2023 EUROPEAN SHORT COURSE SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- December 5-10, 2023
- Otopeni Olympic Swimming Complex, Bucharest, Romania
- Short Course Meters (25 meters)
- Prelims 2:30am (ET), Finals 11am (ET)
- Entries Book
- Live Results (Omega)
- Live Results (Microplus Timing)
- Eurovision Sport Livestream
MEN’S 800 FREESTYLE – FINALS
World Record: Grant Hackett (AUS) – 7:23.42 (2008)European Record: Daniel Wiffen (IRL) – 7:25.96 (2022)SC Euros Record: Gregorio Paltrinieri (ITA) – 7:27.94 (2021)
Top 8:
- Daniel Wiffen (IRL) – 7:20.46 *WORLD RECORD*
- David Aubry (FRA) – 7:30.32
- Mykhailo Romanchuk (UKR) – 7:31.20
- Victor Johansson (SWE) – 7:33.11
- Lucca De Tullio (ITA) – 7:34.08
- Dimitrios Markos (GRE) – 7:36.46
- Felix Auboeck (AUT) – 7:38.26
- Nathan Wiffen (IRL) – 7:39.99
Daniel Wiffen gave a great show to the crowd present in the Otopeni pool where he swam the new World Record of the 800 freestyle. After an epic week for him and for all the Irish sport Wiffen talked to SwimSwam about his races at the SC European Championships. The Irish rising star spoke about his love of sharing his life on Youtube and the emotion of beating a WR who belonged to his idol Grant Hackett.
Pretty cool he got to do it with his brother in the race for finals with him.
Distance events have been so strong the last few years. Can’t wait to see these races in Paris =)
They really have. I can’t think of any other events that have so many swimmers who could win. Women’s 400 free is pretty awesome too. So excited for Paris.
Comes across as a down to earth low-key guy. Amazing achievement!
Breaking the oldest WR in swimming didn’t create nowhere hype as much as a 16 yo boy breaking SCY NAG record lol.
americans don’t understand SCM (or LCM for that matter)
Yea man i gotta agree with you, that Michael Phelps guy was such a noob, he couldn’t figure out LCM for the life of him. And if only Caeleb Dressel could have won and set records at the Olympics like he did at NCAAs. I bet Caeleb would have been capable of at least 3 SCM world records if he had only understood it. Oh wait….
And just so you know, there is a reason that Summer Love’s statement is true. In 5 years the name wiffen and this swim will be all but forgotten. At the young age of 16 Thomas Heilman is proving that he is capable of being the greatest swimmer since Phelps (yup the same… Read more »
That’s not what he meant…
😔
The worst type of fan
in regards to your last sentence, Wiffen placed 4th at 2023 Worlds in what was the #1 or #2 fastest 800 heat in History where he broke a European record, while Heilman placed 4th in a heat that will not likely go down as being historically relevant
But without commentary, they objectively both placed 4th.
More speech
Ridiculous. I am looking forward to the end of the year recap where Swimswam staff are going ignore this swim and put some random yards race in the top 10 performances
It was hilarious last year when a SCY age group record ranked above 5 world records lol
Of course they will lol
What’s his LCM PB?
7:39.19 lcm from worlds, comparable with hackett’s
9th all-time, just 0.03 behind Thorpe.
🙌 Great to see, wonderful example to all athletes.