Daniel Wiffen’s pool appeal earns him Irish Independent Sportstar of the Year award

The choices were so broad and the variety of selections reflected that after a week like no other ended with a record seven-medal haul before Ireland’s Paralympians followed up with some equally stellar performances.

Irish sport can get a little giddy about its place on the global stage but the daily achievements of that first week were on a scale like nothing before.

In the end, Daniel Wiffen’s gold-bronze double in La Defense Arena caught most imagination among the readership, earning him the Sportstar of the Year award.

The Armagh man (23) came good on the rich promise he had been showing for a year beforehand to power clear and set a new Olympic record of 7.38.19 for the 800m freestyle and claim gold in his less-favoured distance.

Confident and ambitious, he followed up days later with bronze in the 1,500-metre race which had been a…

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