Medals & Prize Money at Barcelona World Championships
Last week, FINA presented the medals for the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona. At a meeting in Barcelona at the historic swim club CN Natacio-Barceloneta, three of Spain’s most famous athletes presented the Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals to the members of the crowd. Xavier Trias, the mayer of Barcelona, was at the presentation and expressed how excited he was that his city is hosting the championships.
“Everything we have seen today forms part of the image of Barcelona. The Championships will be in the limelight and we have to make the most of it. Hosting the major sporting event is important for the city and its citizens.”
The medals were designed by a company called lagranja. Ona Carbonell, Jennifer Pareja and Marc Minguell, three of Spains top athletes, jumped out of the water wearing the medals.
Medals aren’t all that’s at stake, however. There is a prize pool of over $3.1 million to top finishers in all of the FINA disciplines.
FINA will give out $3,100,500 dollars across 6 disciplines, including a whopping $1.56 million in pool swimming alone.
Prize money for the whole meet will be broken down as follows:
| Overall Prize Money | |||
| Discipline | No. of events | Prize Money per event | Total Prize Money |
| Swimming | 40 | $39’000 | $1’560’000 |
| Water Polo | 2 | $165’000 | $330’000 |
| Diving | 10 | $39’000 | $390’000 |
| Synchronised Swimming | 4 | $39’000 | $156’000 |
| 3 | $105’000 | $315’000 | |
| Open Water | 6 | $39’000 | $234’000 |
| High Diving | 1 | $63’000 | $63’000 |
| 1 | $52’500 | $52’500 | |
| Total | $3’100’500 | ||
| + World Record (for each – Swimming only) | $25’000 |
With money per placing going out:
| Swimming | OW Swimming | Diving | High Diving (Women) | High Diving (Men) | Synchronised Swimming (Solo and Duet) | Synchronised Swimming (Team and Free Combination) | Water Polo | |
| 1st Place | $15’000 | $15’000 | $15’000 | $10’000 | $10’000 | $15’000 | $30’000 | $60’000 |
| 2nd Place | $10’000 | $10’000 | $10’000 | $9’000 | $9’000 | $10’000 | $25’000 | $40’000 |
| 3rd Place | $5’000 | $5’000 | $5’000 | $8’000 | $8’000 | $5’000 | $20’000 | $30’000 |
| 4th Place | $4’000 | $4’000 | $4’000 | $7’000 | $7’000 | $4’000 | $15’000 | $20’000 |
| 5th Place | $3’000 | $3’000 | $3’000 | $6’000 | $6’000 | $3’000 | $10’000 | $10’000 |
| 6th Place | $2’000 | $2’000 | $2’000 | $5’000 | $5’000 | $2’000 | $5’000 | $5’000 |
| 7th Place | $4’000 | $4’000 | ||||||
| 8th Place | $3’500 | $3’500 | ||||||
| 9th Place | $3’000 | |||||||
| 10th Place | $2’500 | |||||||
| 11th Place | $2’000 | |||||||
| 12th Place | $1’500 | |||||||
| 13th Place | $1’000 | |||||||
| 14th Place | $500 | |||||||
| Total | $39’000 (Per Event) | $39’000 | $39’000 | $52’500 | $63’000 | $39’000 | $105’000 | $165’000 |
The 15th FINA World Championships begin July 20
