World Cup Title Tight Between Gretchen Walsh and Kate Douglass

World Cup Standings: Women’s Race Coming Down to Battle Between Gretchen Walsh and Kate Douglass

Who will emerge on high of the factors standings when the World Cup wraps up its three-meet tour of North America later this week? While the ladies’s battle for high honors is a decent affair between Americans Gretchen Walsh and Kate Douglass, the boys’s standings are convincingly led by Hubert Kos, the reigning Olympic champion within the 200-meter backstroke.

Going into the Toronto cease of the circuit, which will probably be held from Thursday to Saturday, Walsh has the slightest edge on Douglass, 118.1 factors to 118. Both girls have been very good on the first two legs in Carmel (Ind.) and Westmont (Ill.), with Walsh sweeping the 100 particular person medley, 50 butterfly and 100 butterfly. Douglass has been excellent within the 100 freestyle, 100 breaststroke and 200 breaststroke. Each athlete has set a world file, Walsh’s arriving within the 50 fly in Carmel and Douglass’ coming in Westmont within the 100 freestyle.

Regan Smith, with 114.4 factors, sits in third place within the standings. During the World Cup, Smith has tied her world file within the 100 backstroke and set a pair of American data within the 200 butterfly. She additionally established an American file within the 200 backstroke on Sunday night time, along with her time higher than the earlier world file throughout a sensational duel with Aussie Kaylee McKeown.

In males’s motion, Kos has a snug lead within the factors standings over Canadian Ilya Kharun. Through the primary two meets, Kos has not dropped a backstroke race, going 2-for-2 within the 50 backstroke, 100 backstroke and 200 backstroke. That excellence has enabled Kos to build up 116.4 factors, which places him forward of Kharun and his 113.1 factors. Shaine Casas follows in third place with 112.3 factors.

Women’s Rankings

Men’s Rankings