Mona McSharry
Swimming
BIOGRAPHY
Mona McSharry is an Olympic bronze medalist from Paris 2024. A two-time Olympian, at Tokyo 2020 she reached the final of the 100-meter breaststroke, finishing eighth with a time of 1:06.94, and placed 20th in the 200-meter breaststroke (2:25.08).
McSharry’s career highlights include winning the World Junior Championship in the 100-meter breaststroke and European Junior Championships in both the 50-metre and 100-metre breaststroke in 2017. She also earned a bronze medal in the 50-metre breaststroke at the 2019 European Short Course Championships.
In 2021, she secured a bronze medal at the World Short Course Championships in the 100-metre breaststroke.
In 2023, McSharry made three finals at the World Long Course Championships in Japan and clinched a golden hat-trick at the European U23 Championships in Dublin. She continued her impressive form in 2024, finishing fifth in both the 100-metre and 200-metre breaststroke finals at the World Long Course Championships in Doha.
In June of the same year, she shattered her own Irish 200-meter breaststroke record by over two seconds, recording a time of 2:22.49.
McSharry graduated from the University of Tennessee in May 2024 with a degree in Kinesiology.
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