Barry Murphy was the first Irish swimmer in the pool at the London Olympics when he contested this morning’s heats of the 100m breaststroke but there was disappointment for the Dubliner as he exited the competition, finishing eighth. The 26-year-old’s time of 1:01.57 was his second-fastest ever in the event but it was not enough […]
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Ireland’s Chris Bryan came agonisingly close to Olympic qualification today at the FINA Open Water 10K Marathon in Setubal, Portugal. The Ennis swimmer finished in 15th position overall in 1:46:30.7 behind Hungarian Csaba Gercsak who also touched in 1:46:30.7. However, the Hungarian was placed ahead of Bryan in 14th place by a photo finish and
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Sycerika McMahon won a silver medal on the final day of competition at the European Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, yesterday. The Portaferry teenager completed the 50 metre breaststroke final in a time of 31.27 seconds – just missing out on gold by two-hundreths of a second. The race was won by the Cezch Republic’s Petra
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Congratulations to Irish swimmer Sycerika McMahon (17) who has qualified for the Olympics at the European Swimming Championships this morning in Debrecen, Hungary. Sycerika finished second in her heat, her time of 1:08.37 and is the third fastest qualified into the semi-final. Sycerika McMahon is joined in the semi-final by Fiona Doyle who finished
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Swim Ireland have announced their team for the 2012 European Senior Swimming Championships taking place in Debrecen, Hungary from 21-28 May. The seven strong squad will travel to the competition with hopes of achieving qualification for the summer Olympic Games in London, in their individual events as well as in the women’s 4x200m Freestyle relay
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Peter Bank’s High performance swimmers will be bidding for Olympic qualification at the National Swimming Championships which begin today at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin. In particular rising star Sycericka McMahon and Beijing Olympian Mel Nocher will aim to secure their spots at the London Games alongside Gráinne Murphy and Barry Murphy, who secured
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The spotlight will be on the Lagan Valley Leisureplex, Lisburn this weekend for the Irish National Short Course Swimming Championships, which take place from Friday 16 – Sunday 18 December. A total of 50 teams will be in action in Lisburn this weekend, including swimmers from Brazil and from the Netherlands as well as Irish
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Melanie Nocher has won a bronze medal at the European Short Course swimming championships at Szczecin in Poland. Nocher’s time of 2min 4.29secs set the second Irish record of the day by 0.71secs to give the Loughborough-based swimmer her first international medal.
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Just days after securing her place at the London 2012 Olympics Ireland’s Grainne Murphy returns to the pool tomorrow (Thursday) to compete at the European Short Course Swimming Championships in Szczecin, Poland. Ireland has sent a team of nine swimmers to the event with coaches Peter Banks and Ronald Claes. Murphy joins Olympians Melanie
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Irish swimming’s high performance director Peter Banks, will send 14 swimmers to two long course (50 metre) meets in December. No Irish swimmer made the standard at the recent World Swimming Championships in Shanghai, and Banks wants to give swimmers further opportunities to get under the Olympic-qualifying standard before Christmas. To date only Dubliner Barry Murphy has achieved the Olympic standard , back in
Ireland’s 4x200m freestyle women’s relay team of Sycerika McMahon, Melanie Nocher, Clare Dawson and Gráinne Murphy set a new Irish senior record early this morning in Shanghai at the World Swimming Championships, recording a time of 8:07.66 – an improvement of just under two seconds from the previous record mark set in 2007.
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It was a quiet day for the Irish camp today at the swimming World Championships with no Irish in action today. The team trained at the main competition pool this morning then relaxed at the team hotel before some headed back to the pool for a second swim in the afternoon. Other squads
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