The race for the World Cup’s second cluster points win (and the $50,000 bonus that comes along with it) is coming down to the wire on the men’s side, with Cameron van der Burgh and Masato Sakai going back and forth in Beijing.
Sakai outdid van der Burgh in terms of medals in Beijing, earning 3 golds while van der Burgh took 2 gold and a silver. But the South African breaststroker van der Burgh managed to maintain his points lead by taking home the 24-point top performance bonus for his 50 breaststroke.
Van der Burgh leads the series points by over 100, and leads the cluster points 105-87 over Sakai.
On the women’s side, Katinka Hosszu continues to lead handily with 357 points.
WORLD CUP SCORING
Medal Points
Each individual event yields points for the top 3 finishers.
- Gold: 12 points
- Silver: 9 points
- Bronze: 6 points
World Record Bonuses
Each world record yields 20 points. Tying a world record is worth 10 points.
Performance Bonuses
The top 3 male and top 3 female swims of the meet earn bonus points. Top swims are determined based on FINA points. Only the top-scoring swim from each athlete is counted.
- First: 24 points
- Second: 18 points
- Third: 12 points
Beijing PERFORMANCE BONUSES:
Men:
- Cameron van der Burgh: 50 breast, 960 FINA points
- Xu Jiayu: 50 back, 927 FINA points
- Mao Feilian: 200 breast, 912 FINA points
Women:
- Emily Seebohm: 100 back, 976 FINA points
- Cate Campbell: 100 free, 950 FINA points
- Bronte Campbell: 100 free, 949 FINA points
Women’s Points
| Rank | Athlete | TOTAL POINTS | TOTAL: Beijing | TOTAL Cluster 2 |
| 1 | Katinka Hosszu | 357 | 66 | 195 |
| 2 | Emily Seebohm | 225 | 57 | 114 |
| 3 | Zsuzsanna Jakabos | 111 | 36 | 78 |
| 4 | Alia Atkinson | 84 | 24 | 60 |
| 5 | Cate Campbell | 78 | 42 | 78 |
| 6 | Missy Franklin | 72 | 18 | 42 |
| 6 | Vitalina Simonova | 72 | 9 | 30 |
| 8 | Jeanette Ottesen | 66 | 24 | 42 |
| 9 | Katie Meili | 42 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Bronte Campbell | 39 | 30 | 39 |
| 10 | Natalie Coughlin | 39 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Breeja Larson | 33 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Daria Ustinova | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Madeline Groves | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Rika Omoto | 21 | 12 | 21 |
| 15 | Shao Yiwen | 21 | 9 | 9 |
| 15 | Lisa Zaiser | 21 | 0 | 9 |
| 15 | Cammile Adams | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Franziska Hentke | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Lauren Boyle | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Natalia Lovtcova | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | Vien Nguyen | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | Holly Barratt | 18 | 0 | 18 |
| 23 | Hou Yawen | 18 | 0 | 18 |
| 23 | Beryl Gastaldello | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | Claire Donahue | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | Diletta Carli | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | Lindsay Vrooman | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | Melanie Margalis | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | Lu Ying | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| 30 | Shi Jinglin | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| 30 | Li Shuang | 15 | 0 | 15 |
| 30 | Liu Xiaoyu | 15 | 0 | 15 |
| 30 | Marie Wattel | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | Mie Nielsen | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | Chen Jie | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| 36 | Fu Yuanhui | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| 36 | Guo Junjun | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| 36 | Shen Duo | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| 36 | Wang Guoyue | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| 36 | Zhang Xinyu | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| 36 | Sze Hang Yu | 12 | 6 | 12 |
| 36 | Anna Santamans | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | Charlotte Bonnet | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | Zhang Yuhan | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 46 | Liu Zige | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| 46 | Zhang Jiaying | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| 46 | Zhang Yufei | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| 46 | Brianna Throssell | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 46 | Bronte Barratt | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 46 | Dar’Ya Stepanyuk | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 46 | Li Bingjie | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 46 | Svetlana Chimrova | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 46 | Tessa Wallace | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 | Micah Lawrence | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| 55 | Qiu Yuhan | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| 55 | Sun Minje | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| 55 | Zhu Menghui | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| 55 | Belinda Hocking | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 55 | Cheung Hui Yan Cheyenne | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 55 | Jordis Steinegger | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 55 | Madison Kennedy | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 55 | Daryna Zevina | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 | Lara Grangeon | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 | Mariia Astashkina | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 | Martina Caramignoli | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 | Sasha Touretski | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 | Veronika Popova | 6 | 0 | 0 |
