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The 42
01-08-2025
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- The 42
Ireland's Ellie McCartney finishes seventh in World Aquatics Championships final
Swimming Ireland's Ellie McCartney finishes seventh in World Aquatics Championships final The 20-year-old was competing in her first world final in the 200m Breaststroke.
Yahoo
01-08-2025
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- Yahoo
McCartney seventh in final on debut at Worlds
Ellie McCartney said the World Championships have been "an incredible experience" after she finished in seventh place in the 200m breaststroke final. The 20-year-old, from Enniskillen in Northern Ireland, was competing at her first World Championships in Singapore. McCartney reached the final with a personal best time of 2:23.79 to reach Friday's final. She could not replicate that time in the final but her swim of 2:25.22 was good enough for seventh place. "I don't have high expectations coming into the final, at the start of this year all I wanted to do is qualify for the World Championships," said McCartney after her final swim. "This year, as the season progressed, we had to keep on moving that target, and I never thought it would be a final." European Under-23 champion McCartney said she would learn from the final and take it into future competitions. "Tonight's swim may not have been the fastest I've ever been, but I came into this meet seeded eighteenth and I finished seventh. "So the progression is what it is I'll take a learning from this time and hopefully apply it to future competitions." Olympic bronze medallist Mona McSharry will swim in the 50m breatstroke on Saturday, while Danielle Hill is in action in the 50m freestyle. On Friday, Olympic gold medallist Jack McMillan, from Northern Ireland, helped Team GB to a gold medal in the men's 4x200m relay.
BBC News
01-08-2025
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- BBC News
McCartney seventh in final on debut at Worlds
Ellie McCartney said the World Championships have been "an incredible experience" after she finished in seventh place in the 200m breaststroke 20-year-old, from Enniskillen in Northern Ireland, was competing at her first World Championships in reached the final with a personal best time of 2:23.79 to reach Friday's could not replicate that time in the final but her swim of 2:25.22 was good enough for seventh place. "I don't have high expectations coming into the final, at the start of this year all I wanted to do is qualify for the World Championships," said McCartney after her final swim. "This year, as the season progressed, we had to keep on moving that target, and I never thought it would be a final."European Under-23 champion McCartney said she would learn from the final and take it into future competitions. "Tonight's swim may not have been the fastest I've ever been, but I came into this meet seeded eighteenth and I finished seventh."So the progression is what it is I'll take a learning from this time and hopefully apply it to future competitions."Olympic bronze medallist Mona McSharry will swim in the 50m breatstroke on Saturday, while Danielle Hill is in action in the 50m Friday, Olympic gold medallist Jack McMillan, from Northern Ireland, helped Team GB to a gold medal in the men's 4x200m relay.
Irish Examiner
01-08-2025
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- Irish Examiner
Seventh place finish for Ellie McCartney at the World Championships
Ellie McCartney took her place amongst the World's best with a seventh-place finish in the 200m Breaststroke final while Tom Fannon came agonisingly close to making the 50m Freestyle final at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore on Friday. McCartney, who swam a lifetime best 2:23.79 in Thursday's semi-final of the 200m Breaststroke, clocked 2:25.22, matching her heat swim and fifth fastest time ever, to close out her first World Championships (LC). The 20-year-old, who swims at National Centre Limerick, came into the meet ranked 18th and will take huge confidence from making the final on her debut. The Enniskillen woman said after the race "It's an incredible experience, you know, I don't have high expectations coming into the final, at the start of this year all I wanted to do is qualify for the world champs, so, constantly this year, as the season progressed, we had to keep on moving that target, and I never thought it would be a final, but we' re here now, I have now swum a world long course final, it's something not many people have done." She added "I mean tonight's swim may not have been the fastest I've ever been, but I came into this meet seeded eighteenth and I finished seventh, so, progression is what it is, and just moving forward through each of the rounds and, you know, I'll take a learning from this time and hopefully apply it to future competitions." Tom Fannon was just four hundredths of a second from making the 50m Freestyle final as he clocked 21.81 in the semi-final. The National Centre Dublin swimmer, who owns the Irish Record in the event at 21.74 from the Paris 2024 semi-final, was faster than his heat swim of 21.87 to place seventh in his semi-final and 12th overall. The eighth and last place in the final will require a swim off with two swimmers clocking 21.77 while Australia's Cameron McEvoy progresses as the fastest seed in 21.30. Speaking after the race Fannon said "I'm obviously annoyed, I think any athlete would be. If I was again, like, if I just didn't make certain mistakes, then I would be back in the final. "I think, no, I don't even think, I know that I'm in the best shape I've ever been, I'm swimming the fastest I've ever been, so, it's just trying to put that all together. Sometimes it's just not your day. If I did that again tomorrow, it would be quicker. So, like, it's just bittersweet." On Saturday, the penultimate day of racing in Singapore, 50m Backstroke semi-finalist Danielle Hill returns for the 50m Freestyle, 100m Breaststroke semi-finalist Mona McSharry is back for the 50m Breaststroke and Shane Ryan, who competed in the 50m Butterfly on the opening day of racing goes in the 50m Backstroke.
BBC News
31-07-2025
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- BBC News
McCartney through to World semi-final
Ellie McCartney qualified for Thursday's semi-finals of the women's 200m breaststroke at the World Aquatics Championships in 20-year-old from Enniskillen came third in her heat in 2 minutes 25.22 seconds to secure a place in the semi-final at 12:45 BST, sealing eighth place the European under-23 champion, produced a personal best of 2:24.02 at the Irish trials in April and feels her best performances come in the evening, so was "over the moon" with her performance on Thursday morning."I dropped a lot of time in the 200 breast (stroke) this year and made it my main event," she said."Being able to come here, having had two A-standard times is something I take pride of. To progress to the semi-final is a happy ending after a long summer."There was a lot of success, but a lot of room to work on. I know heat swims aren't my strongest as all my PBs come from an evening swim."Also through to a semi-final is John Shortt as the 18-year-old from Galway produced his second-best time of 1:56.98 in the 200m backstroke to come in fourth in his heat and 14th overall. He will race at 13:31 BST on Walshe is the first of three Irish in action during the evening session as she swims in the 200m butterfly Danielle Hill posted a time of 56.59 seconds in the 100m freestyle to finish outside the semi-final places and will now set her sights on the 50m event on the men's 200m breaststroke, Limerick's Eoin Corby clocked 2:11.84, but was five spots outside the semi-final McSharry did not swim the 200m breaststroke but will compete in Saturday's 50m breaststroke.
