Finn McGeever
Swimming
BIOGRAPHY
Finn grew up on the banks of Lough Derg and is a second-year student at the University of Limerick where he is part of Swim Ireland’s high performance squad. He caused a sensation when breaking the Irish 400m freestyle record at this year’s Nationals in April (3:52.83) and was part of the team who finished fifth and twice broke the Irish 4x200m freestyle record (to 7:12 flat) at this year’s European Championships in May
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