Ellen Keane: 'I just knew I was capable of doing something great'

“The last thing my coach said to me before I went in was‘ If I need to push you in a wheelchair home, I want those legs wrecked. And that is exactly what I did.” 

Ireland's Ellen Keane celebrates winning a gold medal. Picture: INPHO/Tommy Dickson

Ellen Keane has claimed Ireland’s first medal of the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo - and it’s a gold.

Keane, a bronze medallist in the SB8 100m breaststroke at the 2016 Games in Rio, had swam the quickest race of her life earlier this morning when clocking a time of 1:21.71 to book her place in the final in the same event.