Cork solicitor takes plunge as first male ‘water ballerina’

HE’S been crowned amateur world elephant polo champion, he was Ireland’s first-ever competitor at the sumo world wrestling championships in Osaka, and he holds the world record for the three-legged marathon. But adrenalin junkie Colin Carroll is about to make his biggest-ever splash.

The Cork-based solicitor has pulled on his Speedos to break into the fiercely competitive – and almost exclusively female – world of international synchronised swimming.

The self-styled “sports visionary” has helped set up Synchro Ireland – the country’s first synchronised swimming club.