International Swimming League
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| Current season | 2019 International Swimming League |
| sport | Sport swimming |
| League foundation | 2019 |
| Country countries | worldwide |
| Website | https://isl.global/ |
The International Swimming League (ISL) is an annual professional swimming league founded in 2019. It offers a team-based competition format with rapid swimming competition. In 2019, the regular season started in October and the final swim took place in December.
Athletes who have previously been disqualified for violating anti-doping rules are excluded from the ISL.
structure
ISL season
The season is divided into a regular championship and a final. In the regular championship clubs, swimmers receive points for participating in swimming according to the following principles: 4 points for 1st place in swimming, 3 for 2nd, 2 for 3rd and 1 for 4th place. After all championship swimming, the 4 clubs with the highest number of points reach the final, in which the winners of the league (the ISL champions) are determined. Each club can have a maximum of 32 athletes. For each swim 28 of them are allowed to take part in competitions - 12 men and 12 women can swim individual competitions, while 2 men and 2 women can be used as “relay only” athletes.
ISL swimming competition
Four clubs take part in a swim, an ISL swimming competition lasts two days. During the first season, an ISL swimming competition consisted of 37 (39 in the 2020 season) swimming: 30 (32) individual, 5 team relays and 2 elimination swims. Two club representatives each take part in the swimming competition. The points are distributed as follows after the swim: 9 points for 1st, 7 for 2nd… 1 for 8th place. Athletes (teams) who do not finish a race will not receive any points. In addition, the points are doubled in relays and awarded after each of the 3 relay swims.
The points of the club representatives are then added up and give the overall result for the respective clubs.
A win in a swimming competition does not guarantee maximum club points. For example, club representatives who finish 1st and 7th in a swim receive fewer points for their respective clubs than those who finish 2nd and 4th: they get 11 and 12 total points, respectively.
The club that has scored the most points in all 37 races wins a swimming competition. Similarly, the rest of the clubs are split into 2nd to 4th place depending on what points they score throughout the competition. In theory, a swimming competition could be won by a team that has not won a single swim.
In the event that two or more clubs receive the same number of points after swimming, an additional mixed medley relay of 4 x 50 m takes place, the outcome of which reflects the final results of the swimming competition.
Teams
The 2019 season debuted with the clubs at the time, five from the United States and five from Europe. In 2020 clubs from Canada and Japan were added to the ISL, bringing the total number of clubs to 10.
| society | city | accession | General manager | Head coach |
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| America's Confederation | ||||
| DC Trident | Washington, DC | 2019 | Kaitlin Sandeno | Cyndi Gallagher |
| LA Current | los Angeles | 2019 | Lenny Krayzelburg | David Marsh |
| New York Breakers | New York City | 2019 | Tina Andrew | Peter Andrew |
| Cali Condors | San Francisco | 2019 | Jason Lezak | Gregg Troy |
| Toronto Titans | Toronto | 2020 | Robert Kent | |
| European Asian Confederation | ||||
| Energy Standard | Paris | 2019 | Jean-Francois Salessy | James Gibson |
| London Roar | London | 2019 | Rob Woodhouse | Mel Marshall |
| Team Iron | Budapest | 2019 | Dorina Szekeres | |
| Aqua Centurions | Rome | 2019 | Alessandra Guerra | Matteo Giunta |
| ISL Tokyo | Tokyo | 2020 | Kosuke Kitajima | |
Technical rule
Four clubs take part in all swimming competitions and they take place on two days with two two-hour sessions with two short breaks each. Each club consists of a minimum of 24 and a maximum of 28 athletes. 12 men and 12 women are allowed to swim in individual events, while a further 2 male and 2 female athletes can be included in the team list as they are only relay swimmers. In each event, all participating clubs must field two athletes (and two teams in the relay).
A standard ISL swimming competition takes place on two days. Each day consists of three 30-35 minute competitions divided by two 10 minute breaks. Every day, each club is randomly assigned two adjacent lanes, on which the swimmers are to swim on the lanes until the end of each competition day. If on day 1 a club was assigned outside lanes (7 and 8 or 1 and 2), the club is guaranteed the central lanes (3 and 4 or 5 and 6) the next day and vice versa.
