Tokyo 2020 multiple champion Emma McKeon of Australia will undeniably be the star in Berlin. The 27-year-old swimming ace has amassed no less than seven medals at the Olympics last summer (4 gold and 3 bronze). These medals were added to her already impressive Rio 2016 Olympic tally where she won two silver medals and one bronze.

McKeon claimed her first World title in Kazan 2015 in the 4x100 free relay team, as well as three relay gold medals in Gwangju 2019.

Rio 2016 gold medallist and World champion Kyle Chalmers will also reinforce the Australian delegation this weekend. Fresh from his Tokyo silver medal in the 100m free, Chalmers is a Swimming World Cup veteran with nine gold medals collected between 2015-2018, 17 in total.

Still with the Australians, Holly Barratt will be defending her titles in the 50m back and fly which she clinched in the Singapore stage in 2019. Barratt holds one World Championships bronze (relay) and three short-course World Championships medals.

Third in the 2019 overall ranking Michelle Coleman (SWE) is one to watch for in the sprints. She claimed 27 SWC medals since 2011, including a gold medal in the 50m free in Berlin at the latest edition.

After outstanding performances in Tokyo where she claimed two silver medals (in the 100m back and 200m back) as well as a bronze in the 4x100m Medley Relay, multiple World champion Kylie Masse from Canada is attending the Berlin leg too.

In the men’s pool, Tokyo 2020 Marathon Swimming Olympic champion and bronze medallist in the 1500m as well as World title holder in both events, Florian Wellbrock is expected to be the crowd-pleaser in Berlin. At 22 in 2019, he became the first swimmer to win both the 1500m free and the 10km open water race at a FINA competition. Now 24, he will be defending his 2019 World Cup title in Berlin in the 1500m free.

Swimming World Cup current overall title holder Vladimir Morozov (RUS) has entered the 50m free, 50m breast and 50m fly for the SWC inaugural stage. Morozov is an experienced SWC swimmer with 168 medals clinched since 2012.

Arno Kamminga (NED) with 26 SWC titles and 400m free World champion Danas Rapsys (LTU) will also make waves this weekend. Interestingly, Rapsys was the fastest in the 200m and 400m free at every single meet of the SWC 2019 and smashed the new World Cup records he established in both events in Tokyo (JPN), in Jinam (CHN) and then in Singapore (SGP).

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The 2021 circuit next stop in Budapest (HUN) on October 7-9, and then in Doha (QAT, October 21-23) and Kazan (RUS, October 28-30).