ANOTHER LIFETIME BEST FOR BARRY MCCLEMENTS TO END PARA SWIMMING WORLD SERIES
Irish teenager Barry McClement’s lifetime best swim in the C final of the 100m Backstroke was the highlight for the Irish on the final day of competition at the Para Swimming World Series in Berlin. The fifteen year old, who swims out of the Ards club in Co. Down initially set a new best time […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Four Irish Swimmers through to finals at World Series
Four of the Irish swimmers competing at the inaugural Para Swimming World Series Meet in Copenhagen have qualified for this evening’s finals. Ellen Keane, Barry McClements, Nicole Turner and Patrick Flanagan will feature across six of tonight’s finals on the concluding day of the event. Gold medallist in the 400m Freestyle yesterday McClements continued his […]
