2025 IRISH OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Saturday, April 12th – Wednesday, April 16th
- Sport Ireland National Aquatic Centre, Dublin, Ireland
- LCM (50m)
- SwimSwam Preview
- Meet Central
- Psych Sheet
- Day 1 Recap/Day 2 Recap
- Results – Meet Mobile: Irish Open Championships 2025
We entered day three of the 2024 Irish Open Championships with one national record biting the dust at the hands of 18-year-old John Shortt.
Shortt clocked a mark of 1:56.61 to claim the top spot out of the men’s 200m back semi-finals, lowering his previous Irish benchmark of 1:57.68 in the process. You can read more about his achievement here.
Olympic champion Daniel Wiffen was back in the water to follow-up his 800m free victory from last night in Dublin.
24-year-old Wiffen stopped the clock at 3:46.87 in an essentially one-man race, beating the field by almost 7 seconds.
The performance represents a season-best for the freestyle ace and now ranks the Loughborough standout 10th in the world this season.
2024-2025 LCM Men 400 Free
MÄRTENS
WR 3:39.96
| 2 | Oliver KLEMET | GER | 3:43.40 | 04/12 |
| 3 | Samuel SHORT | AUS | 3:43.84 | 04/04 |
| 4 | Florian WELLBROCK | GER | 3:45.29 | 04/12 |
| 5 | Kristóf RASOVSZKY | HUN | 3:45.32 | 04/10 |
| 6 | Kim Woomin | KOR | 3:45.54 | 03/28 |
| 7 | Carson FOSTER | USA | 3:46.42 | 03/06 |
| 8 | James GUY | GBR | 3:46.64 | 04/15 |
| 9 | Guilherme COSTA | BRA | 3:46.74 | 03/06 |
| 10 | Liu Peixin | CHN | 3:46.80 | 03/19 |
We reported how Wiffen, after clocking a world-leading effort of 7:41.52 in the 800m free, felt ‘disappointed’ with his result.
Tom Fannon grabbed the gold in the men’s 50m free, registering a podium-topping result of 21.91 as the sole swimmer of the field under the 22-second barrier.
Fannon was quicker in both the prelims (21.78) and semi-finals (21.77) with all three efforts clearing the World Aquatics ‘A’ standard of 22.05 needed to add his name to the Irish roster for Singapore.
Runner-up status behind Fannon went to Olympian Shane Ryan who logged 22.53, well off the mark he needed to solidify his slot on the Irish roster for this summer’s World Championships.
National record holder Mona McSharry accomplished her World Championships-qualifying mission, registering a time of 1:06.87 to grab gold in the women’s 100m breast.
University of Tennesee’s McSharry opened in 31.37 and closed in 35.50 to match the ‘A’ cut of 1:06.87 exactly.
Although she missed the ‘A’ cut, runner-up Ellie McCartney logged a time of 1:06.97 en route to silver, establishing the first-ever sub-1:07 time of her career. She and McSharry are the only Irish swimmers ever to have been in the 1:06-zone.
Additional Notes
- Grace Davison topped the women’s 100m free podium with a result of 56.08, well off her lifetime best of 55.21 from the 2023 McCullagh International Meet.
- Germany’s Luca Armbuster produced a winning effort of 52.38 to claim gold in the men’s 100m fly. The next-closest competitor was Jack Cassin who snagged silver in 53.14.
- Olympian and multi-national record holder Ellen Walshe got it done in the women’s 100m fly, earning the top seed out of the semi-final with an outing of 58.24. That already dipped under the World Aquatics ‘A’ mark of 58.33.
Not even faster than Zhang Lin’s first half in the 800 free.
Fink:Should I be worried about my WR？🤣
Zhang Lin went a 3:41.35 how about you swim faster than that first
I seriously don’t get the point of talking about that 800 world record and then doubling down in the post race interview. He’s the reigning Olympic champ, taking down a stacked field in an Olympic record time, so people are already going to be paying attention to his swims. It’s one thing to have lofty goals and not be scared to aim for them, but this is just unserious. 7:32 is an absolutely insane record set back when guys were wearing $1000 suits made of dolphin skin and polyurethane so buoyant guys were sitting higher on the water than Randy’s ski-doo at full throttle, even at the end of 800m of racing. It’s just not a time he should be… Read more »
at least hes putting his goals out there — most other swimmers hesitate to even admit they want to win races lol
“I’m just here to have fun and do my best”
Monotonous
400 still not fast enough to even consider breaking the 800 world record.