Jack McMillan Rattles Early Season Rankings; Double Delight for Ellen Walshe in Dublin
Jack McMillan posted a fantastic in-season time to win the 200 free on day two of the McCullagh Worldwide in Dublin.
McMillan posted 1:46.77 to complete 0.49 forward of Duncan Scott who clocked 1:47.26 with Nationwide Centre Limerick swimmer Jack Cassin subsequent house in 1:51.45.
Solely Rylee Erisman has gone faster than McMillan in 2026 along with his 1:46.66 on the Professional Swim Sequence meet in Austin final month.
McMillan added the 200 title to his successful outing over 800m on Friday when Scott received the 200 fly. The pair practice collectively day in, time out on the College of Stirling and had been teammates because the British 4×2 quartet received the world title in Singapore final yr.
Ellen Walshe: Photograph Courtesy: Andrea Masini / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
Ellen Walshe made two journeys to the highest of the rostrum on the Sport Eire Nationwide Aquatic Centre.
The Templeogue swimmer picked up her first gold of the night time within the girls’s 200 free when she prevailed in a battle with Grace Davison in 1:59.32 to 2:00.65. Bronze went to Lucy Hope (College of Stirling) in 2:01.74.
The double Olympian was again within the water moments later for the ladies’s 100m backstroke. Walshe and Lottie Cullen went stroke for stroke, with Walshe pulling away to select up her second gold of the night in 1:01.28. Cullen claimed silver in 1:02.05, whereas Jena Macdougald of UCD completed third in 1:03.56.
John Shortt added the 100 again to his 50 title, with a transparent win in 54.36. Dean Fearn (College of Stirling) clocked 56.05 to say silver, intently adopted by Dolphins’ Charlie Cassidy in 56.75.
Nationwide Centre Limerick’s Ellie McCartney clinched the 100/200 breaststroke double clocking 2:26.53 to dominate the longer race. She was greater than three seconds forward of Kara Hanlon (Edinburgh), who posted 2:29.78, with bronze going to Maisie Brown (2:35.42) of Swim England.
Eoin Corby charged house in 2:16.29 to win the lads’s occasion forward of Rory Dickson (Uni of Stirling) who went 2:18.70 and Nationwide Centre Ulster’s Lachey Reed in 2:21.27.
John Shortt: Photograph Courtesy: ©INPHO/Dan Sheridan
Edward Marcal Whittles (Chelsea and Westminster) got here house in 4:25.30 to win the lads’s 4IM, Tobias Birrer of Swim Regio Solothurn upgraded 800 silver to 1500 gold in 16:19.63 with Benji Jeffreys first within the males’s 50 fly in 24.14.
Icelandic swimmer Lilja Katja Andriysdóttir received the ladies’s 1500 in 9:14.91 with Rosalie Phelan (Nationwide Centre Ulster) successful the 50 fly in 27.25.
Additionally competing within the 50 fly was Para swimmer RóisÃn Nà Riain (Nationwide Centre Limerick), who on Friday night time set a brand new European Para file within the S13 50m Backstroke. The double Paralympic medallist clocked 30.71 for European file, breaking the earlier mark of 30.72 held by Anna Krivshina (Russia) since 2016. The file is topic to ratification from World Para Swimming.
