2016 ENERGY STANDARD CUP
- Saturday, April 30 – Sunday, May 1, 2016
- Lignano, Italy
- Meet Preview (Including Prize Money Breakdown)
- Live stream link
- Full results
- Prize Winners document
Italy’s Gabriele Detti and Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu each earned €18,000 bonuses for their performances at the Energy Standard Cup in Italy over the weekend.
The top 5 men and top 5 women in combined points over 4 individual events won prize money bonuses. We’ve got the full scoring system and winners below:
Prize Money Winners:
Men:
- Gabriele Detti – 75 points
- Simone Sabbioni – 65 points
- T-3 Evgeny Rylov – 60 points
- T-3 Andrii Govorov – 60 points
- Piero Codia – 57 points
Women:
- Katinka Hosszu – 80 points
- Silvia di Pietro – 70 points
- Sara Francheschi – 57 points
- Daryna Zevina – 55 points
- Mariia Liver – 52 points
Junior/Youth Prize Winners
The meet featured three classes in each event: Youth (boys born in 2000 or later, girls born 2002 or later), Junior (boys born in 1998 or 1999, girls born in 2000 and 2001) and Open. Open swimmers earned prize money, while the junior and youth swimmers with the highest point totals earned prize packages.
- Youth Girls: Daria Vaskina – 70 points
- Youth Boys: Kliment Kolesnikov – 80 points
- Junior Girls: Giorgia Romei – 75 points
- Junior Boys: Nicolo Martinenghi – 60 points
Scoring System
Each athlete can swim between 3 and 5 events. Each event will earn a swimmer points based on their places in up to 4 individual events.
Event Points:
- 1st: 20
- 2nd: 15
- 3rd: 12
- 4th: 10
- 5th: 8
- 6th: 6
- 7th: 4
- 8th: 3
The top 5 men and top 5 women in total combined points at the end of the meet will earn prizes:
- 1st place: €18,000 (about $20,600 USD)
- 2nd place: €12,000 (about $13,700 USD)
- 3rd place: €10,000 (about $11,400 USD)
- 4th place: €6000 (about $6,800 USD)
- 5th place: €4000 (about $4500 USD)
There will be extra prizes for swimmers in the Junior and Youth categories, and there are also huge bonuses for world and European records:
- World record: €30,000 (about $34,300 USD)
- European record: €20,000 (about $22.900 USD)