Swimming

February 2021

Ryan's sights are set firmly on Tokyo final

Five minutes after Shane Ryan left his kickboard at poolside it had turned into a block of ice. It was New Year's Eve in Philadelphia and the temperature was minus three.

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January 2021

Double Olympic gold medalist charged with role in deadly pro-Trump Capitol riots

Klete Keller, an American Olympic gold medalist, has been charged by the Justice Department over his role in last week's insurrection at the US Capitol.

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November 2020

Olympic diver Oliver Dingley reveals Covid worry for grandmother as he prepares for online tournament

Irish Olympic diver Oliver Dingley had revealed that his grandmother is battling Covid-19 in a nursing home in the UK.

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September 2020

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Paul Kimmage Opinion Gary O'Toole, his Olympic disappointment and the day I met George Gibney at the swimming pool

"And this young man down here . . . this is Gary is it? Gary O'Toole?"

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August 2020

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'You have to be very selfish sometimes - my kids would wave at me and I'd have tears welling up behind my goggles'

Dubliner Rachael Lee is a long-distance swimmer who holds the overall Irish record - for men and women - for crossing the English Channel.

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July 2020

'I had no human contact for three months' - Olympic swimmer Shane Ryan on coping with lockdown

Olympic swimmer Shane Ryan lived in solitary confinement in Tyrrelstown, west Dublin during the Covid-19 lockdown: "I had no human contact whatsoever for a full three months."

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April 2020

A back garden pool, swimming parachute and a bungee cord - How Dublin teenager is keeping Olympic dream alive

Long-distance swimmer Mia Whelan-O'Connor hopes to keep her Olympic dreams alive by using a back-garden plunge pool to maintain her training regime.

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Keane keeps focus on next year's Games and her fitness in lockdown

Irish Paralympic swimmer Ellen Keane has admitted to "breathing a sigh of relief" on hearing that the Tokyo Paralympics will now take place in 2021.

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December 2019

'I said I might as well give it my all' - Darragh Greene aiming to make a splash with Tokyo ticket

It was a gamble, and Darragh Greene knew it. He was 22 back then, halfway through his sports science degree at UCD, when the time felt right to move all-in with his talent.

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Record-breaking weekend finishes with Ryan bronze

Shane Ryan claimed bronze in the 50m backstroke at the European Short Course Swimming Championship in Glasgow last night, an event in which he also won bronze at the 2018 World Championships.

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Euro bronze joy for McSharry

Sligo sensation Mona McSharry set an Irish record when claiming bronze at the European Short Course Swimming Championships in Glasgow yesterday.

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September 2019

Kelly calls it quits in reaction to new system

Irish Paralympic swimmer Ailbhe Kelly will retire after her final race at the World Para-Swimming Championships in London today. Kelly is calling it a day because of the sport's controversial new classification system.

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July 2019

Greene needs history to keep repeating itself to keep his lifelong Olympic dream alive

For many Olympic hopefuls, the nagging self-doubt will generally focus on whether they can produce a time good enough to qualify for the main event.

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May 2019

Rising star Hyland driven by boxing success of cousins

Growing up surrounded by champion boxers, Brendan Hyland could so easily have gone down a different sporting path.

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O'Brien makes the pace to strike Community Games gold

Cathal O'Brien wants to be the next Henry Shefflin or wear Irish colours at the Olympics - and for a youngster accustomed to overcoming obstacles, the sky is the limit.

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Cryan aim to make historic splash in Tokyo

Considering Clare Cryan couldn't swim properly when she was first approached about taking up diving, she has certainly come a long way.

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Swim Ireland receive boost after securing sponsorship deal with Tesco

Swim Ireland have received a major boost with Tesco Ireland coming on board as title sponsors.

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April 2019

Ryan: I'm no 'Plastic Paddy', I want to put Irish swimming on map

He knows what they say, the critics tapping away on message boards under the cloak of anonymity. Shane Ryan has seen the comments from those who believe he's just a Plastic Paddy, using Ireland as a country of convenience.

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Sloan impresses to secure 200m freestyle spoils

Jordan Sloan powered his way to 200m freestyle gold at the Irish Open Championships in a time of 1:48.44, edging Jack McMillan at the National Aquatic Centre.

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March 2019

Greene sets new record on way to breaststroke gold

Darragh Greene set an event record at the Irish Open Championships to secure 100m breaststroke gold on an opening day that also delivered three national records.

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December 2018

Shane Ryan breaks another Irish record at World Championships but bows out in semi-finals

The Irish records continue to fall but Shane Ryan bowed out at the semi-final stage in today's 100m freestyle at the World Championships in China.

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Ryan: World bronze medal is not just for me, this is for everyone

Shane Ryan made history by claiming Ireland's first World Championship swimming medal as he took bronze in the 50m backstroke at the World Short Course Swimming Championships in Hangzhou, China.

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Ireland's Shane Ryan wins world bronze in 50m backstroke and lowers his Irish record for third swim in a row

Ireland's Shane Ryan has won bronze in the final of the 50m backstroke at the World Short Course Swimming Championships in China.

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Ryan targets backstroke medal after record-breaking semi-final

Shane Ryan will have high hopes of producing a good performance in the final of the 50m backstroke at the World Short Course Swimming Championships in China today after another record-breaking effort yesterday.

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Ireland's Shane Ryan through to 50m backstroke final at World Short Course Swimming Championships in China

Ireland's Shane Ryan will compete in the final of the 50m backstroke final at the World Short Course Swimming Championships in China after breaking the Irish record twice today.

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Hyland and Corcoran on Irish records trail in China

Irish swimmers continued their assault on the record books as the FINA World Short Course Championships got under way in Hangzhou, China.

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Corby storms to glory in 200m breaststroke as records tumble

Swim Ireland's Short Course National Championships concluded in Lisburn yesterday with a further four records set, bringing the total to 18 over the past four days.

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Two lawsuits filed against world swimming body FINA

Two lawsuits have been filed against FINA in California in a challenge of the perceived monopoly held by swimming's world governing body.

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Golden McSharry breaks De Bruin record

Mona McSharry continued her impressive form on Day 2 of the Irish Short Course (25m) Swimming Championships in Lisburn yesterday as the 18-year-old broke Michelle de Bruin's (née Smith) 1995 100m freestyle Irish record twice, having already broken the 50m freestyle record on Wednesday.

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October 2018

Coyne shows class to claim silver medal

There was unconfined joy for the Irish team at the Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires last night when Dublin swimmer Niamh Coyne claimed a silver medal.