The team line-ups are submitted before each competition meeting. These lineups can be changed and adapted during the planned breaks within the competition. This must be done 2 minutes after the last event in the previous session ended.
A swimming competition consists of 37 races (two more swims will be added in 2020 - 100 individual layers for men and women), including 30 (32) individual races, 5 relays and 2 elimination swims, which are only open to the 12 participating swimmers in individual events . If two or more clubs achieve the same number of points at the end of the swimming competition, an additional 4 × 50 relay with mixed medley swimming takes place between the representatives of these clubs. All athletes are allowed to participate in this relay. The winner of this season must be higher in the final ranking than the other club that swam in the season.
The teams receive the following points at the end of each swim.
| space | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4th |
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| Points | 4th | 3 | 2 | 1 |
In 2019, the two American and European teams with the highest number of points after the regular championship qualified for the final. If two or more clubs are tied after the regular championship, additional criteria will be used to determine the winner.
The number of points for each individual event is as follows (relay races score twice as many points):
| space | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4th | 5. | 6th | 7th | 8th. | DNF | DSQ | DNS |
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| Points | 9 | 7th | 6th | 5 | 4th | 3 | 2 | 1 | −2 | -4 | |
Relay race
If a relay or swimmer is slower than the times given in the table below, the relay or swimmer will receive a penalty of points. A relay that is slower than the time standard will get 2 points deducted, while an athlete who is slower than the specified time will receive a 1 point penalty instead.
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Punish
If a relay or swimmer is slower than the times given in the table below, the relay or swimmer will receive a penalty of points. A relay that is slower than the time standard will get 2 points deducted, while an athlete who is slower than the specified time will receive a 1 point penalty instead.
The table compares all minimum time standards (SCM) for the results to the world records.
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If an athlete (or a relay team) is disqualified or does not finish swimming, no points will be awarded for their club, while two points (four for relay teams) will be deducted from the club's overall performance. If an athlete (or a relay team) has not shown up for a swim, no points will be awarded for their club, while four points (eight for relay teams) will be deducted from the club's overall performance.
| space | DNS | DNF | DSQ |
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| Points | -4 | −2 | |
Best swimmer
The best swimmer is selected after each swimming competition and at the end of the season. The criteria for such a selection are the number of points for the team classification that the swimmer has accumulated during the competition or season. Only the best swimmer can be chosen each time and can be both a woman and a man. The Best Swimmer Prize at the end of each swim will be awarded a bonus of $ 5,000.
Elimination swimming
An elimination swim is a series of consecutive 50-meter freestyle swims conducted on a knockout basis: in the first round four swimmers are eliminated (out of 8), in the second round two swimmers leave the elimination swim and in the 3rd round. and last round, consisting of only two swimmers competing in a head-to-head final, the winner will be determined. The competitions of the elimination races take place every 3 minutes. The athletes can warm up in the pool or have a short massage from their team's physiotherapist between the laps between the blocks. The athletes who are eliminated from the swimming competition must return to their team's area.
The swimming lanes that the qualified athletes will use in the following round are to be determined according to their team's lane allocation for the day. The ISL elimination swimmers receive the following points:
| placement | DNS | DNF | DSQ | 8th. | 7th | 6th | 5. | 4th | 3. | 2. | 1. | |
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| Round 1 | Points | -4 | −2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | |||||
| round 2 | Points | -8th | −4 | 10 | 12 | |||||||
| Round 3 | Points | -12 | −6 | 21st | 27 | |||||||
budget
The season budget for 2019 was US $ 20 million, of which over US $ 6 million was for performances and prize money for the athletes.
