Fiona Doyle has finished 14th overall in the 50m Breaststroke semi-final at the World Swimming Championships in Barcelona. The 21 year old was unable to better her Irish Record of 30.93 set earlier today, finishing 7th in her semi-final 2 in 31.52 seconds. Speaking after the event Doyle said “It would have been nice […]
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Fiona Doyle was also in action this morning, the 21 year old who finished 11th overall in the 100m Breaststroke earlier this week, finished just outside her Irish 200m Breaststroke Record of 2:30.21 in a time of 2:30.49 to secure a top 20 place in the World. “20th is a lot better than I thought
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Ireland’s Barry Murphy is through to the semi-finals of the 50m Breaststroke at the World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Spain. Murphy swam a season’s best time of 27.52 in this mornings fastest heat at the Palau Sant Jordi, finishing 6th and securing a spot in the semi-final that will take place at 5.18pm this
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Ireland’s Fiona Doyle is through to the semi-final of the 100m Breaststroke at the FINA World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Spain. Swimming in heat 5 of this mornings preliminaries, Doyle put in a morning’s best performance of 1:07.88 to finish 4th in the heat and 12th overall qualifying comfortably for the semi-final at 5.29pm this
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Ireland’s Chris Bryan has finished 16th at the FINA Open Water 10K World Championships in Barcelona. Bryan made a good start quickly settling into the leading pack of 25 of the 65 swimmers, finishing the first lap of the 2.5 Kilometre course in 15th place just 8 seconds behind the leader. The Clare man
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Niamh Kilgallen was 9th overall in the semi-final of the 100m Breaststroke just missing out on the Final. Kilgallen, from Claremorris Swimming Club, took 1.5 seconds off her morning heat swim to finish in 1:13.69. Emma Reid also posted a faster time in the semi-final of the 100m Butterfly, clocking 1:04.78 whilst Benjamin Doyle placed
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Ireland’s young swimmers got off to a flying start on Day 1 of the European Youth Olympic Festival in Utrecht, Holland, with three of Ireland’s six representatives in action at the Swimming Pool De Krommerijn. Rachel Bethel was first off the mark with a 10th place finish overall in the heats of the 100m
Doyle Qualifies for 50m Breaststroke Final at World University Games 15th July 2013 Fiona Doyle will contest her second final of the World University Games in Kazan, Russia following a third place finish in her 50m Breaststroke semi-final. Doyle, who won a Silver medal in the 100m Breaststroke on Friday last, will enter
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Swim Ireland has announced today that Chris Bryan, Fiona Doyle, Sycerika McMahon and Barry Murphy will all represent Ireland at the FINA Swimming World Championships in Barcelona Spain from the 20th July – 4th August 2013. Chris Bryan will be the first of the Irish to compete when he swims the 10K Open Water
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Ireland’s Chris Bryan began his World Championship preparations with intent as he was the first man home at the Portugal Open Water Nationals today. As a qualifier for the home nation and for British Open Water Swimmers, a strong field of 43 swimmers started the race. Bryan started strong keeping with the leaders throughout
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Barry Murphy will lead an 18 strong team of swimmers at the Celtic Tri Nations Meet this weekend. The annual event pits top swimmers from Ireland, Scotland and Wales against each other with the 3 Nations all vying for the Celtic Tri Nations Championship Title. The event will be hosted by Scotland in 2013 running
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Sycerika McMahon who confirmed that she will be heading to Texas next year on a scholarship, kicked off the final day of action at the Carlton Irish National Swimming Championships putting a sixth national title to her name. McMahon (2:15.60) finished behind Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu (2:11.84) in the Women’s 200m Individual Medley but picked up
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