Irish swimmers showed excellent form on the opening morning of the European Swimming Championships in Belgrade, with Max McCusker, Lottie Cullen, Eoin Corby and Darragh Greene advancing to semi-finals, while Ireland Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay will compete in this evening’s final.
Evan Bailey (New Ross) joined the National Centre Limerick trio of Finn McGeever, Jack Cassin, and Cormac Rynn to compete in the 4x200 freestyle relay. The Irish quartet, which included two senior international debuts from Cassin and Rynn, clocked a combined 7:18.71 to finish second in their heat and seventh overall to advance to the European Final.
Ireland had three swimmers compete in the 100 breaststroke with Darragh Greene quickest and advancing to the semi-final in 1:00.53 for eighth place overall.
Eoin Corby ensured he would join Greene later this evening with a time of 1:01.39 finishing 17th overall.
Uiseann Cooke also took to the blocks in the same event, making his Irish senior international debut, and his first since the 2019 European Junior Championships. The Tuam man came home in 1:02.89 to finish 34th, Cooke will return on day three for the 200 Breaststroke.
Max McCusker was the first Irish swimmer on the blocks this morning competing in the 50m butterfly heats.
The current senior record holder (23.44) swam one length of the Belgrade pool in a time of 23.72 to advance to this evening’s semi-final in 15th place.
Lottie Cullen donned an Irish swim cap on the international stage for the first time in the heats of the 200m backstroke. The 19-year-old swam an impressive 2:16.95 to advance through to the semi-final this evening.
The action will continue this evening from 17:30 (IRL) with Irish swimmers featuring across four events.
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