Results after the season
The season finale 2019 took place in the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas.
| season | Rds | master | Second | Third | Fourth |
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| 2019 | 7th | Energy Standard | London Roar | Cali Condors | LA Current |
Sarah Sjöström was the best swimmer of the 2019 season.
history
FINA-ISL dispute
At the start of the 2018 season, the only major annual swimming tournament approved by FINA was the FINA World Swimming Championship . To ensure better visibility of swimming through a new team-based format, a new organization called the International Swimming League , based on the idea of Ukrainian billionaire Konstantin Grigorishin , was presented in Anaheim in September 2018 : the opening event of the new league would be the annual one Energy for Swim meeting (which first took place in 2017 and was scheduled for December 20-21 of that season in Turin , Italy). In June, FINA sent a letter to all 209 associations asking them not to cooperate with ISL.
After clarifying the interpretation of a rule in Section 4.5 of the general rules of FINA, FINA stated that the “Energy for Swimming” meeting has now been classified as an international event for this season, as “a competition that is conceptually planned to be a The majority of foreign participants say that there is no national competition ”. "Therefore it would have to be applied for within the normal half-yearly application period."
Since the six-month application period had already expired, the athletes participating in this meeting would have been disqualified by FINA for one to two years, and world records set during the event would not have been recognized.
The negotiations between the parties were officially broken off on November 15, 2018, which ultimately led to the cancellation of the Energy for Swim meeting.
debut
Despite the failure of negotiations between FINA, ISL and the Energy for Standard Group - which together with FINA had organized an Energy for Standard meeting - several athletes supported the new idea of a team-based swimming competition (including Katinka Hosszu and Adam Peaty ). FINA announced the creation of a brand new league called the FINA Champions Swim Series in December 2018. The first ISL team to be officially announced was the German team ONEFlow Aquatics (which ultimately did not participate in the opening season) in January 2019, after which ISL subsequently also announced the remaining three European teams and the four American teams.
In the meantime, the ISL also presented a newly formed representation company - ISL USA - which had played the semifinals and the final match in Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas and supported the new US clubs in their operations (including scouting talent, signing athletes and leading their athletes). A crucial step in the creation of ISL was made when FINA announced that athletes participating in non-FINA approved events would not be banned and that similar competitions would be allowed. This also confirms that any world records set in the first two competitive swimming were not taken into account because they coincided with World Cup events. In June 2019, ISL released the schedule for the league's second season, which officially began the first week of the following October.
Individual evidence
- ↑ competition format . In: ISL . Retrieved October 10, 2019.
- ↑ ISL 2019 technical information - International Swimming League ( en-US ) Accessed April 10, 2020.
- ↑ ISL 2019 technical information - International Swimming League ( en-US ) Accessed April 8, 2020.
- ↑ Summary of ISL League, Toronto and Tokyo for 2020 added
- ↑ a b c d ISL 2019 technical information . In: ISL . Retrieved October 10, 2019.
- ↑ Grigorishin said between $ 6 million . In: www.insidethegames.biz . March 7, 2019. Accessed February 6, 2020.
- ↑ Sensational: The new competition for a lot of money, gets swimming going , The Guardian (June 18, 2019)
- ↑ International swimming league is presented in the ASCA World Clinic 2018 . In: Swim, Swam , September 8, 2018. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
- ↑ Memorandum to all FINA members (pdf) In: Inside the games . June 5, 2018. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
- ↑ FINA general rules (pdf) FINA. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
- ↑ The interpretation of the FINA rules could prohibit the swimming meeting “Energy for swimming” . In: Swim, Swam , November 2, 2018. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
- ↑ Rival swimming competition canceled after FINA threatened to take action against swimmers . In: In der Spiele, November 16, 2018. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
- ↑ PR 107 - FINA approves new world-class swimming event . In: FINA , December 13, 2018. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
- ↑ ONEFlow Aquatic announced as the first team in ISL . In: Swim, Swam , January 10, 2019. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
- ↑ ISL USA is now officially in operation . In: ISL , January 24, 2019. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
- ↑ FINA offers a clarification on the participation of athletes in international competitions . In: Swimming World Magazine , January 15, 2019. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
- ↑ FINA would approve league world records to avoid escalating the swimmer revolution . In: Swimming World Magazine , October 8, 2019. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
- ↑ INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING LEAGUE ANNOUNCES CITIES AND LOCATIONS . In: ISL , June 21, 2019. Retrieved October 10, 2019.