2025 IRISH OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
- April 12th – April 16th
- Sport Ireland National Aquatic Centre, Dublin, Ireland
- LCM (50m)
- Meet Central
23-year-old Daniel Wiffen made history at the 2024 Olympic Games by becoming Northern Ireland’s first Olympic gold medalist since 1972.
Wiffen earned gold in the men’s 800m freestyle and doubled up with bronze in the 1500m freestyle in Paris.
But the Loughborough-trained superstar isn’t resting on his laurels, already looking ahead to next month’s Irish Open Championships. He sees the five-day competition as a chance to potentially break another world record.
“I want to be a full-time world record holder and that’s what my goals are now, going forward,” Wiffen recently told RTE.
“I hold one world record already. I want three more and I want them within the next four years, so that’s what my goal is.”
The twin to Nathan Wifffen, a recent Cal Commit, continued, “On the build to LA we’ve got three and a half years, it’s going to be defend that medal, make my bronze a gold and try and win another gold at least”.
“From 12 – 16 April we’ve got the Irish Championships, and that’ll be my first big meet since the Olympics and I’m aiming to beat the world record there and that’s only 5 weeks away.”
As for Los Angeles 2028, Wiffen said of his twin, “We’ll both be on the podium…I’d like for us to be joint first but obviously I’m going to win and Nathan’s going to come second.”
Break 1500m WR? That’s possible, but if you say you want to break 800m WR, please stop daydreaming. This WR is equivalent to swimming two 345 in a row, and from the point of view of the segmentation results, every 50m is very average (this is the most terrible place of this WR). You may be able to lead WR in the first 400. But you will face a physical decline, and the WR will gradually fly away
the long course 800 free WR is not going anywhere anytime soon. I see someone swimmer a 7.35 in the next few years but you will practically have to go a sub 7.32 to set a new world record which is wild and not attainable by any active swimmer.
Basically, a swimmer has to swim 3:45 back to back to break 800 free WR
The one who could have done it is peak Ian Thorpe and he’d had to train for it.
Which three? Let’s be honest. No one is touching the 800fr WR for another century
I dont like hating however, i think he is waaaaay too optimistic, however ig thats what it takes to be elite
Totally confused. Where does he train and why does he swim for Ireland.