WHEN AND WHERE TO WATCH THE INTERNATIONAL SWIMMING LEAGUE BUDAPEST MATCH

The 2019 International Swimming League matches are being broadcast on television live, delayed-live and via dedicated highlights programming in countries throughout the world.

The ISL makes its second trip to Europe on October 26th and 27th as Budapest, Hungary, will host the league’s fourth regular season match at Danube Arena.

Details of regular broadcasters by country appear below. For precise details of broadcaster coverage please check local listings.

● United States: ESPN3 - links will go live ahead of the match at

http://www.espn.com/watch?id=5b193eab-acbd-41b1-9128-27128c989e34 (26/10) and

http://www.espn.com/watch?id=894b42a0-cc02-4581-b3c4-0d3d6b3e32be (27/10)

• Europe and Asia-Pacific: Eurosport
• Australia: 7plus
• New Zealand: Spark
• Canada: CBC
• Latin America: Claro Sport
• Brazil: TV Globo
• Caribbean: FlowSports
• Israel: Sports 1
• Middle East/North Africa: Bein Sport

When to watch

Due to daylight savings time, some of the start times will change between Day 1 and Day 2.

• Local Budapest time - 6:00 p.m. (both days)
• New York, NY (Eastern)
• Saturday - 12:00 p.m
• Sunday - 1:00 p.m.
• Los Angeles, Ca. (Pacific)
• Saturday - 9:00 a.m.
• Sunday - 10:00 a.m.
• London, Eng. - 5:00 p.m. (both days)
• Tokyo, Jpn.
• Saturday - 1:00 a.m. (next day)
• Sunday - 2:00 a.m. (next day)
• Sydney, Aus.
• aturday - 3:00 a.m. (next day)
• Sunday - 4:00 a.m. (next day) 

Tickets are on sale now starting as low as 1500 HUF (4.50 EUR). ● Click here to purchase tickets. Four clubs will participate in the match: the LA Current, NY Breakers, Iron, and London Roar. These are the same four clubs that competed in the league’s previous match in Lewisville, Texas.

After the six-match regular season, the top four clubs will advance to the grand final at the 12,000-seat Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. What the athletes are saying “I view this as the summation of my life’s work, and am unbelievably stoked to see so many people hop on board.” - LA Current member Tom Shields. “It was a very exciting competition and quite different to any other meets I had done before. I really enjoyed the experience and I’m looking forward to this weekend.” - London Roar member Minna Atherton.

Event Schedule

Women Event # Day 1 Men Event # 1 100m Butterfly 2 3 50m Breaststroke 4 5 400m Individual Medley 6 7 400m Freestyle Relay 9 200m Backstroke 8 11 50m Freestyle 10 400m Medley Relay 12 13 200m Freestyle 14 15 50m Backstroke 16 17 200m Breaststroke 18 400m Freestyle Relay 19

Women Event # Day 2 Men Event # 20 100m Freestyle 21 22 100m Breaststroke 23 24 400m Freestyle 25 26 400m Medley Relay 28 200m Individual Medley 27 30 50m Butterfly 29 32 100m Backstroke 31 33 400m Mixed Freestyle Relay 33 34 200m Butterfly 35 36 50m Freestyle Skins 37 38 200m Mixed Medley Relay* 38

*In case of Team tie only Format Details

● 4 teams (LA Current, NY Breakers, Iron, London Roar)
● The suggested size of each club’s traveling roster is 24 athletes (12 men & 12 women), plus 4 substitutes (2 men & 2 women), for a total of 28.
● 2 athletes will compete per event per club.
● 2 relay teams will compete per relay event per club.
● The winning club will score 4 standings points, 2nd place earns 3 points, 3rd place earns 2 points, and 4th place earns 1 point. 

Scoring Rules

The scoring for each event will be as follows:

● Relays score double points; each swimmer receives 25% of team’s relay points.
● Skin races score triple points.
● In regular season meets, athletes earn $300 per point.

More ISL Info Over 100 Olympians are represented in the ISL, including 41 Olympic gold medalists from the 2016 Olympic Games. The ISL is groundbreaking in the swimming community as athletes will be paid both a salary and earn prize money based on their individual and club finishes. About $180,000 in prize money will be awarded at each regular season match, with nearly $1.5 million in prize money available for December’s grand final in Las Vegas. Men and women will share equal prize money. The ISL is engaging sports fans over each competition weekend with high-tempo two-hour matches. Experts in television, digital media and sports entertainment provide a compelling backdrop for the swimmers with cutting-edge production and live show fan engagement.

