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Atkinson splashes into fifth place on FINA World Cup money list

by August 15th, 2017

Jamaica’s  swimming  star  Alia  Atkinson has  moved  up  to  5th  spot  on  the  women’s  money  list  after   pocketing  a  whopping  $10000 cluster  bonus  after  the  first  three  meetings  of  the  2017  FINA Swimming  World  Cup.

This  takes  Atkinson  to  an  overall  $19,400  way  behind  the  front-runner Sarah Sjostrom of  Sweden  who  secured  a  $50,000 cluster  bonus  to  climb  to  an  overall  $104,500………….her  total  also  include  two world  record  bonuses.

Atkinson  who  has  so  far  captured  five  gold  medals  earned  $2,900 at  the  opening  meet  in  Moscow, $3,500 in Berlin and  $3,000 in Eindhoven.

She  won  two  of  the  gold  medals  at  the  last  meet  in  Eindhoven  this  past weekend.

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