Seventeen-years old Sycerika McMahon, who qualified for the Olympic Games on Tuesday, finished a creditable fifth in the final of the women’s 100 metres breaststroke at the European Swimming championships at Debrecen in Hungary

Sanita Puspure is the latest athlete to join Ireland’s Olympic Games tilt in the summer.

Melanie Nocher has capped off a positive day for Irish swimming by joining Sycerika McMahon in qualifying for the Olympic Games.

Seventeen-year-old swimming prospect Sycerika McMahon is London-bound after securing the Olympic A standard in the 100m breaststroke this morning.

Irish swimmer Sycerika McMahon has qualified for the Olympics at the European Swimming Championships this morning.

Sycerika McMahon has qualified for the women's 100m freestyle at May's European Swimming Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.

Two Irish records have been broken in the morning heats on day three of the Irish Swimming Championships and Olympic Trials at the National Aquatics Centre.

One of Irish swimming’s oldest records fell on day three of the Irish Long Course Swimming Championships and Olympic Trials, as 20-year-old Bethany Carson slipped under Michelle Smith’s 100m butterfly mark from 1996.

THE final day of the Irish Open Short Course Championships kicked off with an Irish senior record from Barry Murphy in the heats of the 50m butterfly (24.03), where he knocked half a second off the old record which has stood since 2002.

DCU sprinter Brian Gregan is hoping to break the personal best he set yesterday when he attempts to win a gold medal today in the 400m at the World University Games in China.

BELFAST’S Melanie Nocher yesterday smashed Michelle Smith’s 14-year-old Irish 200m backstroke record at the Speedo western Canadian swimming championships.

IRISH swimmers smashed 11 national records in the last week.

Swim Ireland (SI) has announced the Irish swimmers who have qualified to compete in this year’s European Senior and Junior Championships.