Ireland’s Mona McSharry claimed a silver medal in the 100m breast stroke on the opening night of racing at the Sette Colli meet at the Foro Italico in Rome.<\/p>\n
McSharry is part of a 24-strong Irish team using the prestigious Italian meet as final preparation ahead of this summer\u2019s major championships: the Commonwealth Games in July and the European Championships in August.<\/p>\n
The Olympic bronze medallist progressed as top seed from the morning heats in 1:06.53 and went quicker in the final, touching in 1:06.30 to secure her first medal of the meet, just behind Italy\u2019s Benedetta Pilato (1:05.85).<\/p>\n
Tom Fannon missed the podium by just five hundredths of a second in the men\u2019s 50m freestyle final, finishing fourth in a season\u2019s best time of 21.95.<\/p>\n
There was also ‘A’ final action for Danielle Hill in the 50m back stroke, where she placed eighth in 28.72.<\/p>\n
In Friday\u2019s ‘B’ finals, John Shortt was first home in the 50m back stroke, touching in 25.23 seconds. In the women\u2019s equivalent, Lottie Cullen secured second place in 29.07.<\/p>\n
There were further runner-up finishes for Ellen Walshe in the 200m freestyle (1:59.18), Daniel Wiffen in the 400m freestyle (3:50.52), and Ellie McCartney in the 100m breast stroke (1:08.19).<\/p>\n
Competition continues on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland’s Mona McSharry claimed a silver medal in the 100m breast stroke on the opening night of racing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-520117","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\/520117","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=520117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}