Swimming
Introduction to Swimming
Swimming is a hugely physical and demanding sport, with athletes competing over distances from 50m to 400m, with races lasting from 20 seconds to over four minutes in length. Swimmers need huge strength and stamina to power themselves through the water, as well as perfectly honed technique.
Events for the Olympic swimming programme are held in a 50-metre-long pool and include 26 individual and six team relay men’s and women’s events. These include freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and the individual medley style. The team events are the freestyle and the medley relay. For contact details of Swim Ireland please click on Full story
Bryan win’s Portugal 10K Open Water
Ireland’s Chris Bryan began his World Championship preparations with intent as he was the first man home at the Portugal Open Water Nationals today. As a qualifier for the home nation and for British Open Water Swimmers, a strong field of 43 swimmers started the race. Bryan started strong …
Barry Murphy leads Tri-Nations Team
Barry Murphy will lead an 18 strong team of swimmers at the Celtic Tri Nations Meet this weekend. The annual event pits top swimmers from Ireland, Scotland and Wales against each other with the 3 Nations all vying for the Celtic Tri Nations Championship Title. The event will be hosted …
National Swimming Championships
Sycerika McMahon who confirmed that she will be heading to Texas next year on a scholarship, kicked off the final day of action at the Carlton Irish National Swimming Championships putting a sixth national title to her name. McMahon (2:15.60) finished behind Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu (2:11.84) in the Women’s 200m …
Swimmers seek qualifying times
Irish swimmers will take to the pool this weekend (Friday to Sunday) for the first National Competition of 2013. The Dave McCullagh Memorial Meet, which is taking place at the University Arena, Limerick, is the first chance of qualification for swimmers for European and World Championships coming up this Summer. …
Limerick Head Swim Coach appointed
Swim Ireland, in conjunction with the University of Limerick, have appointed Lars Humer as the new Head Coach at the High Performance Centre at the University Arena. Humer will take up his new position on Monday next 14th January 2013. Originally from New Zealand, where he competed as a swimmer …
Melanie Nocher retires
Irish Swimmer Melanie Nocher has retired from international competition. Melanie competed for Team Ireland at the European Youth Olympics 2001 , and the Olympic Games 2008, and 2012. The Olympic Council wish Melanie every success in the future.
Banks pleased with European results
Ireland’s swimmers have set a total of 21 National Records at the European Short Course Swimming Championships in Chartres, France. “It has been a hugely successful championship for the Irish team” commented Swim Ireland’s High Performance Director Peter Banks. We are delighted with the way the whole team performed, Sycerika …
European Bronze for McMahon
Ireland’s Sycerika McMahon won a bronze medal in the 50m Breaststroke at the European short course swimming championships in Chartres, France last night. In three races from the heats, the 17-year-old set as many Irish records, culminating in a time of 30.34 seconds and a third-place finish behind Czech Republic’s Petra Chocova …
European Short Course Swimming
Olympians Barry Murphy (Aer Lingus SC & NAC HPC) and Sycerika McMahon (Leander ASC) will lead Ireland’s team of ten swimmers to compete at the European Short Course Swimming Championships in Chartres, France this week. The event taking place in L’Odyssée will see 38 European Federations compete across four days …
Murphy fails to qualify
Barry Murphy was the first Irish swimmer in the pool at the London Olympics when he contested this morning’s heats of the 100m breaststroke but there was disappointment for the Dubliner as he exited the competition, finishing eighth. The 26-year-old’s time of 1:01.57 was his second-fastest ever in the event …
London 2012