Former Ad Astra Elite Scholar Darragh Greene, who holds the Irish breaststroke records from 50-200m, went 59.82 over 100m at the 2019 World Aquatic Championships in Gwangju, months after stopping the clock at 2:10.05 in the 200m at the Irish Open with both times inside the cut.<\/p>\n
Greene is also part of Ireland\u2019s men\u2019s 4x100m medley relay who finished seventh in the LEN European Aquatics Championships final in Budapest.<\/p>\n
Greene, along with Shane Ryan, Brendan Hyland, and Jack McMillan set a new national senior record of 3:34.62 in the heats and went under 3:35.00 for a second time to finish seventh in the final in 3:34.88. Greene, along with teammate Shane Ryan, was pre-selected by Swim Ireland for Tokyo after the Olympic nomination policy was revised in light of the pandemic.<\/p>\n
There was also success in Budapest for UCD\u2019s Erin Riordan. The Women\u2019s Four of Mona McSharry, Danielle Hill, Victoria Catterson and Erin Riordan finished in a time of 3:44.37 \u2013 fifth in their heat but shaving almost three seconds off the previous Irish Senior record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Ad Astra Elite Scholar Darragh Greene, who holds the Irish breaststroke records from 50-200m, went 59.82 over 100m at the 2019 World Aquatic Championships in Gwangju, months after stopping the clock at 2:10.05 in the 200m at the Irish Open with both times inside the cut. Greene is also part of Ireland\u2019s men\u2019s 4x100m…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4061,"template":"","sport_categories":[107],"class_list":["post-4059","sport","type-sport","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","sport_categories-107"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n