DOHA, February 25, 2018-The World Swimming Federation (FINA) announced that Doha will host the second round of the highly-coveted 2018 FINA Swimming World Cup.
A total of seven internationally renowned hosts in Europe, Middle East and Asia will be staging the 2018 World Cup in grand style. The swimming Series will get off the blocks in Kazan (RUS), on September 7-9.
The following weekend, from September 13-15, the swimmers will race in Doha (QAT), also a fantastic host of the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in December 2014.
Both meets will be held in a 50m-pool, with a total of 32 individual events and 2 relays.
The second Cluster however will be raced in 25m-pools, with the 17th FINA World Championships organiser Budapest (HUN) to welcome the circuit from October 4-6. A city to be confirmed yet will organise the first leg of the second Cluster prior to the Magyar capital, on September 28-30.
Finally the third and final Cluster (25m-pool) of the 2018 World Cup will take place in Asia: Beijing (CHN, from November 2-4), Tokyo (JPN, November 9-11) and Singapore (SGP, November 15-17).
Clusters #2 and #3 comprise of 34 individual events and 2 relays.
All meets will run across three days (including mandatory heats) and swimmers are allowed to swim an unlimited number of individual events, however only the best 3 results will count toward the ranking/scoring.