Danielle Hill celebrates after swimming the qualifying time for the Paris Olympics and lowering her Irish record to 59.11 in the 100m backstroke at the Irish Open Swimming Championships and Olympic trials at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inphotrials and Danielle Hill didn’t take long to add her name to the list of Paris qualifiers in telling style, smashing through the one-minute barrier for the first time in the women’s 100m backstroke.
“I had that 59.99 time in mind, and the first Irish woman to go sub 60, and I just wanted to cement that,” Hill said. “I didn’t want any questions asked. I just went for it, and thankfully dipped under.Michael Murphy: Galway impressively shift gears but Derry stall“So yeah, it’s pretty special , maybe even more special than the first, because I know where I’ve been the last two or three years, ready to walk away from the sport, nine months ago. It’s a relief, but I am ready to go again now.
Paris Olympic qualification times had already been achieved by Daniel Wiffen , Ellen Walshe , and Mona McSharry .Conor Ferguson is still knocking on the door of his Olympic qualification in the 100m backstroke, the 24-year-old from Belfast falling just short again in his opening heat. The 22-year-old Loughborough-based swimmers will go again in Thursday’s 800m freestyle final with Nathan targeting the Paris time of 7:51.65, before they both turn their attention to the 1,500m freestyle.
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