Danielle Hill and Tom Fannon joined Daniel Wiffen, Ellen Walshe and Mona McSharry as individual qualifiers.
THE IRISH OPEN Irish Open Championships and Olympic Trials concluded on Sunday evening with five individuals now having secured Olympic qualification times across nine events.
Swim Ireland performance director Jon Rudd said: ‘“After what has arguably been the best five days of domestic swimming racing that this island has seen, we can all feel highly satisfied with where Irish swimming is right now. In the Men’s 1500m Freestyle Final Nathan Wiffen swam a 14-second lifetime best to blow away the rest of the field.Wiffen had entered the competition with a best time of 15:21.11 and lowered that to 15:06.48 to win the national title in a new Championship Record and consideration time for the European Championships. The 22-year-old was just outside the Olympic qualification Time of 15:00.99.
John Shortt claimed his second national title of the week, adding 50m Backstroke gold to the 200m gold he won on Saturday night. Shortt clocked 25.80 ahead of Coolmine’s Gavin Keogh and NAC’s Matthew Walsh Hussey . Earlier in the evening Davison had won gold and the national title in the 50m Freestyle. The 16-year-old won in 26.02 ahead of UCD’s Jena Macdougald and Sundays Wells’ Eva Harrington .
In the Women’s 200m Breaststroke Final Ellie McCartney won her second gold medal, adding to 200m Individual Medley gold from earlier in the week. McCartney of National Centre Limerick touched in a European Championships consideration time of 2:29.20 ahead of National Centre Dublin’s Niamh Coyne and Limerick’s Olwyn Cooke .
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