Kilkenny’s Maria Godden also sets new PB
Tokyo 2020 Olympian Daniel Wiffen
tonight set a landmark Irish Senior Record at Leg 2 of the FINA Swimming World
Cup in Budapest, Hungary.
The 20-year-old became the first
Irish swimmer to swim 1500m Freestyle in less than 15 minutes when clocking
14:48.24 in the FINA World Cup Final.
The performance earned him fourth
overall in the event, his time just 0.09s slower than the time Austrian Felix
Auboeck posted to finish on the podium in third.
It also lowered the Irish Senior
Record of 15:00.88 that Andrew Meegan set in the 25m pool in 2013 - and means
Wiffen now holds the Irish Senior Records for long course (50m) 800m and 1500m and short course (25m) 800m
and 1500m.
The performance comes 24hrs after
Wiffen set a big new personal best of 3:48.59 in 200m Freestyle.
Ireland's Maria Godden also hit a
personal best in Budapest on Friday, shaving half a second off her previous
best when swimming 2:00.57 in the 200m Freestyle heats.
The Kilkenny swimmer also came close
to a personal best in 100m Backstroke, going 0.16s slower when clocking
1:00.79. She's back in the pool on Saturday for the 100m Freestyle and 200m
Backstroke heats.
Wiffen's Saturday test will be 400m
Freestyle, and the pair will be joined on the final day of action in Budapest
by Eoin Corby, who tackles 200m Breaststroke, having finished seventh in
Thursday’s 100m Breaststroke Final.
On Friday, Corby took on 50m
Breaststroke and posted 27.48s to finish 11th overall. The time was 0.21s off
his best, which he posted in December 2019 at the last Irish National Short
Course Championships.
He holds all Ireland's junior records
for Breaststroke and missed out on a place at Tokyo 2020 by 0.06s. Godden holds
three Irish Junior Records.
The 2021 FINA SWC circuit next stop
is Doha, Qatar (October 21-23), where Molly Mayne will compete for Ireland. The
competition concludes in Kazan, Russia (October 28-30).
FINA Swimming World Cup - Budapest,
Hungary
Competition Schedule | FINA Official https://www.fina.org/competitions/1381/fina-swimming-world-cup-2021/schedule?phase=All
Download PDF Competition Schedule https://www.omegatiming.com/File/0001150010FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF1E.pdf
Competition Results | FINA Official https://www.fina.org/competitions/1381/fina-swimming-world-cup-2021/results
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Track Irish records: Irish National
Short Course Records - Updated Sept 20
Irish Swimmers at FINA Swimming World
Cup 2021
Budapest - October 7-9
Daniel Wiffen - 200m, 400m, 1500m
Freestyle
Eoin Corby - 50m, 100m, 200m
Breaststroke
Maria Godden - 100m, 200m Freestyle,
100m, 200m Backstroke
Doha - October 21-23
Molly Mayne - 50m, 100m, 200m
Breaststroke, 100m Butterfly, 100m, 400m Individual Medley
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