It means Irish swimmers have now won freestyle medals in the 200m (bronze for Evan Bailey), 400m, 800m and 1,500m. Walshe was superb in adding to Ireland’s medal tally, storming through in the penultimate stroke, the breaststroke, to win silver in 2:04.78, just .03 off her Irish record. Dutch star Marrit Steenbergen won another gold medal in a European record of 2:01.83. Bailey was the best of a trio of Irish swimmers in the 50m freestyle heats, the 200m freestyle bronze medallist clocking 22.11. USA’s Alex Walshe won gold in 1:06.55.

Source: The Irish Times December 07, 2025 05:55 UTC