# 2009 FINA Swimming World Cup

The 2009 FINA Swimming World Cup was a series of five short course (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 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on 23–25 October was cancelled.
| Meet | Dates | Location | Results |
| 1 | 16–17 October | Durban, South Africa | Results |
| 2 | 6–7 November | Moscow, Russia | Results |
| 3 | 10–11 November | Stockholm, Sweden | Results |
| 4 | 14–15 November | Berlin, Germany | Results |
| 5 | 21–22 November | Singapore | Results |

## 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 awarded World Cup points. Bonus points were awarded for a world record 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.
| Rank on FINA Points | World Cup points awarded |
| 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 16 |
| 4 | 13 |
| 5 | 10 |
| 6 | 7 |
| 7 | 5 |
| 8 | 3 |
| 9 | 2 |
| 10 | 1 |
The overall rankings are shown below.

#### Men

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Points awarded (Bonus) | Points awarded (Bonus) | Points awarded (Bonus) | Points awarded (Bonus) | Points awarded (Bonus) | Total |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | RSA | RUS | SWE | GER | SIN | Total |
| 1 | Cameron van der Burgh | South Africa | 16 | 25 | 25 | 25 (40) | 32 | 163 |
| 2 | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 25 | 20 | 16 | 20 | 50 | 131 |
| 3 | Peter Marshall | United States | 20 (20) | 7 | 13 (20) | | 26 (20) | 126 |
| 4 | Arkady Vyatchanin | Russia | 1 | 3 | 3 | 13 (20) | 40 | 80 |
| 5 | Evgeny Korotyshkin | Russia | | 13 (20) | | 5 (20) | | 58 |
| 6 | Paul Biedermann | Germany | | | | 10 (40) | | 50 |
| 7 | Felipe Silva | Brazil | | | 20 | 7 | 20 | 47 |
| 8 | Steffen Deibler | Germany | 10 | | | 16 (20) | | 46 |
| 9 | Sergey Fesikov | Russia | 7 | 10 | | 3 (20) | | 40 |
| 10 | George Du Rand | South Africa | 3 | 16 (20) | | | | 39 |
| 11 | Kaio de Almeida | Brazil | | | 10 (20) | | | 30 |
| 12 | Neil Versfeld | South Africa | 13 | | 7 | | 10 | 30 |
| 13 | Darian Townsend | South Africa | 5 | 2 | 2 | (20) | | 29 |
| 14 | Nicholas Santos | Brazil | | | | 1 | 14 | 15 |
| 15 | Markus Rogan | Austria | 2 | | 5 | | | 7 |
| 16 | Matthew Abood | Australia | | | | | 6 | 6 |
| 17 | Stanislav Donets | Russia | | 5 | | | | 5 |
| 18 | Christian Sprenger | Australia | | | | | 4 | 4 |
| 19 | Gerhard Zandberg | South Africa | | | | 2 | | 2 |
| 20 | Guilherme Guido | Brazil | | | | | 2 | 2 |
| 21 | Stefan Nystrand | Sweden | | | 1 | | | 1 |
| 22 | Igor Borysik | Ukraine | | 1 | | | | 1 |

