Daniel Wiffen: ‘The rate of my improvement is scary for the opposition’
Ireland's Daniel Wiffen receives his gold medal after winning the 800m Freestyle in a world record time at the European Short Course Swimming Championships Photo: Sportsfile
For Daniel Wiffen, Tuesday nights are all about turns. It’s when the 22-year-old Armagh swimmer makes use of the Kistler system at Loughborough University – a high-tech, high-cost piece of technology which, with 360-degree underwater cameras, helps him to find a fraction of a second.
Come the Paris Olympics, that could make all the difference for Wiffen, who’ll try to win Ireland its first swimming medal for 28 years.
