The 2016 FINA Swimming World Cup was a series of nine two-day meets in nine different cities between August and October 2016.
After switching to long-course (50 meter) pools in the previous year's pre-Olympic season, this edition returned to the usual short-course (25 meter pool) format.
[1] Like the previous short course World Cup in 2014, 36 events were scheduled.
The 2016 World Cup consisted of the following nine meets, which were divided into three clusters.
[3] Overall top 10:[5][6] Overall top 10:[5][7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] Legend: WR – World record; WJR – World Junior record; WC – World Cup record