Ireland’s Olympic bronze medallist Mona McSharry will spearhead Swim Ireland’s 13-strong swimming and diving team into the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore exactly one year after the Paris Games.
Swimming and Diving at the World Aquatics Championships run from July 27th to August 3rd at the Singapore Sports Hub in Kallang, Singapore. The team have spent a week on a training camp in Kuching, Malaysia, ahead of their arrival in Singapore on Wednesday.
Four of Ireland’s strongest female athletes will be participating in the championships; McSharry, Olympic Finalist Ellen Walshe and Olympic Semi-Finalist Danielle Hill will be joined by recently crowned European U23 Champion Ellie McCartney.
Speaking on the expectations of the team ahead of the opening day of competition, Team Leader and Coach John Szaranek said,
‘Expectations are that everyone is here, everyone’s in good form and everyone’s looking forward to racing, so, they’ve a great opportunity to showcase their talents on the World stage. For some this will be their first ever exposure to this level of meet, it’s all about experience, about seizing the moment, doing what they can when they stand up on the blocks and if they can perform at their best level, then we’ve got a chance to make some progressions. It’s going to be really difficult, we expect them to have to swim as fast as they possibly can in the mornings and then we take it from there.’
On Sunday, the opening day of the competition, Ellen Walshe will be joined by World (LC) debutant Ellie McCartney in the 200m Individual Medley.