Keane and Turner through to evening finals at Paralympic Swimming World Championships

Both record new personal bests in qualifying for the finals Irish swimmers Ellen Keane and Nicole Turner both swam lifetime bests in the morning heats of their respective 100m breaststroke at the Paralympic Swimming World Championships in Glasgow today to qualify for tonight’s finals. Thirteen year old Turner was first up in the sole heat […]
Bronze for Ireland’s Darragh McDonald at Paralympic Swimming World Championships

Nicole Turner fifth in World Championship final Ireland’s Darragh McDonald has won a bronze medal in the final of the 400m Freestyle (S6 class) at the Paralympic Swimming World Championships in Glasgow this evening in a time of 5:12.61. The twenty one year old swam a season’s best performance in the heats this morning to […]
McDonald & Turner through to 400m Freestyle Finals at Paralympic Swimming World Championships

Lifetime best swims from Keane and Turner in heats On the opening day of the Paralympic Swimming (IPC) World Championships in Glasgow this morning Ireland’s Darragh McDonald swam a season’s best time of 5:11.26 to win the first heat of the S6 400m Freestyle and qualify for tonight’s final at 8.13pm. London 2012 gold medallist […]
Irish team of six announced for Paralympic Swimming World Championships

A strong team of six has been announced to compete at the Paralympic Swimming (IPC) World Championships set to take place in Glasgow from July 13th – 19th.