Irish
swimmers assault on the record books continued in Budapest on Friday morning
with two more records coming from Ellen Walshe in the 100m Butterfly and Eoin
Corby in the 200m Breaststroke, making it nine Irish Senior Records and one
Irish Junior Record across four days.
Walshe,
who has already set six new Irish Records in the 100m and 200m Individual
Medley and 50m Butterfly this week, continued her form with a new standard in
the fastest ever 100m Butterfly (SC) race in history as the USA’s Gretchen
Walsh set a new World Record of 53.24. The Templeogue swimmers time of 56.17
saw her second to Walsh and through to the semi-final in fifth place overall.
The
23-year-old’s previous record stood at 56.67 from 2023.
Speaking
after the race Walshe said ‘It’s amazing to be part of a heat like that, the
girls are so talented, and it will be a great semi tonight and maybe a final
tomorrow. I’m hurting today, my legs are pretty sore, but I’ve just got to tidy
up the small things and hopefully there’s a little bit more tonight, maybe a
55, who knows.’
National
Centre Limerick’s Eoin Corby set his first Irish Senior Record in the heats of
the 200m Breaststroke. Corby touched in 2:06.45 erasing Uiseann Cooke’s 2021
record of 2:06.81. The 22-year-old was sixth in his heat.
Commenting
after the race Corby said ‘I’m very happy, funnily enough I felt kind of weird
in the warm-up and I just kind of put that aside. I knew I was training well
coming into the competition so I just kind of focused on that, took that into
the race and tried to race some of the lads beside me and I got the Irish
Senior Record so I’m very happy with that.
Also, in
action this morning, Ellie McCartney swam her second-best time in the 200m
Breaststroke clocking 2:23.26. The National Centre Limerick swimmer, competing
at her first senior World Championships, was sixth in her heat, her only event
this week
‘I mean
I’m satisfied with it; I came here to race against the best in the World, I had
one swim, I had one chance, and I think I somewhat took advantage of it. I know
from last week (2:21.21 at Scottish Nationals), I can go two seconds faster,
but I need to be under that in the heats next time and that’s something I need
to learn to do.’
On Friday
evening, Ellen Walshe will be joined in action by Shane Ryan who swims the
Final of the 50m Backstroke having qualified eighth in 22.89 after Thursday’s
semi-finals.
Day 4
Heats Results – Friday 13th December
Female
200m Breaststroke
Ellie
McCartney
2:23.36
(17th)
Male 200m
Breaststroke
Eoin
Corby
2:06.45
(17th) ISR
Female
100m Butterfly
Ellen
Walshe
56.17
(5th) ISR
Day 4
Heats Schedule – Friday 13th December
Male 50m
Backstroke Final
Shane
Ryan
17.12 IRL
Female
100m Butterfly
Ellen
Walshe
17.20 IRL
Meet
Information
Dates:
10th – 15th December 2024
Times:
Heats 8am / Finals 4.30pm (Ireland)
Schedule:
Competition Schedule | World Aquatics Official
Results:
All World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m) Results By OMEGA
Live
Stream: Eurovision Sport | Aquatics
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