Gráinne Murphy narrowly missed out on a place in the 1500m freestyle final early this morning at the World Long Course Swimming Championships after she placed 10th overall following the conclusion of the heats. The eighteen year-old distance freestyle and individual medley specialist won her own heat by a massive 8 seconds in 16:14.81 and […]
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Swimming is a hugely physical and demanding sport, with athletes competing over distances from 50m to 400m, with races lasting from 20 seconds to over four minutes in length. Swimmers need huge strength and stamina to power themselves through the water, as well as perfectly honed technique.
Events for the Olympic swimming programme are held in a 50-metre-long pool and include 26 individual and six team relay men’s and women’s events. These include freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and the individual medley style. The team events are the freestyle and the medley relay. For contact details of Swim Ireland please click on Full story
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Beijing bound Melanie Nocher recently selected into the Irish Olympic Team, along with Aisling Cooney, under a special agreement between the Olympic Council of Ireland and Swim Ireland, produced an A standard swim when she won the British Championship 200metre backstroke in Liverpool on Saturday, 12th July.
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Belfast's Melanie Nocher achieved a third PB, swimming a time of 2.02.04 in the 200m freestyle, at the World Swimming Championships in Melbourne, Australia.
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