Katinka Hosszu made over $300,000 last season on the World Cup tour, and after just one day of the 2014 edition, it looks like Hosszu is back for more.
The Hungarian was the top money-earner on day 1 of the World Cup in Doha, Qatar, pulling in $16,500 in American dollars, boosted by her $10,000 World Record bonus. Hosszu knocked off the short course meters world mark in the 200 IM, one of her four wins on the day.
For the men, there’s a tie for the top spot. South Africa’s Chad le Clos, who was the top male money-earner last year and joined Hosszu over $300,000, won two events and earned $3,000. So did Australia’s Thomas Fraser-Holmes, and the two are the leading earners on the men’s side.
Just behind them is American Tom Shields, who won an event and wound up second to Le Clos in the 50 fly. Shields is continuing an exhausting schedule, heading straight from U.S. Nationals to Australia for the Pan Pacific Championships, then straight to Doha for the World Cup. $2,500 and a new American record will likely make that schedule more bearable, though, and the Doha meet is only at its halfway point.
Second for the women is Inge Dekker of the Netherlands. Dekker, like Le Clos and Fraser-Holmes, won two races on day 1.
The top 3 in each event earn money on the World Cup circuit, plus athletes earn money for their standing in each individual “cluster,” or set of meets within the World Cup’s 7 overall meets. The Doha World Cup pairs with this weekend’s Dubai World Cup to form the first cluster. The top 6 finishers in this cluster will earn a bonus, starting at $50,000 for the winners.
Here’s a quick refresher on individual race prize monies – if you want a more full explanation, follow this link.
- 1st place: $1500
- 2nd place: $1000
- 3rd place: $500
- World Record bonus: +$10,000
Men’s Money-Earners
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Total Money Earned |
| 1 | Chad le Clos | South Africa | 3000 |
| 1 | Thomas Fraser-Holmes | Australia | 3000 |
| 3 | Tom Shields | USA | 2500 |
| 4 | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 2000 |
| 5 | Christian Diener | Germany | 1500 |
| 5 | Daniel Gyurta | Hungary | 1500 |
| 5 | George Bovell | Trinidad & Tobago | 1500 |
| 8 | David Verraszto | Hungary | 1000 |
| 8 | Eugene Godsoe | USA | 1000 |
| 8 | Fabio Scozzoli | Italy | 1000 |
| 8 | Konrad Czerniak | Poland | 1000 |
| 8 | Leith Shankland | South Africa | 1000 |
| 8 | Marco Koch | Germany | 1000 |
| 8 | Pawel Korzeniowski | Poland | 1000 |
| 8 | Velimir Stjepanovic | Serbia | 1000 |
| 16 | Ahmed Mathlouthi | Tunisia | 500 |
| 16 | Bobby Hurley | Australia | 500 |
| 16 | Martin Schweitzer | Switzerland | 500 |
| 16 | Martin Spitzer | Austria | 500 |
| 16 | Nikolay Skvortsov | Russia | 500 |
| 16 | Oussama Mellouli | Tunisia | 500 |
| 16 | Steffen Deibler | Germany | 500 |
| 16 | Yukihiro Takahashi | Japan | 500 |
Women’s Money-Earners
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Total Money Earned |
| 1 | Katinka Hosszu | Hungary | 16500 |
| 2 | Inge Dekker | Netherlands | 3000 |
| 3 | Aleksanrda Urbanczyk | Poland | 2000 |
| 4 | Alia Atkinson | Jamaica | 1500 |
| 4 | Mireia Belmonte Garcia | Spain | 1500 |
| 4 | Daryna Zevina | Ukraine | 1500 |
| 4 | Marieke D’Cruz | Australia | 1500 |
| 8 | Breeja Larson | USA | 1000 |
| 8 | Caitlin Leverenz | USA | 1000 |
| 8 | Evelyn Verraszto | Hungary | 1000 |
| 8 | Julia Hassler | Liechtenstein | 1000 |
| 8 | Danielle Villars | Switzerland | 1000 |
| 13 | Carolina Colorado Henao | Colombia | 500 |
| 13 | Hrafnhildur Luthersdottir | Iceland | 500 |
| 13 | Lisa Zaiser | Austria | 500 |