2023 SWIM OPEN STOCKHOLM
- Thursday, April 13th – Sunday, April 16th
- Stockholm, Sweden
- LCM (50m)
- World Championships Qualifier
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Ireland’s premier freestyler has done it again, as 21-year-old Daniel Wiffen lowered his own national record in the men’s 400m freestyle tonight.
While competing on day one of the Swim Open Stockholm, Wiffen produced the faster time of his career, hitting 3:44.35 en route to gold.
That denied the gold to a stacked field, one which included Austrian Felix Auboeck, Lithuanian Danas Rapsys and Ukrainian Mykhailo Romanchuk.
Auboeck settled for silver in a still-speedy 3:44.71 while Rapsys rounded out the top 3 in 3:46.56. Romanchuk placed 4th in a time of 3:46.66.
Entering this competition, Wiffen’s personal best and Irish national record stood at the 3:46.62 he logged at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. That rendered the Loughborough swimmer the 4th place finisher, just .13 outside of the bronze medal.
With tonight’s result, Wiffen knocked well over a second and a half off his best-ever to establish the new Irish standard.
| Previous Wiffen Record | New Wiffen Record |
| 54.39 | 54.00 |
| 57.56 | 56.52 |
| 58.26 | 56.94 |
| 56.41 | 56.89 |
| 3:46.62 | 3:44.35 |
Wiffen’s 3:44.35 now ranks him 2nd in the world this season, sitting only behind leader Lucas Martens of Germany who wears the crown in 3:43.32.
2022-2023 LCM Men 400 Free
Short
3:40.68
| 2 | Ahmed Hafnaoui | TUN | 3:40.70 | 07/23 |
| 3 | Lukas Martens | GER | 3:42.20 | 07/23 |
| 4 | Elijah Winnington | AUS | 3:43.48 | 06/13 |
| 5 | Guilherme Costa | BRA | 3:43.58 | 07/23 |
Tonight’s performance is simply in line with the trajectory for on-fire Wiffen. Last year he became Ireland’s first-ever European Record holder when he clocked a time of 7:25.96 in the SCM 800 free.
He is the national record holder in the LCM 800m free with his 7:46.32 from last year’s World Championships while he also notched new Irish marks in the SCM 400 and 1500 freestyle events last December.
WOW, got to find this race online to watch. What a stacked field and to think a 3.46.6 didn’t make the medal Dias would make it a very enjoyable race to watch. Great work gentlemen and congrats to Daniel on the win. This man making waves, top shelf swim.
British news:
According to Peaty’s recent IG stories and Alex Pussieldi, Adam is currently in Sant Cugat (Spain) training with Ben Titley for 2 weeks.
https://bestswimming.swimchannel.net/2023/04/13/adam-peaty-experimenta-duas-semanas-de-training-camp-em-barcelona/
Spanish Swimming news’ Twitter account also confirmed the news:
https://twitter.com/swim_news_/status/1646556003226222611?cxt=HHwWpoCwscH93tktAAAA
Will the Pro series this quality?
uh, no
Like many others, his trajectory since going to Loughborough has been extraordinary – As long as you aren’t training with the PC anyway. Congrats.
He is quietly putting himself down as a gold medal contender in several events.
That time is no Loughing matter