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2010 FINA Swimming World Cup

Swimming world cup

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ2072411 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2010 FINA Swimming World Cup was a series of seven short-course meters (25m) meets, held from September-early November 2010. The 2010 series was again titled sponsored by Arena.

Meets

The 2010 World Cup featured 7 meets (one more than 2009), which were divided into 3 segments: the first meet (Brazil, in September), an Asian leg (October), and a European leg (late October–November). Meet dates and locations are:

Results

Overall World Cup

At each meet of the World Cup circuit in 2010, 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 Stockholm.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where FINA, Swimming and World can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “2010 FINA Swimming World Cup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.