Daniel Wiffen To Head For Dublin After Finish of Andi Manley Teaching Partnership; Will Additionally Practice At Cal-Berkeley
Daniel Wiffen will now not prepare with Andi Manley after the World Championships in Singapore with their partnership that secured Olympic and world titles coming to an finish.
As a substitute, he’ll head again to Eire the place he’ll prepare for the foreseeable future with Steve Beckerleg, head coach of the Nationwide Centre Dublin. He’ll additionally spend time at Cal-Berkeley the place twin brother Nathan is headed.
Wiffen informed Swimming World: “I’m nonetheless coaching with Andi till Worlds after which afterwards, we’ve got determined it could be higher for my profession to maneuver to a unique programme.
“For the meantime after worlds I will likely be going to Eire and coaching with Steve Beckerleg however I will likely be coaching at Cal Berkeley with my brother for prolonged durations throughout the season.”
Wiffen moved from the Swim Eire Nationwide Centre, Dublin, to Loughborough College the place he educated beneath Manley whereas pursuing his research in laptop science.
He thrived beneath Manley’s tutelage with a roll-call that secures him a spot on the very high desk of distance swimming following his first medal in worldwide waters with silver within the 1500 free on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham.
At Paris 2024, he gained 800 gold and 1500 bronze, the previous in a then European report of seven:38.19 which was lowered to 7:38.12 by Sven Schwarz in Stockholm this yr. Paris adopted double gold on the Doha worlds in February of Olympic yr.
The 23-year-old holds the 800 short-course WR with a time of seven:20.46 that demolished Grant Hackett’s earlier report by nearly three seconds en-route to one among three golds on the 2023 European Brief-Course Championships.
