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Irish Times
10 hours ago
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- Irish Times
Ireland's Ellie McCartney wins gold at European Under-23 Championships
Ireland's Ellie McCartney won gold in the women's 200m individual medley at the European Under-23 Championships in Slovakia on Thursday night The 20-year-old from Enniskillen made it back-to-back wins for Irish swimmers in the event after Ellen Walshe won the inaugural edition in Dublin in 2023. Third after the butterfly and backstroke legs, McCartney surged through her favoured breaststroke leg in 37.41 to hold an almost two-second lead going into the freestyle leg, a lead she never relinquished. She won by 1.22 seconds in 2:12.50 over France's Bertille Cousson, smashing her previous PB of 2:14.09. That will see her considered for the Ireland team for World Aquatics Championships in Singapore as she dipped under the qualification time of 2:12.83. READ MORE McCartney will be back in action on Friday morning in the heats of the 100m breaststroke. Meanwhile, Mona McSharry swam a season's best 1:06.86 in the 100m breaststroke final to claim a silver medal at the prestigious Sette Colli meet in Rome. Britain's Angharad Evans took gold in 1:06.33.
The Irish Sun
2 days ago
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- The Irish Sun
Irish swimmers including Mona McSharry and Ellen Walshe set to star in Slovakia and Italy this weekend
TEAM Ireland swimmers will be in action in Samorin, Slovakia and Rome, Italy this week. A summer packed with international meets continues with the European U23 Swimming Championships and the Sette Colli International. 2 Mona McSharry will be looking to add to her already impressive medal collection 2 Ellen Walshe will be hoping to carry on her impressive form in Rome Both competitions will run from June 26-28. 2025 will be just the second edition of the European U23 Swimming Championships. Swim Ireland hosted the inaugural championship at the Sport Ireland Campus in 2023. Ireland topped the medal table with six golds from Mona McSharry (3 golds), Ellen Walshe (2 golds, 1 silver) and Read more on Irish Sport Nine athletes will compete for Ireland European Aquatics Under 23 Championships. This will form a final World Championships preparation meet for five athletes who are Singapore-bound, Cormac Rynn, Ellie McCartney, Eoin Corby, Evan Bailey and Jack Cassin. The remainder of the team, Brandon Biss, Lottie Cullen, Maria Godden and Oisin Tebite will focus on this Championships as the pinnacle point for their summer racing. In Rome, Paris Olympians Mona McSharry, Ellen Walshe and Tom Fannon will compete against some of the world's best Most read in Other Sports The Sette Colli International at the Foro Italico will be a final preparation meet for the trio ahead of Singapore. Eight of the nine swimmers in Samorin will be in action in heats on the opening day of competition. Inside Sarah Healy's life beyond athletics from impressive college degree to passion for travelling the globe Biss gets the team underway in the 200m Backstroke; Rynn and Bailey compete in the 200m Freestyle, while Cassin will swim the 100m Butterfly. Godden swims the 50m Backstroke, Corby the 50m Breaststroke and McCartney the 200m IM. Ireland will also enter the 4 x 100m Mixed Medley Relay. In Rome, Ellen Walshe will be confident heading into competition having The Dublin native finished top 10 in four races including a fifth place finish in both the 200m and 400m individual medley. Mona McSharry is also in flying form having qualified for the World Championships by winning the 100m breaststroke final at the Irish Championships in April. The Sligo native won Ireland's first medal of the Paris 2024 Olympics with her bronze medal in the 100m breaststroke. Tom Fannon also secured World Championships qualification in April with an impressive Championship Record 50m Freestyle of 21.78, well inside the required World Aquatics A time of 22.05 and was just outside his Irish Record of 21.74 from Paris.
The 42
15-05-2025
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- The 42
Wiffen and McSharry lead mix of proven and future Irish stars at World Championships
OLYMPIC CHAMPION DANIEL Wiffen and fellow Paris medallist Mona McSharry will lead a 12-person Swim Ireland squad at the World Aquatics Championships. A year on from a historic three-medal haul in France last summer, the pair will be in action in Singapore starting this July. Advertisement Wiffen's aim is to defend the 800 metre and 1500m Freestyle world titles that he won in Doha in 2024. The pair are joined by Olympic finalist Ellen Walshe, as well as Shane Ryan who won the men's 50m backstroke bronze medal at the World Short Course Championships in Budapest just before Christmas. The talented group will be aiming for semi-final and final appearances across eight days of competition. The next wave of Irish talent in the pool will also be on show, Jhn Shortt, Evan Bailey and Ellie McCartney joining last year's European champion Danielle Hill and Olympic semi-finalist Tom Fannon in Singapore.
