Danielle Hill Units Irish Information In 100 Again & 50 Fly At McCullagh Worldwide
Danielle Hill set Irish information within the 100 again and 50 fly at a medal-laden McCullagh Worldwide in Bangor that showcased her versatility.
The meet acted as Eire’s ultimate qualification alternative for this yr’s junior summer season worldwide meets, together with the European Aquatics Junior Swimming and Open Water Championships.
For Eire’s senior swimmers, the 4 days introduced a chance to tune up for the Irish Open Championships and Olympic trials, going down from 22-26 Could.
The 25-year-old Hill opened her meet with victory within the 50m backstroke, touching in 27.75 within the 50m, simply six hundredths of a second off her Irish document of 27.69.
Hill returned on day two to go 26.45 within the 50 fly as she reduce 0.17secs from Mona McSharry’s 2019 document of 26.62.
She additionally took the 50 free title that very same session in 25.20, simply 0.05 off her nationwide document of 25.15.
Danielle Hill: Picture Courtesy: David Kiberd, Swim Eire
Come the penultimate day of the four-day meet and Hill set a brand new customary of 1:00.16 within the 100 again to shave 0.02 off her document of 1:00.18, set on the 2021 Irish Olympic Trials the place she certified for Tokyo 2020.
The 24-year-old has her sights firmly on the Irish Olympic trials in Could as she vies for a seat on the airplane to Paris, the place she’s going to should be the primary Irish swimmer to interrupt the one minute mark within the occasion with the Olympic Qualification Time set at 59.99.
Hill additionally received the 100 free in 55.44 forward of Victoria Catterson (55.93) and Grace Davison who set an Irish junior document of 56.13.
Ellen Walshe and Lottie Cullen shared the silver, each stopping the clock at 1:01.90.
The world short-course silver medallist over 400IM, additionally received the 100 fly in 58.47, simply off her Irish document of 57.96, and was second behind record-breaking hill within the 50 in 26.77.
Walshe, who achieved the Olympic Qualification Time (OQT) within the 200IM on the 2023 World Championships, received the brief medley in 2:12.90 earlier than successful the 4IM on Sunday in 4:41.99.
Niamh Coyne was the one lady inside 1:10 to win the 100m breaststroke in 1:08.29 and doubled up within the 200 the place she touched out Olwyn Cooke in 2:29.81 to 2:29.84 following a stroke-for-stroke battle.
Irish record-holder Catterson the received 200m freestyle in 2:01.03 and accomplished the 200/400 double in 4:17.90.
Within the males’s 200m freestyle, Evan Bailey bought the contact in 1:50.26, simply forward of Nationwide Centre Limerick’s Finn McGeever (1:50.57).
Bailey added the 100 free gold (50.03) to his assortment, simply .03 off the Irish Junior Document, and in addition received the 100 fly in 54.23, simply 0.01 exterior his Irish junior document.
He twice lowered the 50 fly Irish junior document on Sunday, going 24.60 throughout prelims to beat a six-year document of 24.71 earlier than returning for the ultimate the place he went 24.49.
John Shortt: Picture Courtesy: ©INPHO/Dan Sheridan
Nationwide Centre Dublin team-mates Tom Fannon (22.39) and Calum Bain (22.91) have been the one males to interrupt 23secs within the males’s 50 free.
Within the males’s 200m backstroke, Nationwide Centre Limerick’s John Shortt was only one hundredth of a second off his Irish Document claiming gold in 1:58.48. The Irish Document of 1:58.47, was set within the semi-final of the World Championships in Doha in February.
Shortt was the one swimmer to dip underneath the 26-second mark within the 50 again, stopping the clock on 25.72.
He accomplished the backstroke treble on the ultimate evening with victory over 100m in 55.22, a private greatest.
