Daniel Wiffen ends California experiment as LA ambitions drive Dublin move

Daniel Wiffen and his twin brother Nathan have moved their training base from the University of California to Dublin after their six months in the States failed to deliver 

Daniel Wiffen: "I’d like to think I’m a guaranteed two-gold medallist for LA, so it makes it exciting for Ireland to have medal contenders in the national centre." Pic: ©INPHO/Bryan Keane

True to his word, Daniel Wiffen has ended his short-lived California experiment as he seeks the comfort of being challenged in more familiar surroundings.

A gold and bronze medallist in the Paris Olympics, Wiffen is targeting a two-gold haul in Los Angeles in 2028 and so, just six months after departing his Loughborough University base to join his twin Nathan at the University of California in Berkeley, they have both moved back to train out of the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin.