Limerick's Fiona Doyle is through to the semi-finals of the women’s 200 metres breaststroke at the European Swimming Championships in London.
Doyle, who narrowly missed out on a bronze with a fourth placed finish in the women’s 100 metre breaststroke final last night, qualified 11th overall in a time of 2.29.07 after finishing fifth in her heat to make the last 16.
The 200m breaststroke semi-finals are the water at 7.20pm today.
Fifteen-year-old Sligo swimmer Mona McSharry - who trains at the Marlins Swimming Club in Ballyshannon, Donegal - also swam the 200 breaststroke heats but failed to advance.
Curtis Coulter was the fastest of the three Irish swimmers in the heats of the men’s 100 metres freestyle in 49.59 seconds, but he along with Shane Ryan and Jordan Sloan didn’t make the semi-finals.
Coulter's time was just 0.10 of a second outside the Irish senior record held by Ryan Harrison, which was recorded at the 2009 World Championships in Rome using the now banned high tech body ‘shiny’ suits.
As a result of being faster than Ryan and Sloan, the Ards swimmer will now be on the anchor freestyle leg of the Irish men’s 4x100 metres medley relay on Sunday in London.
The finals on day four of the week-long meet are off at 6pm tonight
