The Templeogue star clocked 2:06.63 to win her semi-final, slicing almost three seconds off her heat time. She heads into Saturday\u2019s showdown ranked third, just 0.21 seconds behind Britain\u2019s Freya Colbert and Katie Shanahan.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just looking for the top two to put myself in a nice position for tomorrow night\u2026 it\u2019ll be a good fight,\u201d Walshe said, adding that she\u2019s excited for her main events, including the 200m Butterfly.<\/p>\n
Ellie McCartney finished fifth in the 200m Breaststroke Final in 2:19.90. The 20-year-old had entered as top seed after a 2:18.81 semi-final but admitted disappointment: \u201cMy semi-final time would have got me a medal\u2026 I know I have more in me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gold went to Germany\u2019s Anna Elendt (2:18.16), silver to Britain\u2019s Angharad Evans (2:18.90), and bronze to Lithuania\u2019s Kotryna Teterevkova (2:19.30).<\/p>\n
Fresh from his 200m backstroke title, John Shortt placed seventh in the 100m backstroke final, lowering his Irish record to 50.10.<\/p>\n
The 18-year-old has set a world junior record, European junior record, Championship record, and ten Irish records in four days.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d have liked to be under 50, but it\u2019s been a massive week\u2026 I\u2019ll give that record another crack at Irish Championships,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Italy\u2019s Thomas Ceccon took gold in 49.29, ahead of France\u2019s Mewen Tomac (49.46) and Britain\u2019s Oliver Morgan (49.68). Shortt returns on Saturday for the 50m backstroke heats.<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s action includes Eoin Corby and Adam Bradley in the 50m breaststroke, Rosalie Phelan in the women\u2019s 50m freestyle, and Jack Cassin in the 200m butterfly.<\/p>\n
The event in Poland finishes on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in Texas, Mona McSharry qualified second for the 100m breaststroke final at the Toyota US Open in a time of 1:07.07.<\/p>\n
Day 5 Schedule \u2013 Saturday December 6<\/p>\n
Men 50m Backstroke: John Shortt<\/p>\n
Men 50m Breaststroke: Eoin Corby, Adam Bradley<\/p>\n
Women 50m Freestyle: Rosalie Phelan<\/p>\n
Men 50m Freestyle: Evan Bailey, Matthew Hamilton, Adam Bradley, Cormac Rynn<\/p>\n
Women 200m IM: Ellen Walshe<\/p>\n
Women 200m Butterfly: Ellen Walshe<\/p>\n
Men 200m Butterfly: Jack Cassin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Templeogue star clocked 2:06.63 to win her semi-final, slicing almost three seconds off her heat time. She…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-177327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}