Irish Olympians Mona McSharry and Ellen Walshe are through to their respective finals on day three of the Irish Open Swimming Championships at the Aurora Centre in Bangor.<\/p>\n
McSharry, who already took gold in the 50m breaststroke, is the fastest qualifier into tonight’s 200m breaststroke final in a new championship record time of two minutes 23.03 seconds.<\/p>\n
Walshe, seeking her third medal of the meet, set a new Irish record in the heats of the 200m freestyle, recording a heat time of 1:58.72, which broke her own Irish best time by .16 of a second.<\/p>\n
The Templeogue swimmer will also contest the final of the 100m butterfly this evening.<\/p>\n
Paris 2024 gold medallist Daniel Wiffen is through to the final of the 200m in second place overall, behind Cormac Rynn of the National Centre in Limerick.<\/p>\n
John Shortt, who won the 100m backstroke on Thursday in a new Irish record time, is the fastest qualifier through to the 50m backstroke medal race, while Olympian Danielle Hill leads the qualifiers in the women’s race.<\/p>\n
The finals get under way at 5.30pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irish Olympians Mona McSharry and Ellen Walshe are through to their respective finals on day three of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-391995","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\/391995","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=391995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}