Mona McSharry set another new Irish senior record for the 100m individual medley in Saturday's semi-final at the World Short Course Swimming Championships in Abu Dhabi.
Having become the first Irish woman to swim the event in under a minute when coming third in her heat in 59.65 earlier on Saturday - beating her own Irish record of 1:00.34 set in December 2018 - the Olympic finalist went even better in the semi-finals, finishing in a time of 59.35 to move up into 13th place.
It means the Sligo native has set new Irish senior records in four of her five races in Abu Dhabi.
Speaking after the opening heat, McSharry had admitted that she did feel the pain in posting that new record time.
"It definitely hurt coming home but it was a really good time," she said.
"My target was to break the minute. I've kind of had that on my mind for a couple of years. I’m really happy with how that went. Hopefully I can improve even more."
Also in action on Saturday morning was Tyrone swimmer Calum Bain. Based at Stirling University in Scotland, he was bang on his lifetime best time of 21.61 in the 50m freestyle heats. He finished 20th overall and is scheduled to be back at the Etihad Arena on Sunday for the 50m butterfly heats.
Earlier 400m individual medley silver medallist Ellen Walshe clocked 26.33 in her 50m butterfly heats to finish 22nd. Her next events come on Monday when she is scheduled to swim the 100m butterfly and 200m individual medley.
