{"id":360986,"date":"2026-03-23T14:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360986\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T14:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:27:07","slug":"shortt-breaks-another-irish-record-to-win-silver-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/360986\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortt breaks another Irish record to win silver in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Shortt set a second Irish record at the Giant Open in Paris this weekend, lowering Shane Ryan\u2019s mark of 53.73 seconds in the 100m backstroke to earn a silver medal.<\/p>\n<p>Shortt, who set a new standard of 1:56.07 in the 200m backstroke on Saturday, hit the wall in 53.37 in the shorter event.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old had a previous best of 53.80 from the semi-finals at the World Junior Championships last August, where the Galway man went on to win gold.<\/p>\n<p>Also in action in Paris, Ellen Walshe claimed her third silver medal of the weekend, clocking 2:10.97 in the 200m individual medley.<\/p>\n<p>Ellie McCartney was fourth in the same final in 2:12.60, while Jack Cassin was seventh in the 100m butterfly in 53.32. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Shortt set a second Irish record at the Giant Open in Paris this weekend, lowering Shane Ryan\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-360986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360986","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=360986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}