17-year-old five-hundredths of a second shy of bronze
The 17-year-old from Ballinaboola, Co Wexford finished her 16 lengths of the pool in the 800m freestyle in a world-class time of 8.25.04.
But her fourth place swim nevertheless rewrites the Irish record books and indeed lowers the Irish senior record again, by almost four seconds — an 11-second improvement that the young swimmer has made to the record since she arrived in Budapest. Murphy is also Ireland’s only finalist at a European Long Course Swimming Championships in the last 10 years.