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
FULL AQUATICS TEAM OFFICIALLY SELECTED FOR TEAM IRELAND AT PARIS 2024
The Olympic Federation of Ireland has officially selected the full aquatics team who will compete at the Olympic Games in Paris this summer. Twelve swimmers have been named, including three relay teams. Over the weekend it was good news also for diver Ciara McGing who confirmed her allocation spot in the Women’s 10m Platform. She [...]
DIVER JAKE PASSMORE OFFICIALLY SELECTED FOR PARIS
Team Ireland Diving Announcement The Olympic Federation of Ireland has officially confirmed that Jake Passmore will be competing for Team Ireland in the Men’s 3m Springboard at the Olympic Games in Paris this summer. The eighteen-year-old achieved his qualification based on his World Championship result in Doha in February where he placed 17th, improving from [...]
Early Swimming Siblings | 100 Year Moments
It was in water-polo, in 1924, that Ireland first made waves in an Olympic swimming pool and another men’s water polo team took part four years later when Irish swimming history was made. That was when the first two swimmers took part; William Broderick in 400m freestyle and Marquerite Dockrell in 100m freestyle. Broderick, from [...]
Dr. Jon Rudd | Team Behind The Team
There is surely a promising thesis subject in why Northern Englishmen seem to click so well when it comes to elite sports leadership in Ireland. Jack Charlton and Andy Farrell are two outstanding examples and another is Dr Jon Rudd, the Performance Director for Swim Ireland since 2017 and a very proud Yorkshire man from [...]
Performance Round Up – December
Catch up on the latest results of Team Ireland athletes throughout the month of December! Daniel Wiffen Smashes The Oldest Swimming World Record Ireland’s Daniel Wiffen had the swim of his life on Sunday, smashing the oldest World swimming record on the books in the 800m Freestyle Final at the European Aquatics Short Course Championships in Otopeni, Romania. Wiffen, [...]
Daniel Wiffen Smashes Oldest Swimming World Record
Daniel Wiffen Smashes Oldest World Swimming Record Ireland’s Daniel Wiffen had the swim of his life on Sunday, smashing the oldest World swimming record on the books in the 800m Freestyle Final at the European Aquatics Short Course Championships in Otopeni, Romania. Wiffen, the European Record (7:25.96) holder, took almost three seconds off Australian legend Grant Hackett’s 2008 time of 7:23.42, [...]