Kós And Douglass Dominate 2025 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup

TORONTO, CANADA – OCTOBER 25: Kate Douglass of the United States and Hubert Kos of Hungary pose for a photograph with the Swimming World Cup Trophy after being named champions throughout day three of the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup – Toronto 2025 at Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre on October 25, 2025 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Photo by Chris Tanouye/Getty Images)

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Hubert Kós and Kate Douglass captured the general titles on the 2025 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup, every incomes greater than $180,000 throughout the three-stop sequence. The competitors ran from October 10 to October 25 with stops in Carmel, Indiana, Westmont, Illinois and Toronto, Canada. All races have been held briefly course meters, and the meet electrified the swimming neighborhood as a number of world data fell.

In whole, throughout all three stops, 13 world data have been damaged, up from eight in 2024. In addition to total champions Kós and Douglass, a number of swimmers set new world data. Gretchen Walsh shattered the ladies’s 50 butterfly file with a time of 23.72, reducing her earlier file of 23.94. Mollie O’Callaghan broke the ladies’s 200 freestyle file twice, first to 1:49.77 after which to 1:49.36.

Regan Smith tied her personal world file within the ladies’s 100 backstroke at 54.02 whereas Kaylee McKeown reset the ladies’s 200 backstroke file twice, clocking 1:57.87 and later 1:57.33. Lani Pallister additionally made historical past within the ladies’s 800 freestyle with a time of seven:54.00, surpassing the earlier file of seven:57.42 held by Katie Ledecky, essentially the most adorned American girl in Olympic historical past.

On the lads’s facet, Josh Liendo broke the 100 butterfly file with a time of 47.68 and Caspar Corbeau set a brand new mark within the 200 breaststroke at 1:59.52.

Top Male Earner

Kós is a Hungarian swimmer and a member of the University of Texas swim staff. He most lately helped the staff win the 2025 Men’s NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships and was the Olympic champion within the 200 backstroke on the 2024 Paris Games.

At the World Cup, Kós scored 175.8 points to win the general males’s title and earned a complete of $184,000. His earnings included $12,000 from cease one, $10,000 from cease two and $12,000 from cease three, plus $30,000 in Triple Crown bonuses, $20,000 for world data and $100,000 for topping the general standings.

Kós swept the backstroke occasions, claiming Triple Crowns within the 50, 100 and 200 again. He broke two world data in Toronto, setting new marks within the males’s 200 backstroke (1:45.12) and 100 backstroke (48.16).

Top Female Earner

During her NCAA profession on the University of Virginia from 2019 to 2023, Douglass helped lead the Cavaliers to a few NCAA Division I Championships (2021, 2022 and 2023).

Douglass, an American swimmer and five-time Olympic medalist with two golds, gained her 2024 Olympic titles within the 200 breaststroke and 4×100 medley relay. She additionally earned silver medals within the 200 particular person medley and 4×100 freestyle relay in Paris. Additionally, she captured bronze within the 200 IM in Tokyo.

Douglass efficiently defended her title on the World Cup after topping the earnings checklist in 2024, totaling 177.5 factors to safe the general ladies’s crown and incomes $182,000. Her breakdown included $10,000 from the primary cease, $12,000 from the second, $10,000 from the third, $30,000 in Triple Crown bonuses, $20,000 for world data and $100,000 for total standings.

Douglass swept the 100 freestyle, 100 breaststroke and 200 breaststroke occasions to earn three Triple Crowns. In Toronto, she made historical past within the ladies’s 100 freestyle with a 49.93 swim, becoming the first woman ever under 50 seconds and reducing her personal world file set earlier in Westmont.