Indianapolis, IN
FINA World Cup Indianapolis Stop Releases More USA Olympians to Lineup; Katie Ledecky Expected
The FINA World Cup may have its third and last leg of competitors this 12 months happen in Indianapolis, Indiana November 3-5. The competitors will function quite a few worldwide stars in addition to a robust contingent of American standouts.
FINA not too long ago introduced a lineup of athletes who will compete in any respect three stops (Berlin, Germany from October 21-23; Toronto, Canada from October 28-30; Indianapolis from November 3-5) of the competitors. Seven American athletes will compete in any respect three stops of the FINA World Cup: 2020 Olympians Erika Brown, Nic Fink, Hali Flickinger, Kieran Smith and Tom Shields, in addition to Nationwide Workforce members Shaine Casas and Beata Nelson.
Whereas these athletes will characterize the U.S. in any respect FINA stops, loads of Individuals have their eyes set on the Indianapolis occasion. In whole, there are 20 U.S. Olympians and 32 present U.S. Nationwide Workforce members entered* into the meet. Along with the aforementioned athletes, the U.S. Olympian group consists of Michael Andrew, Hunter Armstrong, Patrick Callan, Bobby Finke, Katie Grimes, Zach Harting, Natalie Hinds, Drew Kibler, Lilly King, Annie Lazor, Katie Ledecky, Ryan Murphy, Bella Sims, Leah Smith and Abbey Weitzeil.
*Entries are topic to alter
Along with the marquee worldwide names, USA Swimming not too long ago introduced the names of 12 junior athletes who will compete in Indianapolis for the FINA World Cup cease — together with headliners Thomas Heilman, Leah Hayes, Daniel Diehl and Erin Gemmell.
Tickets for the occasion might be discovered at tickets.usaswimming.org. For extra on the occasion, head to https://www.fina.org/
The FINA competitors collection will welcome greater than 1,000 of the world’s greatest swimmers throughout the tour from greater than 60 international locations, who will compete for $224,000 prize cash ($112,000 per gender) awarded at every metropolis to the highest 20 female and male athletes. A collection whole of $262,000 will even be awarded to the highest eight women and men athletes, primarily based on their general rating. Along with world file bonus prize cash of $10,000, athletes who win the identical occasion in all three cities of the collection will win a “Crown” and obtain extra prize cash of $10,000 for every Crown.