Mona McSharry on her solution to fifth place within the girls’s 100m breaststroke last
Eire’s Mona McSharry completed fifth within the girls’s 100 metres breaststroke last on the World Swimming Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.
McSharry, 22, was in second place with 5 metres to go however her time of 1:06:07 noticed her pipped for a medal.
If she had repeated the time she set within the heats, a brand new Irish report of 1:05:55, she would have taken silver behind Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania.
NI’s Daniel Wiffen has reached the ultimate of the boys’s 800m freestyle.
The Magheralin swimmer lowered his personal Irish report as he was concerned in a troublesome four-way battle all through the 16 lengths of his warmth.
However he edged out American Bobby Finke on the ultimate stroke to win by six-hundredths of a second.
Wiffen’s time of seven:43.81 was comfortably contained in the qualification time for the Paris Olympics.
His mark was additionally simply contained in the earlier nationwide report of seven:44.45 as he moved into Wednesday’s last because the fourth quickest swimmer behind Australia’s Sam Brief.
Brief, 19, who took gold within the 400m freestyle on the primary day of the meet on Sunday, was spectacular in profitable his warmth in 7:40.90.
McSharry narrowly misses medal
McSharry was competing for silver going into the closing phases, earlier than being caught by Tatjana Schoenmaker from South Africa and American pair Lydia Jacoby and Lilly King.
She missed out on bronze by simply 0.13 seconds however will take confidence from the truth that she is competing with the perfect on the planet – the 4 swimmers who completed forward of her are all Olympic gold medal winners.
“I believe taking a look at it, it is clearly somewhat painful, particularly not swimming quickest within the last hurts, however it’s all a studying expertise and after I take a look at the people who got here forward of me, world champions, report holders, Olympic champions, so to be up there and racing towards them and have or not it’s such a detailed race is giving me a terrific confidence increase,” mentioned McSharry.
“I simply have to hold on to the remainder of the occasions this week and never let it take me down. I believe it is nice to have the ability to apply racing towards these folks for the Olympics subsequent yr as a result of that is the principle purpose in my thoughts, it is simply coaching and making ready for that.”
McSharry returns to the pool on Thursday for the 200m breaststroke heats.
Wiffen has ‘a lot extra within the tank’
Wiffen’s time of seven:43.81 was comfortably contained in the qualification mark for the Paris Olympics
“It feels nice, that is the primary job executed which was to qualify for the Olympics after which to make my manner by means of to the ultimate, so I’ve executed each and it was a terrific race,” mentioned Wiffen.
“My plan getting into was to be as straightforward as doable. I used to be perhaps hoping for a tiny bit quicker, however it wasn’t too taxing on the physique. I did not go to my legs in any respect, I simply wished to win the race, so I sped up somewhat however there’s a lot extra within the tank.”
Wiffen joined McSharry and Ellen Walshe in qualifying for the Olympics subsequent yr and turns into solely the fourth Irish swimmer to make a World Lengthy Course Championship last.
Additionally in motion for Eire had been Victoria Catterson and Darragh Greene.
Catterson, who’s concentrating on the 100m freestyle in Japan, was thirty first within the 200m freestyle in a time of two:00.82, simply over a second outdoors her personal Irish report of 1:59.86.
Greene swam 27:54 within the 50m breaststroke to complete twenty second place general.