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<\/p>\nIn doing so, Walshe made history by becoming the first Irish woman to win a European Short Course title.<\/p>\n
The Templeogue star, who won silver in the 200m individual medley final on Saturday night, recovered from a slow start to touch home first in a new personal best time of 2:03.24, ahead of Denmark\u2019s Helena Rosendahl Bach and Italy\u2019s Anita Gastaldi.<\/p>\n
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Ireland’s Ellen Walshe celebrates after winning gold in the women’s 200m butterfly final during day six of the European Short Course Swimming Championships at Lublin, Poland. Photo: Nikola Krstic\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it was going to be a big race with the girls tonight, it was a stacked field of fliers, so it was going to be about who had the better back end, you just have to hold on for the first 150m and then just try bring it home the last 50 and that\u2019s just what I did, I just kicked like hell,\u201d a delighted Walshe said after the race.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think you have to stick to your own process, which is so important to not race anyone else\u2019s race, I know the back end can be strong, the front end, it\u2019s definitely a weakness that I have, I need to get out quicker.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s something I\u2019m trying to work on it, but yeah, I probably need to be out a bit quicker with these girls and kind of help myself through the back end instead of like hurting so bad, but, yeah, it worked tonight, so it must work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite winning two golds at the European U23 Championships in Dublin in 2023, it was the first time Walshe stood on top of a podium and heard the national anthem.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think you got to enjoy these moments because they don\u2019t come very often and I guess to stand on the top of the podium, it doesn\u2019t come often,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s my first gold medal on the international stage; I guess you have to kind of enjoy the moment because it\u2019s over now. It\u2019s over very quick, but it was great to have the flag and see my parents in the stands.\u201d<\/p>\n
Walshe was back in the pool soon after for the women\u2019s 400m individual medley final where she finished seventh in a time of 4:38.51.<\/p>\n
It has proved to be a glittering week for Irish swimming with a haul of seven medals from the Poland event.<\/p>\n
Last Tuesday, Daniel Wiffen started Ireland\u2019s medal haul with bronze in the men\u2019s 400m freestyle final.<\/p>\n
John Shortt then claimed gold in the men\u2019s 200m backstroke final on Wednesday, before Wiffen stormed to a gold medal in the 1500m freestyle on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Later that evening, Evan Bailey won bronze in the men\u2019s 200m freestyle.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Walshe won silver in the 200m individual medley, while Wiffen claimed the bronze medal in the men\u2019s 800m freestyle.<\/p>\n
Earlier today, the Ireland men\u2019s team fell short in their bid to reach the 4x50m medley final with a fourth-place finish in a time of 1:35.18.<\/p>\n
On the team\u2019s performances this week, Walshe said: \u201cIt was absolutely savage, each and every one of them played a massive part in everyone\u2019s success this week, and I think we all got to kind of drive off that and just use it into the next season.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s extremely important to keep the energy really high in the team, obviously some results can be disappointing, but we\u2019ve got to use each other and feed off each other through this meet.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven heading into next week, like some people may be disappointed, but use the adrenaline that you are frustrated with and just bring it into next week and there\u2019ll be some savage results on the board next week.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, yeah, the team\u2019s in a great place, so I\u2019m super excited to see what we\u2019ve got this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In doing so, Walshe made history by becoming the first Irish woman to win a European Short Course…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-180216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-latest-news-ticker","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180216","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=180216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}