Michelle Smith's butterfly record broken

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.

A slender one-hundredth of a second margin saw the Lisburn swimmer usurp controversial triple-Olympic champion Smith, recording a new Irish record of 1:00.58. Smith’s time of 1:00.59 was set at the European Championships in Vienna sixteen years ago.