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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/Day 3 Recap/Day 4 Recap Results – Meet Mobile: Irish Open Championships 2025The final night of action at the 2025 Irish Open Championships saw 24-year-old Olympic champion Daniel Wiffen roar his way to the wall for gold in the men’s 1500m freestyle.
Already having won the 400m and 800m distances at this competition, the Loughborough-based star produced a golden time of 14:42.71 to establish a new championship record.
Although his outing was off his lifetime best of 14:34.07 notched at last year’s World Championships, it was enough to dip under the 2018 record of 15:07.07 as well as the World Aquatics ‘A’ standard for the event.
Twin brother Nathan Wiffen, a Cal commit, reaped silver in 15:15.57 while National Centre Limerick’s Denis O’Brien collected bronze in 15:22.18.
Wiffen, who hasn’t been shy about his world record-setting goals, said post-race, ‘Amazing swim, I’m very happy with it.
“I would’ve liked my brother to have gone under the 15 minutes, but today wasn’t his day, so I’m sure he will have it in the future.
‘But mine, happy with the time, 14:42 is a world class time and it’s not far off of what won me the bronze medal in the Olympics, so I’m very pleased. It did hurt a lot, but it was worth it. Pretty solid times in all three (events), obviously came away with a gold medal and it was great to have such a lovely crowd cheer me the whole way.’
On what’s next for the Irishman, Wiffen stated, ‘Get a lot of training in, that’s the plan. I’ve got a lot of work to do, I’ve got a lot of ideas I want to do, and I’ve also got a big goal to win a couple of gold medals in the summer, so I’m going to work towards those goals and come away with a couple of medals.’
His effort rendered him the #2 swimmer in the world this season.
2024-2025 LCM Men 1500 Free
FlorianGERWellbrock 04/1314:38.272OliverKlemet GER14:43.0104/133DávidBETLEHEM HUN14:48.7304/094KazukiImafukuJPN14:50.1803/235SvenSCHWARZGER14:52.6204/13View Top 26»26-year-old Danielle Hill also nabbed a new meet record, posting a winning effort of 27.85 to take the women’s 50m back.
That was within striking distance of her own national record of 27.64 and beat the former meet mark of 28.11 she put on the books 2 years ago.
Olympian Hill also topped the women’s 50m free podium, putting up a solid result of 25.44.
At the conclusion of the competition, Swim Ireland National Performance Director Jon Rudd commented, ‘“Having completed five days of excellent racing, we can reflect back on some outstanding racing here in Dublin that gives us so much more to look forward to this summer.
‘With some fantastic young prospects breaking through into the senior ranks this week to join our established senior contingent, the World Championships in Singapore in July look very well set for Irish swimming.
‘When you see three Irish Senior and four Irish Junior records broken at this competition, it underlines even more that times are very good for Irish swimming and that we have already built on our success from the Paris Games.
‘We have a whole host of athletes to now consider for six National Teams this summer at age group, youth, and senior levels – so there is so much to anticipate for Irish swimming fans out there across June and July. Keep up the great work athletes and coaches – the big stages are ready for you”!’
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