Despite the fact that she set a brand new Irish document, Sligo’s Mona McSharry missed out on a medal on the World brief course swimming championships in Abu Dhabi.
he 21-year Tokyo Olympic finalists completed fourth within the 50m breaststroke last in 29.59 which lowered her Irish document of 29.65 which she set in yesterday’s semi-final. However it wasn’t enough to safe McSharry, who relies within the College of Tennessee within the US a spot on the rostrum.
The race was received in convincing style by 18-year-old Israeli Anastasia Gorbenko in 29.34. Sixteen-year-old Benedetta Pilato from Italy took silver in 29.50 whereas Sweden’s Sophie Hansson (29.55) was four-hundredths of a second sooner than McSharry within the battle for bronze.
Earlier, new world silver medallist Ellen Walshe set a brand new private finest within the heats of 200m butterfly on the World brief course championships in Abu Dhabi right this moment. She completed 14th total and didn’t advance to the ultimate.
She beat her earlier finest time of two:09.94 for the occasion in a 25m pool with a brand new pb of two:08.16. The 20-year-old Templeogue swimmer will likely be motion within the Etihad Area tomorrow within the heats of the 50m butterfly.
Jack McMillan and Jordan Sloan completed eleventh and twenty eighth within the 200m freestyle heats, clocking 1:43.13 and 1:46.50 respectively. Each could possibly be a part of the lads’s 4x200m freestyle relay crew on Sunday.
Danielle Hill’s second occasion on the championships was 100m freestyle, the place she swam 54.98 to complete thirty first in a stacked area. She doesn’t race tomorrow however will return on Sunday for 50m backstroke and on Monday for 50m freestyle.
Brendan Hyland additionally swam his second occasion of the Championships, swimming 51.79 to complete in thirty fifth in 100m butterfly.
Reflecting on Walshe’s silver medal efficiency and the crew’s profitable begin to the championships, Swim Eire’s Nationwide Efficiency Director Jon Rudd stated: “It was an distinctive day of racing for fairly quite a few the crew and to have a medal at a World championship from Ellen Walshe is nice in so many respects.
“It’s solely the second medal that Eire have ever received at a World championship. It’s the primary time we’ve received a medal at an Olympic occasion, and it’s the primary time {that a} feminine athlete has received a medal.
“All of these are nice issues not only for her, but in addition for Irish swimming. Again at residence, with Irish athletes within the second day of the Irish Nationwide brief course championships in Dublin proper now, we hope that the performances right here assist encourage them to some nice performances there too,” stated Rudd.