Episode 2646
Daniel Wiffen
Wed, 2024-Jul-31 01:15 UTC
Length - 1:40
Direct Link
Welcome to Popular Wiki of the Day, spotlighting Wikipedia's most visited pages, giving you a peek into what the world is curious about today.
With 268,687 views on Tuesday, 30 July 2024 our article of the day is Daniel Wiffen.
Daniel Wiffen (born 14 July 2001) is a swimmer from Northern Ireland who competes at the Olympic Games, World championships and European championships for Ireland and at the Commonwealth Games for Northern Ireland. He is the Olympic and world champion at 800 metres.
Wiffen won gold at the men's 800 metre freestyle final at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, setting an Olympic record time of 7:38.19. He won the 800 and 1500 metres freestyle at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships in Doha, the first time a male Irish swimmer had become world champion. He won the 400, 800 and 1500 metre freestyle at the 2023 European Swimming Championships (25m) in Otopeni, and the inaugural European Under-23 title in 2023 in Dublin.
Wiffen holds the 800 metres freestyle short-course world record with a time of 7:20.46.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:15 UTC on Wednesday, 31 July 2024.
For the full current version of the article, see Daniel Wiffen on Wikipedia.
This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.
Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.
Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.
Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.
Until next time, I'm standard Matthew.
|
|
Buy WotD Stuff!!
