Daniel Wiffen To Head For Dublin After End of Andi Manley Coaching Partnership; Will Also Train At Cal-Berkeley
Daniel Wiffen will no longer train with Andi Manley after the World Championships in Singapore with their partnership that secured Olympic and world titles coming to an end.
Instead, he will head back to Ireland where he’ll train for the foreseeable future with Steve Beckerleg, head coach of the National Centre Dublin. He’ll also spend time at Cal-Berkeley where twin brother Nathan is headed.
Wiffen told Swimming World: “I’m still training with Andi until Worlds and then afterwards, we have decided it would be better for my career to move to a different programme.
“For the meantime after worlds I will be going to Ireland and training with Steve Beckerleg but I will be training at Cal Berkeley with my brother for extended periods across the season.”
Wiffen moved from the Swim Ireland National Centre, Dublin, to Loughborough University where he trained under Manley while pursuing his studies in computer science.
He thrived under Manley’s tutelage with a roll-call that secures him a place at the very top table of distance swimming following his first medal in international waters with silver in the 1500 free at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
At Paris 2024, he won 800 gold and 1500 bronze, the former in a then European record of 7:38.19 which was lowered to 7:38.12 by Sven Schwarz at this year’s German Championships. Paris followed double gold at the Doha worlds in February of Olympic year.
The 23-year-old holds the 800 short-course WR with a time of 7:20.46 that demolished Grant Hackett’s previous record by almost three seconds en-route to one of three golds at the 2023 European Short-Course Championships.
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