Men’s Points
| Rank | Athlete | TOTAL POINTS | TOTAL: Beijing | TOTAL Cluster 2 |
| 1 | Cameron van der Burgh | 201 | 57 | 105 |
| 2 | Masato Sakai | 96 | 36 | 84 |
| 3 | David Verraszto | 87 | 33 | 57 |
| 4 | Ashley Delaney | 84 | 30 | 57 |
| 5 | Chad Le Clos | 81 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Yuki Shirai | 69 | 27 | 57 |
| 7 | Dan Smith | 66 | 24 | 54 |
| 8 | Katsumi Nakamura | 60 | 24 | 48 |
| 9 | Nicholas Fink | 54 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | Tomas Elliot | 51 | 18 | 39 |
| 11 | Camille Lacourt | 48 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | Cody Miller | 42 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Xu Jiayu | 39 | 39 | 39 |
| 13 | David Brandl | 39 | 18 | 33 |
| 13 | Tommy Sucipto | 39 | 15 | 27 |
| 13 | Kazmir Boscovic | 39 | 12 | 27 |
| 13 | Myles Brown | 39 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | Nic Brown | 36 | 6 | 24 |
| 18 | Josh Beaver | 36 | 0 | 24 |
| 20 | Viacheslav Prudnikov | 33 | 9 | 21 |
| 20 | Akihiro Yamaguchi | 33 | 0 | 21 |
| 20 | Geoff Cheah | 33 | 0 | 21 |
| 20 | Matthew Treloar | 33 | 0 | 21 |
| 20 | Josh Schneider | 33 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | Jacob Hansford | 30 | 12 | 18 |
| 25 | Te Haumi Maxwell | 30 | 6 | 18 |
| 25 | Kenneth To | 30 | 0 | 18 |
| 25 | Velimir Stjepanovic | 30 | 0 | 18 |
| 25 | Marco Koch | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | Tim Phillips | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | Quah Zheng Wen | 27 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | Mao Feilian | 24 | 24 | 24 |
| 32 | Gregorio Paltrinieri | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | Ippei Watanabe | 21 | 0 | 9 |
| 34 | Jan Micka | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | Tom Shields | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | Hu Yiyong | 18 | 0 | 6 |
| 37 | Andrii Govorov | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | Danila Izotov | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 37 | Hiromasa Fujimori | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| 41 | Yan Zibei | 15 | 15 | 15 |
| 41 | Aleksandr Kudashev | 15 | 0 | 6 |
| 41 | Brendan McHugh | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 41 | Chase Kalisz | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 41 | Evgeny Sedov | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 41 | Grigory Tarasevich | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 41 | Nikita Lobintsev | 15 | 0 | 0 |
| 48 | Li Zhuhao | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| 48 | Wang Yizhe | 12 | 12 | 12 |
| 48 | Damien Joly | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 48 | Daniel Smith | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 48 | Jeremy Stravius | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 48 | Mehdy Metella | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 48 | Phillip Heintz | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 48 | Viktor Bromer | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 56 | Ban Bao | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| 56 | He Jianbin | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| 56 | Zhang Jie | 9 | 9 | 9 |
| 56 | Benjamin Doyle | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 56 | Clement Mignon | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 56 | Federico Turrini | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 56 | Ganesh Pedurand | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 56 | Jordan Bouchaut | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 56 | Jordan Coelho | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 56 | Jordan Pothain | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 56 | Keita Sunama | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 56 | Pavel Sankovich | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 56 | Peter John Stevens | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 56 | Shun Wang | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 70 | Cao Jiwen | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| 70 | Marco Loughran | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| 70 | Ning Zetao | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| 70 | Shi Weijia | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| 70 | Wang Shun | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| 70 | Alexander Osipenko | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 70 | Benjamin Stasiulis | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 70 | David Morgan | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 70 | Evgeny Drobotov | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 70 | Jayden Hadler | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 70 | Kazuki Kohinata | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 70 | Mohammed Al Ghaferi | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 70 | Renato Prono | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 83 | Nosy Pelagie | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 83 | Tommaso D’Orsogna | 3 | 0 | 0 |