Daniel Wiffen
IRISH OLYMPIC SWIMMER
2x WORLD CHAMPION & 3x EUROPEAN CHAMPION
Daniel Wiffen is a swimmer from Northern Ireland who competes at Olympic Games, World and European championships level for Ireland and at the Commonwealth Games for Northern Ireland.
Daniel won the 800 and 1500 metres freestyle at the 2024 world championships, the first time a male Irish swimmer had become world champion.
In 2023, Daniel was crowned the 2023 European short-course (25-metre pool) champion over 400, 800 and 1500 metres freestyle, the first Irish swimmer to win European short-course gold.
Daniel also holds the 800 metres freestyle short-course world record with a time of 7:20.46.
In the 2022 Commonwealth Games he won the silver medal for Northern Ireland in the 1500 metres freestyle.
DANIEL WIFFEN
IN THE MEDIA
Daniel Wiffen: Ireland swimmer ‘can win Olympic medals’ after double gold in Doha
Daniel Wiffen is capable of winning medals at this summer’s Paris Olympics, according to Swim Ireland national performance director Jon Rudd. The Irish swimmer collected his second gold medal at the World Aquatic Championships in Doha on Sunday by winning the 1500m freestyle final. The 22-year-old had won Ireland’s first gold medal in the 800m freestyle event. “For sure he can. He has all the tools. Whether he will is a different matter,” said Rudd of Olympic medal hopes. “There were some high quality athletes missing at this world championships and there were a couple that underperformed, but he [Wiffen] is of the calibre and we will all work together to try and get him over the line.”
DANIEL WIFFEN
IN THE MEDIA
Daniel Wiffen named Best Male Swimmer at World Aquatics Championships after second gold
Rarely if ever has there been a global coming of age like this one, Daniel Wiffen producing another absolute masterclass in freestyle swimming to win his second gold medal at the World Aquatics Championships, and then the ultimate prize of approval to go with it. Such was the dominance and devastating margin with which Wiffen won the 1,500m freestyle, adding to his 800m gold from last Wednesday evening, that he wasn’t yet done with his crowning moments inside the Aspire Dome in Doha. At age 22, this is indeed Wiffen’s time.
DANIEL WIFFEN
IN THE MEDIA
History for Ireland as swimmer Daniel Wiffen smashes 800m world record
It was a proud day for Daniel Wiffen and Irish swimming as the Down man set a new 800m world record at the European Short Course Swimming Championships. Wiffen took 800m gold in a time of 7:20.46, taking almost three seconds off Grant Hackett’s record of 7:23.42, which the Australian set in 2008.
DANIEL WIFFEN
IN THE MEDIA
Daniel Wiffen breaks oldest world record to secure his third European gold
Daniel Wiffen smashed the oldest world swimming record on the books in the 800m freestyle final yesterday to claim victory at the European Short Course Championships in Otopeni, Romania. The Down man had already set the European record of 7:25.96, but took almost three seconds off Australia’s Grant Hackett’s 2008 time of 7:23.42 yesterday, touching the wall in an incredible 7:20.46.
DANIEL WIFFEN
IN THE MEDIA
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