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
Distance swimmers crushing a workout always is humbling to watch
Mans got some janky flip turns
Seems he’s like a little to close to the wall every time?
Mans will still cook you
Great stuff Coleman!
So where did you end up eating pancakes??!! Bloomington has some outstanding places for food…
I felt for Marwan watching this because the gaps were way smaller than the time gaps being called out.
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
Coaching 75s from the middle of the pool like that sucks. Too much walking or yelling.
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
his pr is 14;10 for 1500 SCM so the man can flip turn
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.
He’s an individual Olympic gold medalist.
Yes, and Olympic gold medalist who apparently needs to fix his turns.
Thank you!!!
Some serious distance footage. I’m here for it.
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?
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.