Ireland’s Daniel Wiffen has smashed a
second and third Irish Senior Record on his way to 1500m Freestyle Gold at the
Stockholm Swim Open in Sweden, having set a new 400m Freestyle Irish standard
yesterday.
The Loughborough based swimmer swam a
blistering 14:34.91 in this evening’s Final, knocking over 15 seconds off his
own Irish Record of 14:51.79, a time had won him Silver at the 2022
Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. The time is the fastest in the World this
season, with Germany’s Florian Wellbrock now ranked second in 14:40.18.
The time makes WIffen the fourth
fastest man in the World ever in the event; just outside the European Record of
14:33.10 and World Record of 14:31.01, it also makes the Tokyo Olympian the
second fastest European ever.
In winning, Wiffen held off Tokyo
2020 Olympic silver medallist in the event, Mykhaylo Romanchuk of Ukraine in
14:40.21.
During today’s swim, Wiffen also
shaved two tenths of a second off his 800m Freestyle Irish Record, lowering
that from 7:46.52 to 7:46.32. The 22-year-old returns to the pool on Sunday to
swim that event.
Yesterday, the 22-year-old posted the
second fastest time in the World this season, clocking 3:44.35 in the 400m
Freestyle, to break his own 2022 Irish Record of 3:46.22.
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