Among the athletes expected to compete in Budapest are current World Champions and local Hungarians Katinka Hosszu, Kristof Milak and Boglarka Kapas.

Hosszu, who is also an owner and general manager in addition to being a captain on the locally-based Iron club, is a three-time Olympic champion, nine-time Long Course World Champion, and the holder of six individual world records. In her debut ISL match in Lewisville, she won three events and was the third-highest point scorer overall

Milak, 19, shocked the world this past July when he broke Michael Phelps’ 10-year-old 200 butterfly world record en route to winning World Championships gold in South Korea. An Iron teammate of Hosszu, he won the men’s 200 fly at the Lewisville match and placed second in the 400 freestyle. Kapas is one of only three Hungarians in the ISL who are not members of Iron. The 26-year-old is a member of the London Roar, the club that won the first match, along with Budapest native Peter Bernek.

Kapas is the current World Champion in the women’s 200 butterfly. Joining Hosszu and Milak as Hungarians on Iron are Szebastian Szabo, Richard Bohus, Dominik Kozma, Adam Telegdy, David Verraszto, and Gergely Gyurta for the men, and Zsuzsanna Jakabos, Ajna Kesely, and Katalin Burian for the women. Other Headline Swimmers Expected to Race:

● Set to make his ISL debut will be Adam Peaty of the London Roar, arguably the most dominant male swimmer in the world. Peaty, a native of Great Britain, is currently the Olympic champion in the men’s 100 breaststroke, as well as being the three-time defending World Champion and world record holder in both the 50 and 100 breast. Also expected to make their debut for the Roar is fellow Brit James Guy and 2016 Olympic champion Mireia Belmonte of Spain.
● Russian Vladimir Morozov of Iron was named MVP in Lewisville as the top scorer with 43.5 points. Like Hosszu, he won three events, one of which being the match-ending skins which are worth triple points. Morozov is one of the most decorated short course swimmers in the world, owning 20 SC World Championship medals.
● Australians Cate Campbell, Emma McKeon, Kyle Chalmers and Minna Atherton were the top performers for the victorious London Roar in their first match, combining for eight individual and four relay wins. Chalmers is the reigning Olympic champion in the men’s 100 freestyle, and Campbell, McKeon, and Cate’s sister Bronte Campbell are all members of the women’s 4x100 freestyle relay that both won Olympic gold (2016) and set the world record (2018).
● Headlining for the American-based LA Current are individual Olympic champions Nathan Adrian, Ryan Murphy and Matt Grevers. Grevers (2012) and Murphy (2016) represent the last two Olympic gold medalists in the men’s 100 backstroke, and Adrian was the champion in the men’s 100 freestyle in London and added a bronze in Rio. ● Danish superstar Pernille Blume of the NY Breakers is the reigning Olympic champion in the women’s 50 freestyle and the third-fastest swimmer of all-time in the event. Joining her on the Breakers is captain, co-owner and SC World Champion Michael Andrew of the United States.

Meet Details:

● Who: LA Current, NY Breakers, Team Iron, London Roar
● What: Fourth competition of the International Swimming League’s inaugural season
● Where: Danube Arena Budapest, NépfürdÅ‘ u. 36, 1138 Hungary
● When: Saturday, October 26th @ 6:00 p.m. & Sunday, October 27th @ 6:00 p.m.

Each session is scheduled to run for two hours.

About the ISL: The International Swimming League is a global professional swimming competition launching in 2019 with teams in both Europe (Italy-based Aqua Centurions, France-based Energy Standard, Hungary-based Iron, and London Roar) and the United States (Cali Condors, DC Trident, LA Current, NY Breakers). The inaugural season will include matches in Indianapolis IN, Naples ITA, Lewisville TX, Budapest HUN, College Park MD, London GBR, and the championship finale at the 12,000-seat Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, NV. The ISL aims to create groundbreaking projects, in both form and content, exploring the full potential of competitive swimming while securing sustainable commercial growth in the sport. Key Dates: 5-6 October 2019 – IU Natatorium, Indianapolis, USA 12-13 October 2019 – Aquatic Swimming Complex, Naples, Italy 19-20 October 2019 – The LISD Westside Aquatic Center, Lewisville, Texas, USA 26-27 October 2019 – Duna Area, Budapest, Hungary 16-17 November 2019 – Natatorium at the Eppley Recreation Center, Maryland, USA 23-24 November 2019 – London Aquatic Centre, Great Britain 20-21 December 2019 – Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, USA 

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