{"id":533574,"date":"2023-07-26T04:43:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T11:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=533574"},"modified":"2023-07-26T05:51:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T12:51:03","slug":"world-championships-night-4-ahmed-hafnaoui-gets-revenge-in-800-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-night-4-ahmed-hafnaoui-gets-revenge-in-800-free\/","title":{"rendered":"World Championships, Night 4: Ahmed Hafnaoui Gets Revenge in &#8216;Insane&#8217; 800 Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World Championships, Night 4: Ahmed Hafnaoui Gets Revenge in &#8216;Insane&#8217; 800 Free<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ahmed Hafnaoui<\/strong> was not pleased by gracious on Monday night after being touched out in the men\u2019s 400 freestyle by <strong>Sam Short.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Living well proved the best revenge.<\/p>\n<p>The Tunisian surged over the final 50 meters in a tremendous race Wednesday night at the Marine Messe Hall in Fukuoka to win in 7:37.00 in one of the best races of the meet.<\/p>\n<p>Short finished second in 7:37.76, an Oceania record. <strong>Bobby Finke<\/strong> rallied, as is his wont, but only for bronze in 7:38.67, lowering his American record. <strong>Daniel Wiffen<\/strong> of Ireland went 7:39.19 to finish off the podium in fourth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The silver in the 400, I think that\u2019s part of this win,&#8221; Hafnaoui said. &#8220;We were focusing the last day on just going as hard as I can on the last 50. In the prelims, I went like 26.5 in the last 50 and now I went 26.2. It was pretty close to each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/meet\/2023-world-aquatics-championships\">World Championships Meet Page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omegatiming.com\/2023\/world-aquatics-championships-sw-live-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live Results<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-day-three-prelims-sam-short-bolts-to-top-spot-in-800-freestyle-florian-wellbrock-locked-out-of-final\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Men&#8217;s 800 free prelims<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 800 free has become an event of global depth. Not only that, it&#8217;s one that is replenishing itself with new talent.<\/p>\n<p>So fast was prelims that several big names missed out on the final eight \u2013 among them, Budapest silver medalist and double Fukuoka open water gold medalist <strong>Florian Wellbrock.<\/strong> All three Tokyo medalists are accounted for \u2013 in order, Finke, <strong>Gregorio Paltrinieri<\/strong> and <strong>Mykhailo Romanchuk<\/strong>. They joined Wellbrock in the top four in Budapest last year, with <strong>Guilherme Costa<\/strong> fifth and Wiffen eighth.<\/p>\n<p>That group has pushed each other to their best. Last year\u2019s Worlds final included an American record for Finke (7:39.36) and national records for Wellbrock and Romanchuk to reach the podium, plus a South American record for Costa in fifth. By comparison, it took only 7:41.87, then an American record, for Finke to win gold in Tokyo. That time would&#8217;ve been a distant sixth Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s why the likes of Finke, Short and Wiffen, though not winners on the night, couldn&#8217;t be angry about the results.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This race has become quite insane the past couple of years,&#8221; Finke said. &#8220;\u2026 This race has gotten incredibly deep, and I think that\u2019s good for the sport. You can\u2019t just have one country or a couple of countries dominating everything and you can\u2019t say the sport is growing. If there\u2019s people from all these other countries like <strong>David Popovici<\/strong> in Romania and Ahmed Hafnaoui from Tunisia, that\u2019s incredible to have as a growing sport.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m stoked,&#8221; Short said. &#8220;It\u2019s what I\u2019ve grown up to be. I don\u2019t mind coming second, third or even worse as long as I\u2019m in the race and really push everyone and get some good times. I\u2019m loving every bit of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even Wiffen, who could be plenty aggrieved at his European record not finishing on the podium, can&#8217;t take too much umbrage at lopping five seconds off his personal best this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m obviously happy,&#8221; Wiffen said. &#8220;The 800 isn\u2019t my strongest this season, which I\u2019m surprised at because I took five seconds off my PB. Great swim, unlucky to get fourth but coming away with a time like that, I can\u2019t really complain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Short led the way in preliminaries with a time of 7:40.90, ahead of Hafnaoui, whom he touched out in the 400 free earlier in the week. The top four in that event \u2013 Short, Hafnaoui, <strong>Lukas Martens<\/strong> and Costa \u2013 all made the 800 free final.<\/p>\n<p>Martens was with the leading pack early but fell off just enough for Finke to get him. The German finished fifth in 7:39.48. Romanchuk was never a factor in sixth in 7:43.09. Costa and Paltrinieri rounded out the podium.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Hafnaoui is among those who are excited to see where this event can go in the next year ahead of the Paris Games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m so happy to jump a lot in my time,&#8221; he said. &#8220;\u2026 Bobby, he was one of the guys that pushed me to do that time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"533591\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/world-championships-night-4-ahmed-hafnaoui-gets-revenge-in-800-free\/m800freefinal\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/M800freefinal.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1047,817\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"M800freefinal\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;M800freefinal&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/M800freefinal-700x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/M800freefinal-1024x799.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-533591\" src=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/M800freefinal.jpg\" alt=\"M800freefinal\" width=\"650\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/M800freefinal.jpg 1047w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/M800freefinal-1024x799.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/M800freefinal-256x200.jpg 256w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/M800freefinal-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/M800freefinal-450x351.jpg 450w, https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/M800freefinal-533x416.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Championships, Night 4: Ahmed Hafnaoui Gets Revenge in &#8216;Insane&#8217; 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