#### Women

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Points awarded (Bonus) | Points awarded (Bonus) | Points awarded (Bonus) | Points awarded (Bonus) | Points awarded (Bonus) | Total |
| Rank | Name | Nationality | RSA | RUS | SWE | GER | SIN | Total |
| 1 | Jessica Hardy | United States | 20 (20) | 25 (20) | 20 (20) | 25 (20) | 40 | 210 |
| 2 | Therese Alshammar | Sweden | 25 (40) | 13 | 25 (20) | 7 | 50 (20) | 200 |
| 3 | Hinkelien Schreuder | Netherlands | 13 | 7 | 2 | 16 (20) | 26 | 84 |
| 4 | Marieke Guehrer | Australia | 16 | 20 (20) | 13 | 10 | | 79 |
| 5 | Zhao Jing | China | | | 16 (60) | | | 76 |
| 6 | Shiho Sakai | Japan | | | | 20 (40) | | 60 |
| 7 | Leisel Jones | Australia | | 1 | 3 | 13 (40) | | 57 |
| 8 | Liu Zige | China | | | (20) | 5 (20) | | 45 |
| 9 | Felicity Galvez | Australia | 10 | 10 | 5 (20) | | | 45 |
| 10 | Evelyn Verrasztó | Hungary | | 16 (20) | | | | 36 |
| 11 | Kathryn Meaklim | South Africa | | | | | 14 (20) | 34 |
| 12 | Francesca Halsall | Great Britain | | | 1 | | 32 | 33 |
| 13 | Sarah Katsoulis | Australia | | | | | 20 | 20 |
| 14 | Gao Chang | China | | | 10 | 3 | | 13 |
| 15 | Emily Seebohm | Australia | | | | | 10 | 10 |
| 16 | Aya Terakawa | Japan | | | 7 | | | 7 |
| 17 | Inge Dekker | Netherlands | 3 | | | | 4 | 7 |
| 18 | Fabíola Molina | Brazil | 7 | | | | | 7 |
| 19 | Elizabeth Simmonds | Great Britain | | | | | 6 | 6 |
| 20 | Kseniya Moskvina | Russia | | 5 | | | | 5 |
| 21 | Ranomi Kromowidjojo | Netherlands | 5 | | | | | 5 |
| 22 | Hanna-Maria Seppälä | Finland | | 3 | | | | 3 |
| 23 | Daniela Samulski | Germany | | | | 2 | | 2 |
| 24 | Whitney Myers | United States | | | | | 2 | 2 |
| 25 | Rikke Møller-Pedersen | Denmark | | 2 | | | | 2 |
| 26 | Lara Jackson | United States | 2 | | | | | 2 |
| 27 | Rie Kaneto | Japan | | | | 1 | | 1 |
| 28 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 1 | | | | | 1 |

### Event winners
#### 50 m freestyle

| Meet | Men | Men | Men | Women | Women | Women |
| Meet | Winner | Nationality | Time | Winner | Nationality | Time |
| Durban | Stefan Nystrand | Sweden | 21.29 | Therese Alshammar | Sweden | 23.74 |
| Moscow | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 20.88 (WC) | Marieke Guehrer | Australia | 23.92 |
| Stockholm | Frédérick Bousquet | France | 20.64 (WC) | Therese Alshammar | Sweden | 23.75 |
| Berlin | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 20.57 WC | Therese Alshammar | Sweden | 23.34 (WC) |
| Singapore | Nicholas Santos | Brazil | 20.75 | Therese Alshammar | Sweden | 23.27 WC |

#### 100 m freestyle

| Meet | Men | Men | Men | Women | Women | Women |
| Meet | Winner | Nationality | Time | Winner | Nationality | Time |
| Durban | Sergey Fesikov | Russia | 46.30 | Ranomi Kromowidjojo | Netherlands | 52.46 |
| Moscow | Sergey Fesikov | Russia | 45.87 | Jeanette Ottesen | Denmark | 52.22 |
| Stockholm | Stefan Nystrand | Sweden | 45.54 (WC) | Francesca Halsall | Great Britain | 51.61 (WC) |
| Berlin | Brent Hayden | Canada | 45.56 | Jeanette Ottesen | Denmark | 51.95 |
| Singapore | Matthew Abood | Australia | 45.46 WC | Francesca Halsall | Great Britain | 51.19 WC |

#### 200 m freestyle

| Meet | Men | Men | Men | Women | Women | Women |
| Meet | Winner | Nationality | Time | Winner | Nationality | Time |
| Durban | Darian Townsend | South Africa | 1:42.79 | Felicity Galvez | Australia | 1:57.60 |
| Moscow | Alexander Sukhorukov | Russia | 1:42.13 | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 1:54.02 |
| Stockholm | Brent Hayden | Canada | 1:41.65 | Coralie Balmy | France | 1:53.71 |
| Berlin | Paul Biedermann | Germany | 1:39.37 WR | Sarah Sjöström | Sweden | 1:53.77 |
| Singapore | Darian Townsend | South Africa | 1:41.65 | Petra Granlund | Sweden | 1:54.76 |

#### 400 m freestyle

| Meet | Men | Men | Men | Women | Women | Women |
| Meet | Winner | Nationality | Time | Winner | Nationality | Time |
| Durban | Dominik Meichtry | Switzerland | 3:42.09 | Jessica Pengelly | South Africa | 4:11.62 |
| Moscow | Nikita Lobintsev | Russia | 3:38.40 | Lotte Friis | Denmark | 4:01.96 |
| Stockholm | Mads Glæsner | Denmark | 3:38.78 | Coralie Balmy | France | 3:57.75 |
| Berlin | Paul Biedermann | Germany | 3:32.77 WR | Lotte Friis | Denmark | 4:01.21 |
| Singapore | Oussama Mellouli | Tunisia | 3:39.18 | Blair Evans | Australia | 4:02.77 |

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

| Meet | Men | Men | Men | Women | Women | Women |
| Meet | Winner | Nationality | Time | Winner | Nationality | Time |
| Durban | Heerden Herman | South Africa | 14:49.17 | Kathryn Meaklim | South Africa | 8:29.51 |
| Moscow | Pál Joensen | Faroe Islands | 14:32.64 | Lotte Friis | Denmark | 8:12.94 |
| Stockholm | Federico Colbertaldo | Italy | 14:28.35 WC | Lotte Friis | Denmark | 8:07.94 (WC) |
| Berlin | Federico Colbertaldo | Italy | 14:29.46 | Lotte Friis | Denmark | 8:04.61 WC |
| Singapore | Robert Hurley | Australia | 14:32.47 | Blair Evans | Australia | 8:17.21 |

#### 50 m backstroke

| Meet | Men | Men | Men | Women | Women | Women |
| Meet | Winner | Nationality | Time | Winner | Nationality | Time |
| Durban | Peter Marshall | United States | 22.75 (WR) | Hinkelien Schreuder | Netherlands | 26.55 (WC) |
| Moscow | Peter Marshall Stanislav Donets | United States Russia | 22.94 | Marieke Guehrer | Australia | 26.17 (WR) |
| Stockholm | Peter Marshall | United States | 22.73 (WR) | Zhao Jing | China | 25.82 WR |
| Berlin | Gerhard Zandberg | South Africa | 22.85 | Marieke Guehrer | Australia | 26.09 |
| Singapore | Peter Marshall | United States | 22.61 WR | Emily Seebohm | Australia | 26.55 |

#### 100 m backstroke

| Meet | Men | Men | Men | Women | Women | Women |
| Meet | Winner | Nationality | Time | Winner | Nationality | Time |
| Durban | Peter Marshall | United States | 49.40 (WC) | Fabíola Molina | Brazil | 57.77 |
| Moscow | Peter Marshall | United States | 49.49 | Kseniya Moskvina | Russia | 56.66 |
| Stockholm | Peter Marshall | United States | 49.29 WC | Shiho Sakai | Japan | 56.42 (WC) |
| Berlin | Aschwin Wildeboer | Spain | 49.55 | Shiho Sakai | Japan | 55.23 WR |
| Singapore | Guilherme Guido | Brazil | 49.63 | Marieke Guehrer | Australia | 56.97 |

#### 200 m backstroke

| Meet | Men | Men | Men | Women | Women | Women |
| Meet | Winner | Nationality | Time | Winner | Nationality | Time |
| Durban | George Du Rand | South Africa | 1:49.53 | Whitney Myers | United States | 2:07.96 |
| Moscow | George Du Rand | South Africa | 1:47.08 WR | Daryna Zevina | Ukraine | 2:04.59 |
| Stockholm | Markus Rogan | Austria | 1:47.64 NR | Elizabeth Simmonds | Great Britain | 2:02.01 (WC) |
| Berlin | Arkady Vyatchanin | Russia | 1:46.11 WR | Shiho Sakai | Japan | 2:00.18 WR |
| Singapore | Arkady Vyatchanin | Russia | 1:46.41 | Elizabeth Simmonds | Great Britain | 2:01.48 |

