Tokyo Olympian Danielle Hill picked
up her third and fourth national titles and set a new Irish Record and two
Championship Records as the Irish Open Swimming Championships continued in
Dublin today.
Hill, competing for Larne Swimming
Club, smashed through 55 seconds for the first time in tonight’s 100m Freestyle
Final touching in 54.87 and knocking almost half a second off the previous
record of 55.33 she had held for the past year. The 23-year-old also broke the
championship record of 55.06 held by three-time Olympic Champion Katinka Hosszu
since 2013.
Just an hour later, Hill went on to
set a new Championship Record in the 50m Butterfly, her time of 26.84 was a
personal best and her first-time sub 27 seconds.
Also continuing his record-breaking
form, 18-year-old Liam Custer, who set a 400m IM Irish Junior Record on
Tuesday, set another new standard in the 800m Freestyle to take the gold medal
in 8:06.17. The previous record was held by Tokyo Olympian Daniel Wiffen in
8:13.72 from 2019. Sunday’s Wells’ Custer also broke the Championship Record of
8:12.13 held by US swimmer Brendan Driscoll.
Dolphins Max McCusker, who broke the
50m Butterfly Irish Record yesterday, came close to the 100m record this
evening. McCusker was .11 off Brendan Hylands Irish record of 52.52 and
Championship Record of 52.62, winning gold in 52.63.
Both Niamh Coyne and Eoin Corby added
50m Breaststroke to their 100m Breaststroke Titles from earlier in the week.
Coyne clocked 32.37 while Corby won in 27.99.
Julia Knox won her first national
title in the 400m Individual Medley, the Banbridge swimmer touched in 4:52.43
ahead of Templeogue’s Molly Mayne (4:53.33) and Ards’ Amelia Kane (4:57.47).
Competition continues tomorrow through
to Saturday.
Press releases will be issued daily.
Day 3 Results
Women 400m IM Final: 1st J Knox
Banbridge 4:52.43 2nd M Mayne Templeogue 4:53.33 3rd A Kane Ards 4:57.47
Men 50m Breaststroke Final: 1st E
Corby National Centre Limerick 27.99 2nd D Greene National Centre Dublin 28.22
3rd U Cooke Tuam 28.73
Women 100m Freestyle Final: 1st D
Hill Larne 54.87 ISR MR 2nd V Catterson National Centre Ulster 55.41 3rd E
Riordan National Centre Dublin 56.61
Men 100m Butterfly Final: 1st M
McCusker Dolphin 52.63 MR 2nd P Johnston Ards 53.29 3rd E Bailey New Ross 54.76
Women 50m Breaststroke Final: 1st N
Coyne National Centre Dublin 32.37 2nd M Mayne Templeogue 32.71 3rd E Doyle
National Centre Limerick 32.82
Men 800m Freestyle Final: 1st L
Custer Sundays Well 8:06.17 IJR CR 2nd N Wiffen Larne 8:20.28 3rd J Fleming
Lisburn 8:30.77
Women 50m Butterfly Final: 1st D Hill
Larne 26.84 CR 2nd J Macdougald UCD 28.02 3rd K McCaw Larne 28.29
International Swimming Events Summer
2022
2022 LEN European Championships
(50m), Rome, Italy, August 11th – 17th
(Senior summer benchmark meet for
Republic of Ireland athletes)
Pre-selected athletes - Danielle
Hill, Mona McSharry, Ellen Walshe, Darragh Greene, Brendan Hyland, Finn
McGeever, Jack McMillan, Shane Ryan, Daniel Wiffen, Max McCusker, Niamh Coyne
Diving consideration standard met:
Clare Cryan, Ciara McGing
2022 Commonwealth Games in
Birmingham, England, July 29th – August 3rd
(Senior summer benchmark meet for
Northern Ireland athletes)
Pre-selected athletes – Danielle
Hill, Daniel Wiffen, Jack McMillan, Tanya Watson (Diving)
2022 FINA World Championships (50m)
in Budapest, Hungary, June 18th – July 3rd
(Used as preparation meet only for
swimming, athletes may not attend)
Pre-qualified athletes – Daniel Wiffen,
Jack McMillan, Mona McSharry. Ellen Walshe, Calum Bain, Shane Ryan, Danielle
Hill
Diving consideration standard met:
Clare Cryan, Ciara McGing
2022 World Para Swimming
Championships in Madeira, Portugal, June 18th – 22nd
Minimum Qualification Standard met:
Ellen Keane, Nicole Turner, Roisin NiRiain, Barry McClements, Amy Sheridan
2022 LEN European Junior
Championships in Otopeni, Romania, July 5th – 10th
(The junior summer benchmark meet for
athletes of this age banding)
Grace Hodgins, Liam Custer, Molly
Mayne, Ellie McCartney, Evan Bailey
2022 EOC European Youth Olympic
Festival in Banka Bystrica, Slovakia, July 25th – 29th
(The junior summer benchmark meet for
athletes of this age banding)
Grace Davison, Conor Fitzgerald
NOTE: The Open will be the final
opportunity for swimmers to post consideration times for this summer’s
international events including the World and European Championships, World Para
Swimming Championships, Commonwealth Games (Northern Ireland), World and
European Junior Championships and the European Youth Olympic Festival.
In 2019, we introduced the notion of
‘pre-validation’ for our blue-chip senior international meet of the season.
With COVID leaving us with a degree of uncertainty after Tokyo, we pre-selected
Olympic athletes for European Championships (Rome) and/or Commonwealth Games
(Birmingham), particularly as the World Championships in May at that time made
the calendar very congested. This World Championships in Fukuoka was
subsequently cancelled and then later re-instated by FINA in June in Budapest,
and as such will not be a benchmark meet for us this season. Athletes can add
themselves to the roster for Birmingham and Rome at this competition, and
indeed for Budapest if they wish to utilise it as a preparation meet for later
in the summer.
For accreditation for this event
please e-mail trishmayon@swimireland.ie
Issued by Swim Ireland, whose
Performance Programme is supported and funded by Sport Ireland & Sport
Northern Ireland
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