Shane Ryan

Shane Ryan

Swimming

BIOGRAPHY

Shane, whose father hails from Portarlington, is Ireland’s first male three-time Olympic swimmer, starting with a semi-final appearance in 100m backstroke in Rio 2016. He has won four international medals in the non-Olympic 50m backstroke event; a World University Games champion in 2017, and a bronze medallist in both European long and short course in 2018, and also in the 2019 European SC Championship. He is the Irish senior record holder in 50m/100m backstroke, and the 50m/100m freestyle, setting both of the latter this year, including the new 50m freestyle record of 21:82 which he set in the heats of the European Championships in June when finishing eighth.

Gender

Male

Discipline

4x100m Medley Relay

Personal Best

53.73 (2019) and 52:94 (2020)

Date Of Birth

January 27, 1994

Hometown

Pennsylvania USA/ Irish hometown: Portarlington

OTHER SWIMMING ATHLETES

Erin Riordan

Max McCusker

Conor Ferguson

Tom Fannon

Grace Davison

Victoria Catterson

Ellen Walshe

Daniel Wiffen

Danielle Hill

Finn McGeever

Darragh Greene

Brendan Hyland

Jack McMillan

Mona McSharry

SWIMMING NEWS

Nominations For RTE Sportsperson of the Year

Next Sunday evening, December 15th at 9:30 pm, the RTÉ Sport Awards 2024 will air live on RTÉ One and the RTÉ Player. Hosted by Joanne Cantwell, Darragh Maloney, and Jacqui Hurley from Studio 4 in RTÉ, the event will celebrate Irish sporting excellence in front of an audience filled with the nation’s top athletes. [...]

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 [...]

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