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Practice + Pancakes: Olympic Champion Ahmed Hafnaoui Crushes 22×75 @ Mile Pace

While filming at Indiana University, SwimSwam got to see 2020 Olympic Champion in the 400 free Ahmed Hafnaoui in action during a Monday afternoon Mile set. Hafnaoui is training at Indiana this year even though he won’t be eligible to compete in the NCAA until the 2023-24 season. During this practice, he lined up against 2020 Egyptian Olympian Marwan El Kamash and NCAA All-American Mikey Calvill0. Their main set, led by assistant coach Luke Ryan, was as follows:

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  • 300 Pink (Negative split) 3:15
  • 6×75 Mile Pace 1:00
  • 150 Mile Pace 2:00
  • 300 Pink 3:30
  • 300 (Negative split) 3:15
  • 5×75 Mile Pace 1:00
  • 150 Finish the Mile 2:00
  • 75 EZ

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Young MC
1 year ago

Distance swimmers crushing a workout always is humbling to watch

Jonathan Charbroiled Steak
1 year ago

Mans got some janky flip turns

Unknown Swammer
Reply to  Jonathan Charbroiled Steak
1 year ago

Seems he’s like a little to close to the wall every time?

Athlete
Reply to  Jonathan Charbroiled Steak
1 year ago

Mans will still cook you

James Beam
1 year ago

Great stuff Coleman!

So where did you end up eating pancakes??!! Bloomington has some outstanding places for food…

PK Doesn't Like His Long Name
1 year ago

I felt for Marwan watching this because the gaps were way smaller than the time gaps being called out.

mclovin
Reply to  PK Doesn't Like His Long Name
1 year ago

I think most of the times Marwan and Ahmed were being called the same time and the big gap was the one with the third guy (who was swimming really fast as well). Coach only called diferent times when the gap was at least 0,5s

MCH
1 year ago

Coaching 75s from the middle of the pool like that sucks. Too much walking or yelling.

B1Guy!
1 year ago

Gotta clean up those flip turns and get more speed coming out of the walls to save some energy on the surface. Either way he’s gonna be a heck of a race for the distance crew at NCAA’s in ’24

homey looking skinny
Reply to  B1Guy!
1 year ago

his pr is 14;10 for 1500 SCM so the man can flip turn

B1Guy!
Reply to  homey looking skinny
1 year ago

Ya’ll must not have watched the actual video cause he starts to rotate halfway through his turns to get onto his stomach and loses some speed and comes off the wall pretty shallow, but hey not everyone actually reads and watches the content it’s cool.

Marmot
Reply to  B1Guy!
1 year ago

He’s an individual Olympic gold medalist.

IU Swammer
Reply to  Marmot
1 year ago

Yes, and Olympic gold medalist who apparently needs to fix his turns.

Super Soaker 50
1 year ago

Thank you!!!

Some serious distance footage. I’m here for it.

Ghost
1 year ago

Coleman, did you ask why he isn’t eligible? He didn’t go to Worlds and still after fall he wont be eligible?!?! Is he taking HS classes in Bloomington?

Admin
Reply to  Ghost
1 year ago

That was already discussed in another article. That other article is linked above, but in case you missed it: https://staging.swimswam.com/indianas-olympic-champion-ahmed-hafnaoui-ruled-ineligible-for-2022-23-season/

I don’t believe that you can just do a semester as a partial qualifier via initial eligibility rules. I think it requires a full year in residence, regardless of whether you show up and get perfect scores in all your classes in the fall. But someone will definitely correct me if I’m wrong.

About Coleman Hodges

Coleman Hodges

Coleman started his journey in the water at age 1, and although he actually has no memory of that, something must have stuck. A Missouri native, he joined the Columbia Swim Club at age 9, where he is still remembered for his stylish dragon swim trunks. After giving up on …

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