The 2020 International Swimming League was the second edition of the International Swimming League, a professional swimming league, established in 2019. It comprised ten teams composed of both women and men. The league, due to COVID-19 pandemic travel restrictions, consisted of thirteen short course swimming meets which took place in the city of Budapest, Hungary.
The US-based Cali Condors won the Grand Final, with Caeleb Dressel winning the season MVP award.
Schedule
The schedule consisted of ten regular-season meets, followed by two Semifinals and a Final Match in Budapest.
DatesLocationVenueTeamsResultsMVPRegular season 16–17 October BudapestDanube Arena Cali Condors Energy Standard LA Current New York Breakers Lilly King( Cali Condors)87.5 pts 18–19 October Aqua Centurions DC Trident London Roar Team Iron Ranomi Kromowidjojo( Team Iron)57 pts 24–25 October Aqua Centurion LA Current Toronto Titans Tokyo Frog Kings Béryl Gastaldello( LA Current)78 pts 26–27 October Cali Condors DC Trident Team Iron New York Breakers Caeleb Dressel( Cali Condors)75 pts 30–31 October DC Trident LA Current London Roar Tokyo Frog Kings Tom Shields( LA Current)62.5 pts 1–2 November Aqua Centurions Energy Standard New York Breakers Toronto Titans Siobhán Haughey( Energy Standard)61.5 pts 5–6 November (1) DC Trident Energy Standard Team Iron Toronto Titans Hüseyin Emre Sakçı( Team Iron)51 pts 5–6 November (2) Cali Condors London Roar New York Breakers Tokyo Frog Kings Caeleb Dressel( Cali Condors)87.5 pts 9–10 November (1) Energy Standard Team Iron Toronto Titans Tokyo Frog Kings Sarah Sjöström( Energy Standard)76 pts 9–10 November (2) Aqua Centurions Cali Condors LA Current London Roar Caeleb Dressel( Cali Condors)80.5 ptsSemifinals 14–15 November BudapestDanube Arena Energy Standard London Roar New York Breakers Tokyo Frog Kings Sarah Sjöström( Energy Standard)65 pts 15–16 November Cali Condors LA Current Team Iron Toronto Titans Caeleb Dressel( Cali Condors)91 ptsFinal Match 21–22 November BudapestDanube Arena Cali Condors Energy Standard LA Current London Roar Caeleb Dressel( Cali Condors)96 pts
Events schedule A total of 37 races were held in each match (the 4 × 50 m mixed medley relay acted as a tie breaker).
Day 1Day 2No.EventNo.Event1100m Butterfly● 20100m Freestyle●2● 21●350m Breaststroke● 22100m Breaststroke●4● 23●5400m Individual Medley● 24400m Freestyle●6● 25●74 × 100 m Freestyle Relay● 264 × 100 m Medley Relay●19● 27200m Individual Medley●8200m Backstroke● 28●9● 2950m Butterfly●1050m Freestyle● 30●11● 31100m Backstroke●124 × 100 m Medley Relay● 32●13200m Freestyle● 334x100 Freestyle Relay●14● 34200m Butterfly●1550m Backstroke● 35●16● 36Freestyle Skins●17200m Breaststroke● 37●18● 384 × 50 m Freestyle relayonly if needed●
Teams
ISL teams could have a maximum roster of 32 athletes for the 2019 season, with a suggested size of each club's traveling roster of 28 (14 men and 14 women). Each club had a captain and a vice-captain of different gender.
Cali CondorsMenWomen Khader Baqlah Haley Anderson Bowe Becker Erika Brown Gunnar Bentz Veronica Burchill Marcin Cieślak Kelsi Dahlia Kevin Cordes Sherridon Dressel Caeleb Dressel (C) Kelly Fertel Nic Fink Hali Flickinger Townley Haas Molly Hannis Tate Jackson Meg Harris Radosław Kawęcki Natalie Hinds Mitch Larkin Lilly King Clyde Lewis Melanie Margalis Kacper Majchrzak Lia Neal Tomas Peribonio Beata Nelson Justin Ress Allison Schmitt Coleman Stewart Meghan Small Mark Szaranek Olivia Smoliga (vice-captain) Eddie Wang Ariarne Titmus
DC TridentMenWomen Zach Apple Bailey Andison Meiron Cheruti Emma Barksdale Tommy Cope Amy Bilquist Abrahm DeVine Kathrin Delmer Ian Finnerty Bethany Galat Zane Grothe Ali Galyer Zach Harting Margo Geer Mohamed Hassan Leah Gingrich Robert Howard Madison Kennedy (C) Andrew Loy Lindsey Kozelsky Matheus Santana Linnea Mack Conner McHugh Rozaliya Nasretdinova Mark Nikolaev Kylee Perry Jacob Pebley Ting Wen Quah Giles Smith (vice-captain) Remedy Rule Velimir Stjepanović Miranda Tucker
