LEN is delighted to confirm that
Irish swimmer Daniel Wiffen’s 800m freestyle gold medal-winning time of seven
minutes and 25.96 seconds has been officially ratified as a new European short
course record.
Wiffen achieved the landmark time at
the Irish Winter Championships on 15th December 2022.
It was an achievement made all the
more remarkable given it was quicker than the time achieved by gold medallist
Gregorio Paltrinieri at the World Swimming (25m) Championships, which were
taking place at the same time in Melbourne, Australia.
“I’m so happy and it’s class to have
my name up there on the record sheets with all of the best swimmers in Europe,”
Wiffen told Swim Ireland after the ratification.
Wiffen, who won Commonwealth silver
for Northern Ireland at Birmingham 2022 last summer, won the 400m freestyle
title at the Irish Open Swimming Championships in Dublin at the weekend.
The 21-year-old Loughborough-based
swimmer was using the event as part of his continued build up to the 2023 World
Aquatics Championships in July and inaugural LEN U23 European Championships in
Dublin the following month.
“I’d like to say I’m more of a long
course than short course swimmer, so I’d like to get some of those conversions
underway and try for some British, European and maybe even world records, so to
excite the swimming fans,” he said.
“The World Championships in Japan
will be a bit one, where I’ll do my main events, but then I have a home championships
here in Dublin with the European U23’s where I’ll be going for gold in front of
home fans!
“So, European (long course) records
and (being) on the podium at Worlds are definitely the aims for this
season.”Wiffen received his European record certificate during a Swim Ireland
ceremony in Dublin, which also included Para-swimmer Roisin Ni Riain, who
acheived a new world short course record of 2:21.20 in the S13 200m backstroke
event at the same event in December.
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