Mona McSharry
Swimming
BIOGRAPHY
A product of Ballyshannon Marlins SC, Mona was World junior champion at 100m breaststroke and European junior champion at 50/100m breaststroke in 2017, and won a senior European short-course (SC) bronze (50m breaststroke) in 2019. In 2021 she won a World SC bronze and became only the second Irish woman to make an Olympic final in Tokyo, finishing eighth in 100m breaststroke (1:06.94), and 20th in 200m (2:25.08). After a difficult 2022 she bounced back in 2023, making three finals at the World LC Championships in Japan and winning a golden hat-trick at the European U23s in Dublin. In 2024 she was fifth in 100m/200m breaststroke finals at World LC Championships in Doha, missing a 100m medal by just 0.5 of a second. In June she qualified for a second event in Paris by smashing her Irish 200m record by over two seconds with 2:22.49 at the Mel Zajac International in Vancouver. Mona qualified from the University of Tennessee in May with a degree in Kinesiology.
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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 [...]