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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Swim Ireland’s “Best Five Days This Island Has Ever Seen”
Swim Ireland’s Irish Open Championships and Olympic Trials concluded on Sunday evening with five individuals now having secured Olympic Qualification Times across nine events. This week, Danielle Hill and Tom Fannon joined Daniel Wiffen, Ellen Walshe and Mona McSharry as individual qualifiers. Ireland have also qualified a Women’s and a Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay with selection to be confirmed in …
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Ellen Walshe secures second Olympic qualification with 400m IM
Ellen Walshe starred on the final morning of swimming at the Irish Open Championships and Olympic Trials as the Templeogue swimmer secured a second Olympic Qualification Time in the 400m Individual Medley. Walshe, already qualified for the Games in the 200m Individual Medley, swam an impressive 4:38.05 in the 400m IM, just one tenth of a second outside the Irish …
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Danielle Hill confirmed Ireland’s fastest woman with new 50m free record
The penultimate morning of Swim Ireland’s Irish Open Championships and Olympic Trials saw Danielle Hill blaze through the NAC pool to cement her status as Ireland’s fastest ever woman. Larne swimmer Hill stopped the clock on 24.95 in the 50m free heat, dipping under the 25-second mark for the first time and setting a new Irish and Championship Record. Hill’s …
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Shortt and Walshe Highlight Friday’s Irish Open Heats
Swim Ireland’s Irish Open Championships and Olympic Trials continued at the Sport Ireland National Aquatic Centre this morning with John Shortt and Ellen Walshe highlighting the preliminary rounds. National Centre Limerick’s Shortt looked impressive in the heats of the 200m Backstroke. The 17-year-old was just half a second outside his Irish Record of 1:58.47 touching in 1:59.03. Shortt enters Friday’s …
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Ireland’s Top Swimmers Target Olympic Qualification at Open Championships
Swim Ireland’s 2024 Irish Open Swimming Championships and Olympic Trials start on Wednesday 22nd May at the Sport Ireland National Aquatic Centre in Dublin. The 5-day event will see over three hundred swimmers from sixty clubs compete for National titles in thirty-four individual events and for places on three senior National Teams, including the European Aquatics Championships (50m) in June, …
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Ellen Walshe smashes 28-year-old 400m IM Irish Record
Ellen Walshe smashed a 28-year-old Irish record at the Leinster Championships on Saturday. The 22-year-old Templeogue swimmer finished the 400m Individual Medley in 4:37.94, over a second faster than the previous record of 4:39.18, set by Michelle Smith at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics where she won gold in the event. Walshe is already qualified for the Olympics in the 200m …
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Ní Riain and Turner add two bronzes to Ireland’s European Championships Haul
Roisin Ní Riain and Nicole Turner both added bronzes to Ireland”s medal haul at the Madeira 2024 Para Swimming European Open Championships while they, Ellen Keane, and Dearbhaile Brady all compete in further finals today (April 27). Roisin Ní Riain started off Friday evening in style, adding a bronze medal to her collection. A time of 4:44.62 secured the Limerick …
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Ní Riain Strikes Gold for the Second Time at European Championships with “a pretty good swim”
Róisín Ní Riain stormed to victory in her final yesterday evening to claim her second gold medal of the European Championships in the 100m backstroke final. In a stacked race that featured the Paralympic champion Ní Riain held her own to take the top spot in Madeira. This brings her medal tally to three so far in this championships, with …
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100m Butterfly Silver for Roisin Ni Riain at European Championships
Róisín Ní Riain was the first of the Irish swimmers to get on the podium claiming the silver spot in her first final of the week, the 100m butterfly, at the Para Swimming European Championships in Madeira, Portugal. In a swim that was again agonisingly close to her personal best of 01:06:00 the Limerick swimmer finished the final in a …
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