Fresh from her gold (200m Butterfly) and silver (200m Individual Medley) wins at the European Aquatics Championships last week, Ellen Walshe continued her fantastic form with new Irish records in the heats and final of the 200m freestyle on Saturday.

The Templeogue swimmer clocked 1:55.23 in this morning’s heats, taking .67 of a second off Victoria Catterson’s 2023 record of 1:55.90. Her final swim, saw the 24-year-old take a further second and a half off the newly minted record touching in 1:53.72.

It was Walshe’s second win of the weekend having topped the podium in the 100m freestyle on Friday, the Olympic finalist now owns the long and short course records in the 200m freestyle.

Ards’ Grace Davison was second in the final in 1:56.32 with National Centre Limerick’s Danielle Farrell t

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