Fourth for Greta Streimikyte in 1500m final at World Championships
Rio Paralympian Greta Streimikyte put in a season’s best performance on the opening night of action at the Para Athletics World Championships to place fourth in the final of the women’s T13 1500m. The Clonliffe Harriers athlete ran a tremendous race maintaining pace with the leading trio throughout to cross the line in 4:47.54. The […]
MORE PERSONAL BESTS FOR IRISH AT PARA SWIMMING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
The good form of the Irish team continued on the penultimate day of the Para Swimming World Series meet in Berlin. In this morning’s heats Ards teenager Barry McClements was just outside his best time placing fourteenth of the ninety-one swimmers in the 400mFreestyle heats. He touched in a time of 4:33.20 which was […]
Another lifetime best for McClements the highlight on day two of World Series
Another lifetime best swim from Ards teenager Barry McClements in the junior final of the 100m Freestyle was the highlight for the Irish contingent on the second day of the World Para Swimming World Series meet in Berlin. His time of 1.01.10 saw him ranked tenth overall of the junior athletes in action. Four of […]
Top ten finishes on final day of ParaSwimming World Series in Sheffield
Teenage swimmers Nicole Turner and Barry McClements concluded the third leg of the Para Swimming World Series for the Irish team, with a sixth and seventh place finish in their respective 400m Freestyle finals this evening in Sheffield. Fourteen-year-old Turner who won a bronze medal in the 50m Butterfly final last night raced solidly […]
World Series Bronze for Nicole Turner
Fourteen-year-old Nicole Turner has won a bronze medal in the 50m Butterfly final at the Para Swimming World Series in Sheffield. The Laois native, who competes in the S6 class, raced impressively to record a time of 37.44seconds (851 points); notably just outside of the lifetime best time she set in the Paralympic final in […]
Three Irish Swimmers through to Finals at World Series this evening
Irish swimmers will feature in three finals on the penultimate day of the Para Swimming World Series in Sheffield this evening after Ellen Keane, Nicole Turner and Barry McClements all advanced impressively from heats this morning. These World Series races are being run as multi class so athletes from different classes are racing in the […]
Keane and Turner feature in finals on second day of World Series
In the final of the 200m Individual medley at the Para Swimming World Series in Sheffield Ireland’s Ellen Keane and Nicole Turner finished 10th and 11th respectively. These World Series races are being run as multi, or mixed class so athletes from different classes are racing in the same heats, and finals. The winners […]
Keane and Turner through to 200m IM final at World Series
All four Irish swimmers were back in the pool this morning at the Para Swimming World Series in Sheffield. The quartet raced in the 50m Freestyle heats, with Ellen, Nicole and Barry out for a second time then in the heats of the 200m Individual Medley (IM). National Aquatic Centre club swimmers Turner and Keane […]
Keane & Turner make finals on opening night in Sheffield
All four Irish swimmers raced on the opening day of the Sheffield edition of the Para Swimming World Series. Rio Paralympians Nicole Turner and Ellen Keane both advanced from morning heats to finals this evening. The pair raced in the multi-class 100m Breaststroke final with Paralympic bronze medallist Keane placing ninth in 1:25.32, and fourteen […]
Former athlete John Fulham elected President of Paralympics Ireland
Four time Paralympian John Fulham was last night elected unopposed as the next President of Paralympics Ireland at the AGM, with his four-year term commencing immediately. Limerick native Fulham succeeds Jimmy Gradwell who had served two successive terms spanning eight years. Outgoing President Jimmy Gradwell (left) with incoming President John Fulham (right). Fulham competed successfully […]
Athletics team depart for warm weather camps
Nine of our leading para athletes, and key support staff left Dublin Airport this morning bound for warm weather camps. Five of the track athletes; Jason Smyth, Orla Comerford, Paul Keogan, Conor McIlveen and Greta Streimikyte departed for Tenerife where they will be joining up with wheelchair racer Patrick Monahan who has been out there […]
Three Medals for Irish on Final Day of Para Swimming World Series Meet
Irish para swimmers Ellen Keane and Barry McClements both claimed medals on the concluding day of the inaugural Para Swimming World Series Meet in Copenhagen, Denmark. In this first international meet of the season Keane claimed gold and silver, with Barry McClements also securing silver. Rio Paralympic medallist Ellen Keane was first up snatching […]
