 29.56; 3. Seebohm (AUS), 29.99.

100 Breast: 1. Atkinson (JAM), 1:03.09; 2. Efimova (RUS), 1:03.42; 3. Siobhan O’Connor (GBR), 1:05.07.

200 m Breast: 1. Efimova (RUS), 2:16.29; 2. Vitalina Simonova (RUS), 2:19.53; 3. Reona Aoki (JPN), 2:19.87.

50 m Fly: 1. Kromowidjojo (NED), 24.51; 2. Sjostrom (SWE), 24.58; 3. Ikee (JPN), 24.80.

100 m Fly: 1. Rikako Ikee (JPN), 55.31; 2. Sjostrom (SWE), 55.56; 3. Yufei Zhang (CHN), 56.18.

200 m Fly: 1. Hosszu (HUN), 2:03.01; 2. Yufei Zhang (CHN), 2:03.50; 3. Franziska Hentke (GER), 2:03.73.

100 m Medley: 1. Hosszu (HUN), 57.25; 2. Sjostrom (SWE), 57.28; 3. Ikee (JPN), 58.17.

200 m Medley: 1. Hosszu (HUN), 2:04.65; 2. Ohhashi (JPN), 2:05.29; 3. Shiwen Ye (CHN), 2:07.09.

400 m Medley: Hosszu (HUN), 4;21.91; 2. Yui Ohhashi (JPN), 4:22.73; 3. Sakiko Shimizu (JPN), 4:28.62.

Mixed

4×50 m Free: 1. Japan club, 1:41.72; 2. Australia, 1:32.25; 3. Germany, 1:32.62.

4×50 m Medley: 1. Australia (Atherton, Wilson, Seebohm, Chalmers), 1:39.74; 2. Japan club, 1:40.62; 3. Germany, 1:40.69.