Ellen Walshe

Ellen won a silver in 100m butterfly at the 2015 European Youth Olympics and gold in 200m butterfly at the 2017 World School Games. In January 2020 she became the first Irish woman to break a minute for 100m butterfly with her 59:54 victory at the Flanders Cup and she lowered that to 59:32 at the Irish Olympic qualification meet in June 2021. At the same event she broke Grainne Murphy’s 2009 200m IM record in the heats (2:13.17) and lowered it to 2:12.02 in the final.