#### 50 m breaststroke

| Meet | Men | Men | Men | Women | Women | Women |
| Meet | Winner | Nationality | Time | Winner | Nationality | Time |
| Durban | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 25.90 (WC) | Jessica Hardy | United States | 29.45 (WR) |
| Moscow | Cameron van der Burgh | South Africa | 25.58 (WC) | Jessica Hardy | United States | 29.36 (WR) |
| Stockholm | Cameron van der Burgh | South Africa | 25.68 | Jessica Hardy | United States | 29.29* |
| Berlin | Cameron van der Burgh | South Africa | 25.25 WR | Jessica Hardy | United States | 28.80 WR |
| Singapore | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 25.58 | Jessica Hardy | United States | 29.09 |
* Jessica Hardy set a new world record of 28.96 seconds in the heats of this event in Stockholm.

#### 100 m breaststroke

| Meet | Men | Men | Men | Women | Women | Women |
| Meet | Winner | Nationality | Time | Winner | Nationality | Time |
| Durban | Cameron van der Burgh | South Africa | 56.60 (WC) | Jessica Hardy | United States | 1:04.15 (WC) |
| Moscow | Cameron van der Burgh | South Africa | 56.36 (WC) | Jessica Hardy | United States | 1:03.75 (WC) |
| Stockholm | Cameron van der Burgh | South Africa | 56.17 (WC) | Leisel Jones | Australia | 1:03.74 (WC) |
| Berlin | Cameron van der Burgh | South Africa | 55.61 WR | Leisel Jones | Australia | 1:03.00 WR |
| Singapore | Cameron van der Burgh | South Africa | 56.25 | Sarah Katsoulis | Australia | 1:03.73 |

#### 200 m breaststroke

| Meet | Men | Men | Men | Women | Women | Women |
| Meet | Winner | Nationality | Time | Winner | Nationality | Time |
| Durban | Neil Versfeld | South Africa | 2:03.35 | Nađa Higl | Serbia | 2:20.41 |
| Moscow | Neil Versfeld | South Africa | 2:04.15 | Rikke Møller-Pedersen | Denmark | 2:19.58 |
| Stockholm | Neil Versfeld | South Africa | 2:02.67 (WC) | Nađa Higl | Serbia | 2:18.54 |
| Berlin | Melquiades Alvarez | Spain | 2:02.67* | Leisel Jones | Australia | 2:15.42 WR |
| Singapore | Christian Sprenger | Australia | 2:02.65 | Kathryn Meaklim | South Africa | 2:20.52 |
* Neil Versfeld set a new World Cup record of 2:02.56 seconds in the heats of this event in Berlin.

#### 50 m butterfly

| Meet | Men | Men | Men | Women | Women | Women |
| Meet | Winner | Nationality | Time | Winner | Nationality | Time |
| Durban | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 22.32 (WC) | Therese Alshammar | Sweden | 24.75 (WR) |
| Moscow | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 22.33 | Therese Alshammar | Sweden | 25.10 |
| Stockholm | Roland Schoeman | South Africa | 22.08 (WC) | Therese Alshammar | Sweden | 24.46 (WR) |
| Berlin | Steffen Deibler | Germany | 21.80 WR | Marieke Guehrer | Australia | 24.69 |
| Singapore | Nicholas Santos | Brazil | 22.16 | Therese Alshammar | Sweden | 24.38 WR |

#### 100 m butterfly

| Meet | Men | Men | Men | Women | Women | Women |
| Meet | Winner | Nationality | Time | Winner | Nationality | Time |
| Durban | Yevgeny Korotyshkin | Russia | 50.23 | Therese Alshammar | Sweden | 56.12 (WC) |
| Moscow | Yevgeny Korotyshkin | Russia | 48.99 (WR) | Felicity Galvez | Australia | 55.82 (WC) |
| Stockholm | Kaio de Almeida | Brazil | 49.44 | Felicity Galvez | Australia | 55.46 WR |
| Berlin | Yevgeny Korotyshkin | Russia | 48.48 WR | Felicity Galvez | Australia | 55.62 |
| Singapore | Mitchell Patterson | Australia | 49.51 | Felicity Galvez | Australia | 56.07 |

