Over the five days of action, there were two more Paris Olympic qualifiers, and four qualification times
Danielle Hill and Ellen Walshe provided two more standout performances at the conclusion of the Olympic Trials at the National Aquatic Centre, further underlying the unprecedented depth and excellence in Irish swimming.
In the women’s 50 metre backstroke, Hill came close to breaking her own record. Hill, who had qualified for the Paris Games in the 50 metre freestyle and 100 metre backstroke, was just one-hundredth of a second off the 27.64 she swam at the Ulster Championships three weeks ago, touching in 27.65 to win the national title.
Nathan Wiffen at the Swim Ireland Irish Open Swimming Championships & Olympic Trials. Photograph: Bryan Keane/Inpho Earlier in the evening Davison had won gold and the national title in the 50 metre freestyle. The 16-year-old won in 26.02 ahead of UCD’s Jena Macdougald and Sundays Wells’ Eva Harrington .The final event of the championships, the 50m butterfly, saw Dylan Registe claim the men’s title in 24.61 ahead of Ennis’s Dylan O’Brien and Isaac Fitzmaurice while in the women’s final Ards’s Emma Reid and UCD’s Jena Macdougald shared gold with both touching in 27.92.
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