Ellen Walshe
Swimming
BIOGRAPHY
Ellen won a 100m butterfly silver at the 2015 European Youth Olympics, gold in 200m butterfly at the 2017 World School Games and then two golds and a silver at the European U23s. She was only 19 on her Olympic debut in Tokyo where she was 19th in the 200m Individual Medley heats (2:13.34), and 24th in the 100m butterfly heats (59:35). She added silver at World SC Championships (2021), and bronze at the European SC in 2023; both in 400m IM. Ellen was the first Irish swimmer to qualify for Paris at the 2023 World LC Championships in Japan where her new Irish 200m IM record of 2:10.92 placed her ninth. She qualified for the 400m IM in Paris with an impressive 4:38.05 at the Irish trials in June and smashed that two weeks later with 4:37.18 in a stacked race at the Sette Colli International in Italy.
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SWIMMING NEWS
SWIMMERS DANIEL WIFFEN AND MONA MCSHARRY ANNOUNCED AS CLOSING CEREMONY FLAGBEARERS
Double Olympic medallist Daniel Wiffen, and Olympic bronze medallist Mona McSharry have been announced as the Team Ireland Flagbearers for the Closing Ceremony of Paris 2024 tomorrow night (Sunday). Olympic gold and bronze medallist Wiffen, and Olympic bronze medallist McSharry both reacted with immense pride on discovering they had been selected to carry the Irish [...]
DAY 13 MORNING REPORT FROM TEAM IRELAND
Team Ireland’s women’s 4x400m relay team have made yet more history at these Paris Olympic Games by becoming the first women’s relay team ever to make an Olympic final, qualifying with a third place finish in their heat. Hurdler Sarah Lavin and 800m athlete Mark English both ran really well placing sixth in their respective semi-finals but missed out on the [...]
DIFFICULT DAY AT LE GOLF NATIONAL FOR MAGUIRE AND MEADOW
Leona Maguire and Stephanie Meadow were back in action at Le Golf National in round two of the women’s singles today. Meadow carded a round of 74; four better than yesterday, but Maguire will be frustrated after signing for a round of 79 today. GOLF It was another unforgiving day for Stephanie Meadow and Leona [...]
DAY 11 MORNING REPORT FROM TEAM IRELAND
Team Ireland’s Shane Sweetnam with James Kann Cruz, and Daniel Coyle with Legacy, both missed out on the medal jump-off in the show jumping final at the Palace of Versailles this morning. Running a brilliant PB Sophie O’Sullivan narrowly missed out on qualifying for the 1500m semi-finals by just one spot, finishing 7th in her heat, [...]
Daniel Wiffen wins bronze in the Men’s 1500m Freestyle at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Team Ireland’s swimming superstar Daniel Wiffen has won an Olympic bronze medal in the 1500m Freestyle final this evening, to add to the gold he won on Tuesday. In doing so the Armagh swimmer has won Team Ireland’s seventh medal at these Olympic Games, and it is Ireland’s third bronze medal in Paris. This is [...]
2024 OLYMPIC GAMES – DAY6 EVENING REPORT FROM TEAM IRELAND
Twenty-one-year-old Sallynoggin heavyweight (92kg) Jack Marley, who made such an impressive Olympic debut last Sunday was beaten tonight by Davlat Boltaev of Tajikistan in the 92kg quarter-finals; 4-1. Earlier talented Bray flyweight Daina Moorehouse was bitterly disappointed to be on the wrong side of a 4-1 decision in favour of hometown fighter Wassila Lkhadiri of [...]