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)
- Day 1 Finals Live Recap
- Eurovision Sport Livestream
During the second event of the evening at the European Short Course Championships, Irishman Daniel Wiffen ripped a new lifetime best and national record en route to winning the men’s 400m freestyle.
Wiffen notched a scorching time of 3:35.47 to top the podium, beating the field by well over a second. Behind him was Lithuanian Danas Rapsys who touched in 3;37.80 while Lucas Henveaux of Belgium clocked 3:37.91 for the bronze.
Wiffen’s time handily overtook his previous career-quickest outing of 3:38.40, a time he produced at the 2022 Irish Championships. He hacked nearly 3 seconds off that result to inch up on Frenchman Yannick Agnels’ 3:32.25 European Record from 2012.
Wiffen’s result this evening ranks him just outside the list of top 10 performers of all time.
The Loughborough-trained star owns the Irish records across the 400m/800m/1500m free events in both short course and long course formats.
For his part, Henveaux also established a new Belgian national record with his bronze medal-worthy 3:37.80. He re-lowered the 3:39.96 mark he set this morning by nearly 2 seconds for just his 2nd-ever result under the 3:40 threshold.
Wiffen’s second half is 1:48.07, if my calculations are correct. Factoring in the dive that’s a negative split.
1:47.55 out / 1:47.92 back.
Huge swim from D’Wiffen! Massive congratulations! 🔥
Where is Mitsin ? He beat him by 3 seconds this summer. What happened?
1st, Wiffen was wrecked after a hard summer and a cracking 1500 the day before.
2nd, no one cares. This article has nothing to do with him.
What happened to the Junior World Record holder who beat him with 3 seconds in the summer. Ah yeah, I told you guys 😂😂😂
Double posting requires a double answer.
1st, Wiffen was wrecked after a hard summer and a cracking 1500 the day before.
2nd, no one cares. This article has nothing to do with him.
Does anybody really care about SCM records here in the USA? USA Swimming does not care to offer SCM National Meets here in the US, so why do you all report on every other countries records.
Who was the last American to break a SCM World Record? David Johnson last summer???
Yes, people do care about SCM records. I enjoyed ISL, for example, when it was happening.
The only American men who currently hold SCM world records are Dressel, Locthe and Coleman Stewart. I think Johnston’s record was an American record, not WR.
because the world doesn’t revolve around america. you can make the same argument against scy
I agree with yards issue. However, why dosen’t USA Swimming offer a US National Meet SCM??? It would be nice to see how we do against the rest of world in SCM. It could be run either once a year or every two years. Or, SCY in the morning and SCM at night just like some meets are run now SCY in the morning and LC at night.
It would be fun to see our NCAA Relays go for World Record SCzm after NCAA’S are over.
A good example would be the D1 NCAA 200 Free Relay record. What does that convert to in SCM? Maybe a WR? It would be fun to watch… wouldn’t it!
Conversions are not accurate as has been discussed here a lot lately. I think you overestimate the chances that a WR would be broken.
That NCAA record has swimmers from multiple countries in it so it couldn’t be a world record anyway
Swimswam yards conversion is far from accurate.
Because Swimswam is not USA exclusive.
You must be brand new here.