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Photo Credit: Joao Marc Bosch<\/em><\/p>\n

QATAR, Doha, August 25. A number of top international swimmers are scheduled to compete in the first stop of the 2014 FINA\/Mastbank Swimming World Cup, which gets underway Aug. 27 in Doha, Qatar. The 2014 circuit covers seven cities – Doha, Dubai, Hong Kong, Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo and Singapore – in a two-month stretch from late August to early November.<\/p>\n

Many of the top overall finishers from the 2013 World Cup circuit will be back in action this week, including two of the top three finishers on the men’s side and all three of the top finishers on the women’s side.<\/p>\n

Three-time Olympian Katinka Hosszu of Hungary, the reigning World Cup series champion, returns to defend her title, which she won in a landslide last year with 840 points, more than 500 points ahead of runner-up Alia Atkinson of Jamaica. Hosszu regularly enters and swims at least half a dozen events at each meet she goes to, which pays off big time in the World Cup meets with a ton of individual points. Hosszu picked up five medals at the recent European Championships in Berlin, winning gold in the 200 IM (2:08.11), 400 IM (4:31.03) and 100 back (59.63), silver in the 200 free (1:56.69) and bronze in the 200 fly (2:07.28).<\/p>\n

Spain’s Mireia Belmonte finished third overall in the 2013 standings with 280 points, and also brought home a handful of medals from the European Championships last week. She collected gold medals in the 1500 free (15:57.29) and 200 fly (2:04.79), silver medals in the 800 free (8:21.22) and 400 IM (4:33.13) and a bronze medal in the 400 free (4:04.01).<\/p>\n

Hosszu and Belmonte are two of the most versatile female swimmers in the world, and it should be another great battle for the top three spots in the women’s World Cup standings.<\/p>\n

On the men’s side, 2013 circuit champion Chad Le Clos of South Africa and third-place finisher Robert Hurley of Australia headline another star-studded World Cup field. Le Clos amassed 574 points in 2013 to top Russia’s Vladimir Morozov (414 points) and Hurley (285 points).<\/p>\n

Le Clos already owns a handful of highly-ranked times internationally this year; he’s 10th in the 50 fly (23.29), tied for second in the 100 fly (51.29), first in the 200 fly (1:54.56), tied for 10th in the 200 IM (1:57.94) and 15th in the 400 IM (4:14.81). In the race for the overall World Cup series title, versatility is the name of the game, and Le Clos has at least five events that he’s capable of winning at each and every meet.<\/p>\n

Other swimmers to watch for include Australia’s Ashley Delaney, Hungary’s Daniel Gyurta, Italy’s Fabio Scozzoli, The Netherlands’ Inge Dekker, Poland’s Konrad Czerniak and Pawel Korzeniowski, South Africa’s Roland Schoeman and Tunisia’s Ous Mellouli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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