#### 200 m butterfly

| Meet | Men | Men | Men | Women | Women | Women |
| Meet | Winner | Nationality | Time | Winner | Nationality | Time |
| Durban | Chad le Clos | South Africa | 1:54.45 | Felicity Galvez | Australia | 2:05.55 |
| Moscow | Nikolay Skvortsov | Russia | 1:51.30 | Joanna Maranhão | Brazil | 2:04.01 (WC) |
| Stockholm | Kaio de Almeida | Brazil | 1:49.11 WR | Liu Zige | China | 2:02.50 (WR) |
| Berlin | Nikolay Skvortsov | Russia | 1:50.58 | Liu Zige | China | 2:00.78 WR |
| Singapore | Kazuya Kaneda | Japan | 1:51.54 | Jessicah Schipper | Australia | 2:03.27 |

#### 100 m individual medley

| Meet | Men | Men | Men | Women | Women | Women |
| Meet | Winner | Nationality | Time | Winner | Nationality | Time |
| Durban | Sergey Fesikov | Russia | 51.96 | Jessica Hardy | United States | 59.93* |
| Moscow | Sergey Fesikov | Russia | 51.45 (WC) | Hinkelien Schreuder | Netherlands | 58.88 |
| Stockholm | Gerhard Zandberg | South Africa | 51.77 | Zhao Jing | China | 58.40 (WR) |
| Berlin | Sergey Fesikov | Russia | 50.96** | Hinkelien Schreuder | Netherlands | 57.74 WR |
| Singapore | Darian Townsend | South Africa | 52.11 | Hinkelien Schreuder | Netherlands | 58.32 |
* Therese Alshammar set a new world record of 58.51 seconds in the heats of this event in Durban.
** Sergey Fesikov set a new world record of 50.95 seconds in the heats of this event in Berlin.

#### 200 m individual medley

| Meet | Men | Men | Men | Women | Women | Women |
| Meet | Winner | Nationality | Time | Winner | Nationality | Time |
| Durban | Darian Townsend | South Africa | 1:53.13 | Whitney Myers | United States | 2:09.10 |
| Moscow | Darian Townsend | South Africa | 1:52.93 | Evelyn Verrasztó | Hungary | 2:06.01 WR |
| Stockholm | Darian Townsend | South Africa | 1:51.79 (WC) | Mireia Belmonte García | Spain | 2:06.44 |
| Berlin | Darian Townsend | South Africa | 1:51.55 WR | Li Jiaxing | China | 2:07.34 |
| Singapore | Darian Townsend | South Africa | 1:52.49 | Whitney Myers | United States | 2:06.20 |

#### 400 m individual medley

| Meet | Men | Men | Men | Women | Women | Women |
| Meet | Winner | Nationality | Time | Winner | Nationality | Time |
| Durban | Chad le Clos | South Africa | 4.05.04 | Kathryn Meaklim | South Africa | 4:30.53 |
| Moscow | Dávid Verrasztó | Hungary | 4:03.45 | Joanna Maranhão | Brazil | 4:26.98 (WC) |
| Stockholm | Joseph Roebuck | Great Britain | 4:03.29 | Mireia Belmonte García | Spain | 4:26.40 (WC) |
| Berlin | Chad le Clos | South Africa | 4:02.18 | Tanya Hunks | Canada | 4:30.52 |
| Singapore | Oussama Mellouli | Tunisia | 4:05.79 | Kathryn Meaklim | South Africa | 4:22.88 WR |
Legend: WR – World record; (WR) – World record when swum (earning bonus World Cup points); WC – World Cup record; (WC) – World Cup record when swum