U.S. Olympians Claire Weinstein and Katie Grimes, together with Sandpipers of Nevada teammates Luke Ellis (US Nationwide Group), Gabe Manteufel (Junior Nationwide Group), and others, will journey to swim a leg of the Swimming World Cup and Open Water Swimming World Cup this fall.
The group will first fly to Hong Kong to race in Cease 4 of the Open Water Swimming World Cup, the penultimate cease of the five-stop 2024 collection. Then they’ll take the 4 hour flight to Singapore for the ultimate cease of the three-stop 2024 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup Sequence.
Sandpipers’ Asian Tour
- October 26 – 27: World Aquatics Open Water Swimming World Cup, Hong Kong
- October 31 – November 2: World Aquatics Swimming World Cup, Singapore
There will likely be $30,000 up for grabs on the Open Water World Cup and $224,000 in prize cash awarded on the Swimming World Cup. Whereas athletes planning to race within the NCAA are technically nonetheless not allowed to gather prize cash, the Operation Gold loophole implies that if the cash flows via Olympic Committees, it may be saved past precise bills.
Most of those swimmers have participated within the Open Water World Cup earlier than, together with Weinstein’s massive win in Funchal, Portugal final December. They’ve all competed in pool World Cups as effectively – Weinstein and Grimes have participated within the collection within the final two seasons, whereas Ellis raced in 2022 and Manteufel raced in 2023.
Grimes received the 400 IM in each Berlin and Athens in final yr’s collection.