Ireland’s swimmers produced a strong final day of racing at the Sette Colli International in Rome, with Ellen Walshe leading the medal charge with a gold and silver double, while Mona McSharry secured a full set of podium finishes across the competition.<\/p>\n
Walshe delivered an impressive double to close out the weekend, winning gold in the 200m butterfly and silver in the 200m individual medley (IM), adding to the 400m IM silver she secured on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Templeogue swimmer topped the podium in the 200m butterfly in 2:08.02, her second-fastest time ever and just outside her Irish record of 2:07.48 set at the 2025 World Championships.<\/p>\n
Just an hour later, the 24-year-old was back in action in the 200m IM, claiming silver in 2:11.40, with the USA\u2019s Alex Walsh taking gold in 2:09.05.<\/p>\n
Mona McSharry completed a full set of medals in Rome with gold in the 200m breaststroke on Sunday, having already secured silver in the 100m breast stroke and bronze in the 50m breaststroke earlier in the meet.<\/p>\n
Turning second at the 150m mark, McSharry powered home in 37.68 to overtake the Netherlands\u2019 Tes Schouten (37.94), touching in 2:22.71, just 0.18 seconds ahead of Schouten\u2019s 2:22.89.<\/p>\n
John Shortt claimed silver in the men\u2019s 200m backstroke, his first medal of the weekend. The European and World Junior champion progressed from the heats in 1:59.68 and improved to 1:57.73 in the final. The event was won by Switzerland\u2019s Roman Mityukov in 1:57.32.<\/p>\n
In the final event of the programme, Olympic champion Daniel Wiffen placed sixth in the 1500m freestyle in 15:17.45 with Nathan Wiffen registering 15:56.86 in the same race.<\/p>\n
In the women\u2019s 200m backstroke, Grace Davison finished eighth in the A Final in 2:14.37, while Lottie Cullen secured third in the B Final in 2:15.08.<\/p>\n
National Centre Limerick\u2019s Evan Bailey also impressed, improving on his heats swim of 1:48.72 to clock 1:48.53 and place eighth in the 200m Freestyle final.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the day, Matthew Hamilton set a new Irish junior record in the 50m butterfly heats. The Lisburn swimmer broke his own mark of 24.43, set in January, with a time of 24.17.<\/p>\n
Focus now turns to the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow (24\u201329 July) and the European Aquatics Championships in Paris (10\u201316 August), with the Ireland team for the Para Swimming European Championships in Turkey due to be announced on 14 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland’s swimmers produced a strong final day of racing at the Sette Colli International in Rome, with Ellen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-523407","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\/523407","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=523407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}