Seebohm and Larkin win respective Swimmers of the Meet titles

Dubai - The final session of the two-day event promised a world class swimming spectacle, and it delivered just that for around 2500 spectators as the world's best swimmers battled it out for World Cup glory in the last session of the last leg for the year.

 South Africa's Cameron van der Burgh and Hungary's Katinka Hosszu were crowned the Fina/airweave Swimming World Cup overall champions at Hamdan Sports Complex Sunday night.
The final session of the two-day event promised a world class swimming spectacle, and it delivered just that for around 2500 spectators as the world's best swimmers battled it out for World Cup glory in the last session of the last leg for the year.
And in the final presentation of the evening, the overall winners for men and women, van der Burgh and Hungary's Katinka Hosszu, received their $100,000 winners cheque. For Hosszu this is the fourth consecutive win, while for van der Burgh it is his third, having won previously in 2008 and 2009.
Hosszu also claimed the Tokyo-Doha-Dubai Cluster win for the women, with Mitch Larkin of Australia taking out the men's point-score. Both received $50,000 for their win.
Larkin also won male Swimmer of the Meet, with teammate Emily Seebohm taking out the award for female Swimmer of the Meet.
The competition in the pool was fast and furious from the outset, with the first race, the women's 100m freestyle seeing Australia's Melanie Wright take the 50-100m free double, touching out Hosszu by .02 of a second. Italy's Federica Pellegrini had to settle for bronze.
Wright said: "I knew that Katinka would be a lot faster tonight (Sunday), she gets fired up when she doesn't win so I knew she'd be coming hard in the last lap. My strength is my finishing speed so I had to back myself and I was lucky to get the touch. I've really enjoyed the World Cup, it's been a good block of racing."
The next race was just as thrilling, with UAE-based Velimir Stjepanovic being urged on by a very vocal crowd in the 200m freestyle. Stjepanovic lead at every turn but was mowed down in the last few metres by James Guy, Guy finishing just .03 ahead of him, with 100m winner Jeremy Stravius in third.
The battle of the world's best men's breaststrokers was next up, with all three medallists from the 100m at the World Championships - Adam Peaty, van Der Burgh and Ross Murdoch - in the fray. Van der Burgh again managed to overcome Peaty to finish first, with Peaty second and Murdoch third. The win gave van der Burgh a clean sweep in both the 50m and 100m across all eight stops of the Swimming World Cup.
Bruno Fratus took out the splash and dash 50m freestyle ahead of Chad Le Clos and Anthony Ervin, but Le Clos added another gold in the 100m butterfly, finishing ahead of Tom Shields and Singapore's Zheng Wen Quah.
After the battle of the breaststrokers, it was the battle of the backstrokers, with Australia's Emily Seebohm going for a clean sweep in the 100m. Hosszu pushed her hard but Seebohm held on for the win, finishing.39 off world record.
Hosszu was also beaten to the wall in the 400m freestyle by New Zealand's Lauren Boyle, with Jaz Carlin in third.
Mitch Larkin and David Plummer's rivalry in the 50m backstroke continued, with Plummer beating Larkin to the wall by just .04 of a second. Larkin recovered though to post an emphatic win in the 200m, beating Masaki Kaneko by over 5 seconds.
In other results Felicia Lee rounded off a great meet, taking her second gold of the meet in the 50m butterfly, to go with her gold in the 100m. Alia Atkinson managed to hold off Molly Hannis to take the 50m breaststroke, and the 50m/100m double.