Mona McSharry Leads World Aquatics Championships Team in Singapore

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 …

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Swim Ireland Announce Teams for Summer Internationals: 20 Selected for European Aquatics Championships

Swim Ireland have confirmed this week four teams who will travel into Europe to compete in the forthcoming European Aquatics Championships (both swimming and diving) in Belgrade, Serbia during June, the European Junior Swimming Championships in Vilnius, Lithuania during July and the European Junior Open Water Championships in Vienna, Austria, taking place the following week. With a team of 18 …

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Top 17 in the World for Clare Cryan

Photo by Ian MacNicol/Sportsfile Clare Cryan showed excellent form at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan today finishing seventeenth in the World, following the preliminary and semi-final rounds of the 3m Springboard. Cryan put on a brilliant display in this morning’s preliminaries, finishing in ninth place overall against a strong field of fifty divers. Scoring 289.55 from five dives, …

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McGing Bows Out of World Championships in Platform Preliminaries

Photo by David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile Ireland’s Ciara McGing has ended her World Championships in the preliminary stages of the 10M Platform in Fukuoka, Japan this morning. The 22-year-old completed the preliminaries on 244.90 in 28th place, her highest score coming for her opening dive, an inward 2 ½ somersaults with 56 points. Speaking after her event McGing commented “I’m obviously disappointed with …

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Mona McSharry And Clare Cryan Set New Irish Records

Mona McSharry and Clare Cryan have set impressive new Irish records while participating at international competitions this past weekend. McSharry competed at the Glasgow International Swim Meet (26-28 May 2023) where she set a new Irish Senior Record in the 200m Breaststroke on the final day of racing. She posted an impressive time of 2:24.50, to break her 2021 record …

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50-Year-Old Sets Freediving Record

Dubliner Nina McGowan, who turned 50 in May, dived 43 metres in 2 minutes and 10 seconds, setting a new world record at a pre-competition event ahead of the CMAS World Outdoor Freediving Championship. All freediving is performed without breathing apparatus but McGowan’s record was also set in the no-fin category. Amazingly, McGowan started freediving only three years ago after …

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Cryan Through to European 3M Final

Following an eleventh-place finish in the 1M Springboard on Tuesday, Clare Cryan returned to action in the Foro Italico this morning, this time for the 3M Springboard preliminaries. Cryan Through to European 3M Final @swimireland Following an eleventh-place finish in the 1M Springboard on Tuesday, Clare Cryan returned to action in the Foro Italico this morning, this time for the …

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