BBC News
15-05-2025
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- BBC News
Wiffen leads 12-strong Ireland team for Worlds
Olympic champion Daniel Wiffen will headline Ireland's challenge at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore in Magheralin swimmer will bid to defend the 800m and 1500m freestyle world titles he won in Doha in spearheads a 12-strong Irish team that also includes women's 100m breaststroke Paris bronze medallist Mona year's European champion Danielle Hill and former Commonwealth Youth Games gold medallist Ellie McCartney are the other two athletes from Northern Ireland named in the 800m freestyle champion Wiffen, who is currently finalising his preparations at a training camp in Arizona, is expected to add the 400m freestyle to his programme as 23 year-old won the Irish National titles in all three events in World Aquatics Championships take place from 11 July to 3 August. McCartney to make Worlds debut Also at the Irish Nationals in April, McCartney produced the swim of her career so far to qualify for the World Championships in the 200m 20-year-old from Enniskillen set a huge personal best and championship record time of 2:24.35. As a junior McCartney had given notice of her potential at the 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games in Trinidad & Tobago, where she won two golds and a bronze, before winning a bronze at the European Junior Championships later that also narrowly missed the qualification time for Singapore in the 100m breaststroke as she chased McSharry all the way home in the final in Dublin, losing out by just one-tenth of a has twice finished fifth in the world championship final and will be looking to finally add a world medal to the Olympic has also been named in the squad for the European U23 Championships in Slovakia alongside fellow Ulster swimmer Lottie will also compete at the World University Games in Germany while 2024 Paris Olympian Grace Davison will compete in the European Junior Championships in Danielle Hill has been focusing on improvement in her freestyle this year but will be swimming the 100m backstroke in those also in the squad are Olympic semi-finalists Ellen Walshe and Tom Fannon. With the announcement last week that high performance director Jon Rudd is moving on to take up a similar role with Saudi Arabia, the squad will be looked after by Swim Ireland head of performance pathways and operations Andrew will also lead the Northern Ireland team at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
BBC News
15-04-2025
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- BBC News
NI's McCartney qualifies for World Championships
Ellie McCartney produced the swim of her career so far to qualify for the World Championships in Singapore in 20-year-old from Enniskillen stormed to victory in the 200m breaststroke semi-finals in a time of 2:24.35 which was huge personal best, a championship record and well inside the 'A' time for the worlds, set at 2: a junior McCartney had given notice of her potential at the 2023 Commonwealth Youth Games in Trinidad & Tobago when she won two golds and a bronze, before later that summer also winning a bronze at the European Junior Monday, she had chased Olympic bronze medallist Mona McSharry all the way home in the 100m breaststroke final, losing out by just one-tenth of a second. 'I've been aiming for that time' "I'm so excited to get that 'A' time on my first chance in a World Championship trials," said McCartney. "I've really been aiming for that time. Me and my coach, since the start of this year we knew it was doable, but I never thought I'd be that far under it."I don't like setting my expectations too high. I prefer to trust the process and I have days where I think I can do it, I have days where I'm like, what if I just miss out, but I just wanted to make sure I left everything in the pool and that's when I can be happy and to be this far under, it's mind-blowing for me."McCartney also has qualification times for the European under-23s, and the World University Games and she'll now have to plan out a summer with the worlds included, so it's likely she will have to choose only one of the first two joins Ulster swimmers Daniel Wiffen and Danielle Hill as well as Mona McSharry, Ellen Walshe, Tom Fannon and John Shortt as those with the consideration times for Ireland for the event in Singapore."It's been years since I've been able to race Mona and to be closer, I've never had that chance before and racing her is always such a privilege and seeing the likes of Jack McMillan, Daniel, Danielle and Mona all coming from similar routes, it's inspiring", she added."It's what makes me want to be better." Walshe smashes twice smashes Irish record Double Olympian Ellen Walshe, who set a new Irish record of 1:59.31 in the morning heats of the 200m freestyle, became the first Irishwoman under 1:59 as she clocked 1:58.88 in the Templeogue swimmer is still to compete in her main event, the 400m Individual Medley, where she is an Olympic Centre Ulster's Lottie Cullen claimed the 200m backstroke title. Cullen, already having achieved consideration times for the European U23 Championships and World University Games, completed the backstroke double, adding to the 100m gold she won on Sunday. Cullen touched in 2: and Nathan Wiffen lead the qualifiers for Wednesday's 1500m Freestyle final after the duo eased through the heats in 16:15.99 and 16:19.39 respectively.