New York BreakersMenWomen Brandonn Almeida Signe Bro Michael Andrew (vice-captain) Svetlana Chimrova Felix Auböck Emily Escobedo Lewis Clareburt Chloe Golding Marco Koch Abbey Harkin Joe Litchfield Boglárka Kapás Cameron McEvoy Ajna Késely Michał Poprawa Jeanette Ottesen (C) Chris Reid Molly Renshaw Matthew Richards Mikkayla Sheridan Jakub Skierka Arina Surkova Brendon Smith Alicja Tchórz Jan Świtkowski Daria S. Ustinova Ádám Telegdy Sarah Vasey Pieter Timmers Tevyn Waddell Jacob Whittle Kasia Wasick Damian Wierling Abbie Wood James Wilby
LA CurrentMenWomen Dylan Carter Ali DeLoof Marco Antonio Ferreira Jr. Helena Gasson Kristian Golomeev Béryl Gastaldello (vice-captain) Santiago Grassi Anastasia Gorbenko Jacob Heidtmann Alyssa Marsh Will Licon Katie McLaughlin Ryan Murphy (C) Andi Murez Josh Prenot Claire Rasmus Maxime Rooney Makayla Sargent Fernando Scheffer Julia Sebastián Andrew Seliskar Kierra Smith Tom Shields Kendyl Stewart Felipe França Silva Aly Tetzloff Zane Waddell Abbey Weitzeil Tomoe Zenimoto Hvas Madi Wilson Apostolos Christou
Toronto TitansMenWomen Michael Chadwick Anika Apostalon Mack Darragh Lisa Bratton Sergey Fesikov Tessa Cieplucha Andrii Govorov Michelle Coleman Brent Hayden (Vice-captain) Jhennifer Conceição Yuri Kisil Anna Egorova Finlay Knox Claire Fisch Aleksandr Krasnykh Candice Hall Anton McKee Louise Hansson Jay Lelliott Tayla Lovemore Daniil Pasynkov Kylie Masse (C) Erik Persson Julie Meynen Blake Pieroni Emily Overholt Cole Pratt Rebecca Smith Shane Ryan Jocelyn Ulyett Eli Wall Kelsey Wog
Energy StandardMenWomen Simonas Bilis Madeline Banic Matt Grevers Pernille Blume Kliment Kolesnikov Imogen Clark Chad le Clos (C) Georgia Davies Felipe Lima Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş Max Litchfield Mary-Sophie Harvey Florent Manaudou Siobhán Haughey Ben Proud Femke Heemskerk Danas Rapsys Lucy Hope Evgeny Rylov Zsuzsanna Jakabos Sergey Shevtsov Breeja Larson Ilya Shymanovich Benedetta Pilato Andrius Sidlauskas Emily Seebohm Maxim Stupin Anastasiya Shkurdai Andrei Zhilkin Sarah Sjöström (C) Kregor Zirk Tamara van Vliet
Team IronMenWomen Guilherme Basseto Veronika Andrusenko Thom de Boer Emilie Beckmann Robert Glință (vice-captain) Mireia Belmonte Ramon Klenz Jessica Hansen Maksim Lobanovskii Mélanie Henique Artyom Machekin Isabella Hindley Clément Mignon Katinka Hosszú (C) Kristóf Milák Ida Hulkko Ross Murdoch Ranomi Kromowidjojo Marco Orsi Jenna Laukkanen Oussama Sahnoune Danica Ludlow Leonardo Santos Caroline Pilhatsch Nicholas Santos Maria Ugolkova Hüseyin Emre Sakçı Daria Ustinova Yakov Toumarkin Valerie Van Roon Dávid Verrasztó Daryna Zevina Alina Zmushka
London RoarMenWomen Kyle Chalmers Freya Anderson Elliot Clogg Minna Atherton Tom Dean Bronte Campbell Christian Diener Cate Campbell Luke Greenbank Kathleen Dawson Darragh Greene Holly Hibbott Guilherme Guido Anna Hopkin James Guy Maria Kameneva Marius Kusch Emily Large Vini Lanza Annie Lazor Amaury Leveaux Emma McKeon Scott McLay Siobhan-Marie O'Connor Katsumi Nakamura Sydney Pickrem (C) Adam Peaty (C) Kira Toussaint Kirill Prigoda Marie Wattel Duncan Scott Harriet West Andreas Vazaios Aimee Willmott Mikhail Vekovishchev
Aqua CenturionsMenWomen Breno Correia Haley Black Marcelo Chierighini Tain Bruce Leonardo de Deus Katalin Burián Philip Heintz Martina Carraro Nicolò Martinenghi Arianna Castiglioni Luiz Altamir Melo Theodora Drakou Alessandro Miressi Valentine Dumont Apostolos Papastamos Kathryn Greenslade Matteo Rivolta Katrina Konopka Mykhailo Romanchuk Etiene Medeiros Fabio Santi Lidón Muñoz Gabriel Santos Larissa Oliveira Fabio Scozzoli (vice-captain) Federica Pellegrini (C) Pedro Spajari Stefania Pirozzi Szebasztián Szabó Alexandra Touretski Evelyn Verrasztó
