Driven Doyle hoping to make another giant leap

Baby steps is how swimmer Fiona Doyle described her approach to the tomorrow’s World Championships, each swim an opportunity to close the gap on the pool’s elite.

Driven Doyle hoping to make another giant leap

It doesn’t really add up though. Not when the 21-year-old has spent the past few months taking one giant leap after another, a string of national records, accentuated by a silver medal at the World University Games.

Having played a supporting role to Gráinne Murphy and Sycerika McMahon in recent years, Doyle started the move to centre-stage by breaking the Irish 200m breaststroke record in March, before wiping clear McMahon’s name from the 100m equivalent.

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