Mona McSharry won a gold medal in the 50m breaststroke on the final day of racing at stop two of the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup in the US.
McSharry, who won 100m breaststroke silver on Saturday, added to her collection with an outstanding swim in the 50m final in Westmont, Illinois, matching her 2021 Irish record of 29.59 to top the podium.
The 100m breaststroke Olympic bronze medallist touched home seven hundredths of a second ahead of Anastasia Gorbenko (29.66) while Florine Gaspard took bronze in 29.70. They were the only three swimmers under the 30-second mark.
Already a gold and silver medal winner over the weekend in the 400m individual medley and 200m butterfly, Ellen Walshe added a fourth and fifth place in the 200m IM and 100m butterfly.
The Templeogue swimmer touched in 56.74 in the 100m butterfly final, improving on her heat time of 57.43, and was home in 2:07.48 in the medley final, bettering her preliminary swim of 2:09.01 by over a second.
McSharry and Walshe will both return for the third and final stop of the World Cup from 23-25 October in Toronto, Canada.
They will be joined by six other Irish swimmers, including World Aquatics Championships finalist and European Under-23 triple medallist Ellie McCartney, Alex Moore (Wycombe), and National Centre Ulster swimmers Rosalie Phelan, Brandon Biss, Lachlan Reid and Lottie Cullen
