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We sat down with Dan Wiffen, the Irishman who became the #4 performer in history in the 1,500 freestyle this weekend in Stockholm. He discusses what he was expecting out of himself heading into the meet as well as how he has elevated his training over the past 6 months to reflect his performances. Wiffen is at the point where he’s calling out sets to challenge himself (he notes 6×500 on 5:30 best average).
Wiffen makes it clear that now, with only 4 more seconds to shave off, he’s gunning for Sun Yang’s legendary 14:31.02 world record. What does he need to do to drop under 14:31? In his words, “I just need to swim again.”
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Bad news for sam short
Wellbrock just went 14:34,89
From not even being sub 15 all that long ago to this is incredible. Absolutely no reason to not aim for the sun after his recent swim.
While Wellbrock and Romanchuk deserve mentions, the expected battle between Wiffen, Fink, and Paltrinieri really excites me
Pun master out here
This did not age well. Wellbrock is now again faster than Wiffen, swam a PB in Berlin today.
I think the men’s distance frees may be the events I’m most excited for this summer, as well as the women’s 400. Good time for the distance crew
yet australia has none…..men that is, sad state of affairs
Short just swam an untapered 7:42 to lead this year’s world rankings by 1.5 seconds
Actually Stepanov of Russia leads the world ranking.
Sorry, should have said “to lead the world rankings of countries attending the World Championships”
if only we could find a feed where they won’t drop out for ads 🙁
Coleman processing the six sub 5 min 500m on 5:30 is great.
There are some absolutely bonkers stories about sets distance legends have done, so this one didn’t surprise me like it did Coleman, but impressive nonetheless.
That is truly insane.
1500 looking juicy. Paltrinieri, Wiffen, Finke, Wellbrock.
WR time.
Don’t forget Romanchuk
and hafanoui
Is Hafanoui really a threat in the 1500? I know he is in the 400, but don’t think I’ve seen him do anything this amazing in the 1500.
SCM he has, LCM we’ll have to see.
Hafanoui is not in conversation for 1500 in Fukuoka.
romanchuk wont be at paris cuz of boycott 🙁
gonna take a sub 14:30 to win at worlds
I know it’s off topic but Milak just swam a 1:52:58 at hungarian nationals in the 200 fly.
So it’s confirmed Le Clos isn’t winning the 100 fly then if Milak is still in good form
And even if Milak gets beaten it’s going to be Liendo or maybe Casas. Also, why wouldn’t he be in good form?
Perhaps I’m missing a joke, but since when were we talking about Le Clos winning anything.
Milaks been the pretty clear #2 (#1 now) in the world in the 100 fly ever since Tokyo, we can discuss Liendo maybe challenging him but no chance Le Clos can go under 50.
I think Le Clos is the only one missing the joke.
Chad said the other day that he was confident about winning the 100fly in Paris. (Or something like that. I can’t remember the exact phrasing.) Mamy people found that quite amazing / weird given how he’s not in the top bunch of active 100 flyers.
He was talking about a Meet in paris.. probably a Local Masters one
lolz
Out in 54.00. Slow by his standard. He still has something in store.
He was out very slow, he basically backhalfed a 1:52 which is insane.
I can see he doing that on Prelims/Semis at World to just make everyone look age groupers
Apparently, he was focusing on freestyle for these nationals, which didn’t show in his 100 free, but also didn’t show in his 200 fly xd.
58.6 on the back half, or 29.3 per 50, which isn’t actually all that ridiculous when you look at splits from his 1:51s and 1:50s.
But yeah that 1:52.5 is business as usual is kinda insane
Yeah the crazy thing is, he takes it out slow by his standard and comes home also relatively slow by his standard and is still faster than anyone this season.