USA wins Swimming World Championships in June

A huge gap opened up between the USA  and its nearest Global Cup competitor at the end of June, after Team USA dominated the Swimming World Championships (please see below for the Global Cup’s complete June monthly table).

At the Aquatics World Championships in Budapest, the USA scored nearly three times as many points in Pool Swimming as runner-up Australia, which finished only 6 points ahead of third-placed Italy. The latter completed a very good Budapest campaign by topping the rankings in Open Water Swimming (ahead of Germany and France) and Synchronised Swimming (ahead of Japan and Ukraine), and finishing second behind Spain in Water Polo*.

But the bulk of the points were awarded in Pool Swimming, which alone accounted for 75% of the total GSN points awarded in June. The USA bagged 1,328 points in the Budapest pool, winning both the women’s and men’s rankings (Australia won the mixed relays), and has now stretched its lead in the year-to-date Global Cup table to more than double the points share (13.4% vs 6.3%) of the country currently in second place, Canada, which also did very well in Budapest, finishing fourth in Pool Swimming.

Italy and Australia, thanks to the points won at the Aquatics World Championships, were the most improved countries in the global Cup y-t-d top 10 after June, climbing respectively five places into fourth overall, and as many as nine places into sixth.

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GLOBAL CUP 2022 – JUNE MONTHLY RANKING

Place	Country	Points	Points %
1	United States	1,553	19.9%
2	Australia	638	8.2%
3	Italy	606	7.8%
4	France	533	6.8%
5	Canada	467	6.0%
6	Great Britain	421	5.4%
7	China	398	5.1%
8	Germany	329	4.2%
9	Japan	258	3.3%
10	Brazil	258	3.3%
11	Sweden	254	3.3%
12	Hungary	252	3.2%
13	Netherlands	196	2.5%
14	Lithuania	180	2.3%
15	Poland	145	1.9%
16	Spain	135	1.7%
17	Norway	112	1.4%
18	Ukraine	108	1.4%
19	Serbia	106	1.4%
20	South Korea	105	1.3%
21	Switzerland	102	1.3%
22	Austria	77	1.0%
23	Romania	72	0.9%
24	Belgium	66	0.8%
25	New Zealand	60	0.8%
26	Greece	55	0.7%
27	Russia	53	0.7%
28	Croatia	28	0.4%
29	Latvia	27	0.3%
30	Denmark	27	0.3%
31	South Africa	21	0.3%
32	Egypt	21	0.3%
33	Israel	18	0.2%
34	Trinidad and Tobago	15	0.2%
35	Estonia	14	0.2%
36	Mexico	14	0.2%
37	Bosnia and Herzegovina	12	0.2%
38	Thailand	10	0.1%
39	Iceland	9	0.1%
40	Kazakhstan	7	0.1%
41	Finland	7	0.1%
42	Colombia	6	0.1%
43	Portugal	4	0.1%
44	Czech Republic	4	0.1%
45	Ireland	4	0.0%
46	Singapore	3	0.0%
47	Chile	3	0.0%
	Grand Total	7,788	100.0%

 

 

Greatest Sporting Nation is a ranking of countries based on their performance in top-level international tournaments in sports in which there is genuine global competition. Countries (national teams and/or individual athletes) score Qualifying Points by finishing in the top eight places in Qualifying Events.

These Qualifying Points are then weighted to produce GSN Points, based on a formula that takes into account individual vs team sports, the sport’s participation (number of countries) and the frequency (annual/biennial/quadrennial) of the tournaments.

The Country scoring the most Points in a calendar year wins the Global Cup for that year. The country that scores the most points relative to its population wins the Per Capita Cup. For a more detailed explanation, please refer to the ‘How It Works’ section on the site.

 

*the Water Polo result is not yet included in the GSN tables, as the tournament final took place on 3 July, when our June tracking was already completed.