Mona McSharry
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Full name | Mona McSharry | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Irish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (2000-08-21) 21 August 2000 (age 23) Grange, County Sligo, Ireland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Breaststroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mona McSharry (born 21 August 2000) is an Irish competitive swimmer. She is a two-time Olympian and won the gold medal in the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2024 Summer Olympics.[1][2][3][4] McSharry is also a junior world champion and a two-time junior European champion.
Career
McSharry is the holder of multiple national senior records (50 m, 100 m and 200 m breaststroke and 50 m butterfly in long course, 50 m and 100 m breaststroke and 100 m individual medley in short course, as well as mixed relay records in 4x50m FTR National Team and 4x50m MTR National Team, both over short course).[5] McSharry won her first international medals when she placed second in the 100 m breaststroke and third in the 50 m breaststroke at the 2016 European Junior Championships. In 2017, she won the 50 m breaststroke and 100 m breaststroke events, and placed second in the 200 breaststroke at the European Junior Championships in Netanya. In August of that year, she won the 100 m breaststroke event and finished third in the 50 m breaststroke at the World Junior Championships in Indianapolis.[6]
McSharry won the bronze medal in the 50 m breaststroke at the 2019 European Short Course Championships in Glasgow. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, finishing eight in the 100 metre breaststroke event.[7] McSharry won the bronze medal in the 100 m breastroke at the 2021 World Championships (25 m). On 29 July 2024, McSharry won the bronze medal in the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.[8][4]
Year | 100m | 200m |
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2024 | 11th |
Personal life
McSharry grew up in Grange, County Sligo.[9] In 2019, McSharry and her family competed in the seventh series of the popular RTÉ reality competition, Ireland's Fittest Family.[10] They won the competition under the guidance of mentor, former rugby player, Donncha O'Callaghan.[11]
References
- ^ "Nine Swimmers Join Team Ireland for Tokyo 2020". SwimIreland. 7 July 2021. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
- ^ Watterson, Johnny; O'Riordan, Ian; Branigan, David (26 July 2021). "Tokyo 2020 Day 3: Blow for Annalise Murphy's medal hopes while McSharry reaches final". The Irish Times. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
- ^ Watterson, Johnny (26 July 2021). "Tokyo 2020: Mona McSharry's achievement a paradigm shift for Irish swimming". The Irish Times. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
- ^ a b "McSharry wins Ireland's first medal at Paris Olympics". BBC Sport. 30 July 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
- ^ "Records". SwimIreland. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
- ^ Baldwin, Alan (31 July 2024). "Swimming-Irish success has been years in the making, says McSharry". Reuters.
- ^ "Mona McSharry runs out of steam and misses out on Olympic 200m breaststroke final". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ^ "Paris 2024: Joy for Mona McSharry in taking 100m breaststroke bronze". RTE Sport. 30 July 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
- ^ Gallagher, Emma (1 May 2021). "Mona is the pride of Sligo". Sligo Champion. Sligo. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ "Ireland's Fittest Family: Meet the Families for 2019". RTÉ.ie. 29 October 2019.
- ^ "Sligo family named the winners of Ireland's Fittest Family 2019". RTÉ.ie. 15 December 2019.
External links
- Mona McSharry at World Aquatics
- Mona McSharry at SwimRankings.net
- Mona McSharry at Olympics.com
- Mona McSharry at Olympedia