After surgery and recovery, Wiffen, who won gold in the men’s 800m freestyle in Paris 2024, made the decision to move his training base from Loughborough University to Berkeley, California, alongside his brother Nathan. Ahead of next week’s Irish Open Swimming Championships, which take place in Bangor from April 8-12, Wiffen says he will consider … Read more
By his own unfailingly lofty standards, Daniel Wiffen finishing some 12 seconds outside the 1,500m freestyle world record may have felt initially underwhelming, but the Armagh swimmer quickly realised some proper context. The men’s 1,500m freestyle world record has only been broken four times in the last 30 years, Sun Yang from China lowering it … Read more
As sales pitches go for a national championships, Daniel Wiffen delivers a fine one for the Irish Open in Dublin this month. The double Olympic medallist is aiming to do something no Irish swimmer has done before and set a world record on Irish soil, or more specifically, in Irish water. And he adds to … Read more