National Teams for Summer 2019 International Meets Announced

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Swim Ireland have announced their team for this years FINA World Championships in Korea, and it will be led by 2018 World Short Course Swimming Championship bronze medalist Shane Ryan. 


Ryan, will be joined by World Youth Olympics medallist Niamh Coyne, World Junior silver medallist Conor Ferguson, Darragh Greene, Jordan Sloan, Robbie Powell, Brendan Hyland, Jack McMillan, Curtis Coulter and Ellen Walshe.


An 8-strong team has also been selected for the LEN European Junior Championships in Kazan, Russia. Named in the team are Eoin Corby, Amelia Kane and Daniel Wiffin, who will also participate at this year’s FINA World Junior Championships in Budapest, along with Uiseann Cooke, Paddy Johnston, Alfie Kelly, Sean Scannell and Sean McNicholl. 


Nominations to the Olympic Federation of Ireland (OFI) have also been made for a small but focused team to feature at the IOC European Youth Olympic Festival in Baku, with Molly Mayne and Ellie McKibbin being considered by the OFI for selection ratification in the coming weeks.


Ireland’s National Performance Director Jon Rudd was in an upbeat mood after the announcements saying, “We asked our athletes and coaches to once again step up and deliver performances in a sole trials period and this selection is a culmination of that process. For our three junior/youth teams, athletes had to deliver high standards in the heats to have the easiest passage onto our National Teams and those selected here were all able to do that in a pressurised trials environment.”


“Both our season best and lifetime best performances at the Irish Open were impressive and we can now focus on this final cycle into the summer and deliver again in each athlete’s benchmark meet. The Olympic Games are closer than ever and we are no less than one year away from our own Olympic Trials. With this in mind, opportunities and challenges such as those before us this summer must be used wisely – for both the moment itself and in preparation for Tokyo. We can all feel and see our progress and the summer of 2019 will be yet another important step for those of us seeking international success from Irish swimming,” continued Rudd. 


Photo courtesy of Swim Ireland 


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