Tokyo Frog KingsMenWomen Bruno Fratus Reona Aoki Kosuke Hagino Tomoki Aoki Tomoro Honda Catherine DeLoof Ryosuke Irie Suzuka Hasegawa Takeshi Kawamoto Chihiro Igarashi Yuki Kobori Runa Imai Yasuhiro Koseki Simona Kubová Kosuke Matsui Anna Ntountounaki Katsuhiro Matsumoto Yui Ohashi Naoki Mizunuma Natsumi Sakai Vladimir Morozov Aya Sato Cristian Quintero Sakiko Shimizu Shoma Sato Rio Shirai Shinru Shioura Leah Smith Brad Tandy Ai Soma Markus Thormeyer Miho Teramura
Standings
2020 ISL Final Match TeamTotal score 1 Cali Condors 561.52 Energy Standard 464.53 London Roar 391.04 LA Current 298.0
2020 Semifinals The teams in yellow qualified to the final match, two from each semifinal. SemifinalTeamTotal score1B Cali Condors 650.52A Energy Standard 5803A London Roar 517.54B LA Current 4625A Tokyo Frog Kings 380.56B Team Iron 340.57B Toronto Titans 3038A NY Breakers 239
2020 ISL Regular season TeamBudapest 1Budapest 2Budapest 3Budapest 4Budapest 5Budapest 6Budapest 7Budapest 8Budapest 9Budapest 10Total scorePoints 1 Cali Condors554 610.5 507 558 2229.5162 Energy Standard 456609 613 573.5 2251.5153 London Roar610.5 499 491.53981999134 LA Current360535 478.54951868.5 125 Iron393.5418.5448415.51675.5 116 Tokyo Frog Kings506.5446.54194281800 107 Toronto Titans4014483912891529 88 NY Breakers261394354.5296.51306 69 DC Trident3512872872561181510 Aqua Centurions339260290.52551144.54 KeyColourResultGoldWinnerPurpleDid not finish (DNF)BlackDisqualified (DSQ)WhiteDid not start (DNS)RedEliminated (ELM)BlankWithdrew entry fromthe event (WD)
Event winners 50 m freestyle MeetMenWomenWinnerTeamTimeWinnerTeamTimeBudapest 1 Florent Manaudou Energy Standard 20.63 Sarah Sjöström Energy Standard 23.48Budapest 2 Maxim Lobanovszkij Iron 20.92 Ranomi Kromowidjojo Iron 23.64Budapest 3 Vladimir Morozov Tokyo Frog Kings 20.98 Béryl Gastaldello Abbey Weitzeil LA Current 23.79Budapest 4 Caeleb Dressel Cali Condors 20.69 Kasia Wasick New York Breakers 23.43Budapest 5 Kristian Golomeev LA Current 20.97 Béryl Gastaldello LA Current 23.76Budapest 6 Florent Manaudou Energy Standard 20.55 Kasia Wasick New York Breakers 23.30Budapest 7 Florent Manaudou Energy Standard 20.77 Sarah Sjöström Energy Standard 23.41Budapest 8 Caeleb Dressel Cali Condors 20.65 Kasia Wasick New York Breakers 23.47Budapest 9 Bruno Fratus Tokyo Frog Kings 20.98 Sarah Sjöström Energy Standard 23.42Budapest 10 Caeleb Dressel Cali Condors 20.52 Abbey Weitzeil LA Current 23.45Budapest SF 1 Florent Manaudou Energy Standard 20.63 Sarah Sjöström Energy Standard 23.43Budapest SF 2 Caeleb Dressel Cali Condors 20.28 Ranomi Kromowidjojo Iron 23.37Budapest F Caeleb Dressel Cali Condors 20.16 Sarah Sjöström Energy Standard 23.55
100 m freestyle MeetMenWomenWinnerTeamTimeWinnerTeamTimeBudapest 1 Caeleb Dressel Cali Condors 45.87 Sarah Sjöström Energy Standard 51.17Budapest 2 Zach Apple DC Trident 45.74 Ranomi Kromowidjojo Iron 52.00Budapest 3 Alessandro Miressi Aqua Centurions 46.13 Béryl Gastaldello LA Current 51.71Budapest 4 Zach Apple DC Trident 45.94 Ranomi Kromowidjojo Iron 51.73Budapest 5 Zach Apple DC Trident 46.53 Béryl Gastaldello LA Current 51.30Budapest 6 Alessandro Miressi Aqua Centurions 46.27 Siobhán Haughey Energy Standard 51.30Budapest 7 Zach Apple DC Trident 46.50 Sarah Sjöström Energy Standard 51.32Budapest 8 Caeleb Dressel Cali Condors 46.12 Freya Anderson London Roar 51.87Budapest 9 Blake Pieroni Toronto Titans 46.33 Sarah Sjöström Energy Standard 51.64Budapest 10 Caeleb Dressel Cali Condors 45.56 Béryl Gastaldello LA Current 51.16Budapest SF 1 Florent Manaudou Energy Standard 45.92 Siobhán Haughey Energy Standard 51.12Budapest SF 2 Caeleb Dressel Cali Condors 45.20 Béryl Gastaldello LA Current 51.38Budapest F Caeleb Dressel Cali Condors 45.08 Béryl Gastaldello LA Current 51.38
200 m freestyle