The 2009

FINA Swimming World Cup The FINA Swimming World Cup is an international series of short course () swimming meets organized by FINA, the International Federation for swimming. Launched in 1988, the FINA Swimming World Cup gathers world-class swimmers in a series of two-da ...

was a series of five

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(25 m) swimming meets, held in October and November 2009.

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

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on 23–25 October was cancelled.

Results

Overall World Cup

At each meet of the World Cup circuit in 2009, the FINA Points Table was used to rank all swim performances at the meet. The top 10 men and top 10 women were then be awarded World Cup points. Bonus points were awarded for a

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broken (20 points) or equalled (10 points). The number of World Cup points awarded was doubled for the final meet of the World Cup in Singapore. The overall rankings are shown below.

Men

Women

Event winners

50 m freestyle

100 m freestyle

200 m freestyle

400 m freestyle

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

50 m backstroke

100 m backstroke

200 m backstroke

50 m breaststroke

* Jessica Hardy set a new

of 28.96 seconds in the heats of this event in Stockholm.

100 m breaststroke

2008 Australian Olympic team Leisel Jones - Sarah Ewart

200 m breaststroke

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

50 m butterfly

100 m butterfly

200 m butterfly

100 m individual medley

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set a new

of 58.51 seconds in the heats of this event in Durban.
** Sergey Fesikov set a new

of 50.95 seconds in the heats of this event in Berlin.

200 m individual medley

400 m individual medley

Legend:

References

External links

FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup 2009 official site
{{FINA Swimming World Cup FINA Swimming World Cup Fina Swimming World Cup, 2009