Irish swim team to return home this evening with two World bronze medals
The six strong Irish swim team return home this evening from the Paralympic Swimming World Championships in Glasgow with two bronze medals, won by Darragh McDonald in the 400m Freestyle on Monday last, and Ellen Keane in the 200m Individual Medley last night. The team return to Dublin Airport on flight EI3227, due to arrive […]
Bronze for Ellen Keane on final day of Paralympic Swimming World Championships
Ellen Keane ensured the Irish team finished the Paralympic Swimming World Championships on a real high tonight setting a new lifetime best to win bronze in the 200m Individual Medley final (SM9). Nicole Turner and James Scully both set new lifetime bests finishing seventh and eighth in their respective finals.
Three Irish swimmers into finals at Paralympic Swimming World Championships
On the closing day of competition at the Paralympic Swimming World Championships in Glasgow three of Ireland’s four swimmers in action have qualified for finals in their respective events. Nicole Turner, Ellen Keane and James Scully will all be racing tonight, with Keane and Turner setting new lifetime bests in their heats.
New lifetime best for Ailbhe Kelly in final at Paralympic Swimming World Championships
On the penultimate day of competition at the Paralympic Swimming World Championships in Glasgow this evening Ireland’s Ailbhe Kelly set a new lifetime best of 1:27.24 finishing eighth in the final of the S8 Women’s 100m Backstroke.
Ailbhe Kelly through to final at Paralympic Swimming World Championships
On the penultimate day of competition at the Paralympic Swimming World Championships in Glasgow this morning there were just two Irish swimmers in action. Sixteen year old Ailbhe Kelly swam impressively to place fifth in her S8 100m Backstroke heat and qualify for her first world championship final at 6.58pm this evening. Kelly, who is […]
Two more lifetime best swims from Turner and Scully in finals at Paralympic Swimming World Championships
All three Irish swimmers in action at the Paralympic Swimming World Championships in Glasgow this evening finished eighth in their respective finals, with James Scully and Nicole Turner posting new lifetime bests in the process. In the final of the SM6 200m Individual Medley Nicole Turner shaved almost half a second off the massive best […]
Three Irish athletes into finals at Paralympic Swimming World Championships
In the busiest day so far for the Irish team at the Paralympic Swimming World Championships three of the five swimmers in action qualified for tonight’s final, with lifetime best times also for three of them. Continuing an outstanding debut Nicole Turner swam an enormous lifetime best in the heats of the SM6 200m Individual […]
Turner sixth in 50m Freestyle final at Paralympic Swimming World Championships
Irish teenager Nicole Turner swam superbly to finish sixth in the S6 50m Freestyle Final at the Paralympic Swimming World Championships in Glasgow this evening. In a final that was won in a new world record time of 34.14 by Yelyzaveta Mereshko of Ukraine, the thirteen year old, from Portarlington in County Laois, swam just […]
Turner through to 50m Freestyle final at Paralympic Swimming World Championships
Ireland’s Nicole Turner continued her successful debut at the Paralympic Swimming World Championships by qualifying for her fourth final in as many days. The thirteen year old, from Portarlington in County Laois swam another lifetime best in her heat this morning; 36.81, to place fourth and progress to tonight’s final sixth fastest. This morning’s time […]
Two sixth places for Turner and Scully in finals at Paralympic Swimming World Championships
Both of Ireland’s swimmers in action tonight at the Paralympic Swimming World Championships in Glasgow finished sixth in their respective finals. London 2012 Paralympian James Scully produced another season’s best performance in the final of the S5 200m Freestyle to finish in sixth place in a time of 2:53.77. Qualifying seventh fastest for the final […]
PB for Turner & SB for Scully to qualify for finals at World Champs
Another massive PB from Nicole Turner to make 50m Butterfly final at Paralympic Swimming World Championships Season’s best time from James Scully to make 200m Freestyle final Ireland’s Nicole Turner produced yet another lifetime best performance finishing second in her heat of the 50m Butterfly (S6 class*) at the Paralympic Swimming World Championships in Glasgow […]
Keane and Turner both swim lifetime bests to each finish fifth in respective Paralympic Swimming World Championship finals
Ireland’s Ellen Keane and Nicole Turner both swam lifetime best times in their respective finals of the Women’s 100m Breaststroke at the Paralympic Swimming World Championships in Glasgow tonight to each finish fifth. Thirteen year old Turner was first up in the final of the Women’s 100m Breaststroke (SB6 class*) and shaved yet more time […]
