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Ireland’s Daniel Wiffen is through to the 800m freestyle final at the European Short Course Swimming Championships [25m] in Lublin.<\/b><\/p>\n
The Olympic 800m freestyle champion finished as the fourth fastest in qualifying with a time of 7:34.60 as he progressed to Saturday’s final.<\/p>\n
He was second in his heat behind Hungary’s Zalan Sarkany, who finished in a time of 7:33.85.<\/p>\n
Wiffen won bronze in the men’s 400m freestyle on Tuesday and put in a late surge to retain his 1500m freestyle title on Thursday<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Magheralin man finished ahead of Hungarian Sarkany by 1.55 seconds to win his first gold medal since he had surgery on his appendix in August.<\/p>\n Great Britain’s Jack McMillan, who won gold in the 400m in Poland, failed to progress to the semi-finals of the 100m freestyle.<\/p>\n McMillan, an Olympic and world champion in the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay who is from Belfast, topped his heat with a time of 47.02, but was 18th fastest overall and is second reserve for Friday night’s semi-finals.<\/p>\n Ireland’s Ellen Walsh advanced to the semi-finals of the women’s 200m individual medley by qualifying as sixth fastest as she topped her heat in a time of 2:09.21.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n