Mona McSharry aiming for podium after stunning PB books Olympic final place

The Sligo swimmer produced a PB performance in a rocking arena.

Mona McSharry of Team Ireland after finishing second in her women's 100m breaststroke semi final. Pic: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

A night of incredible noise and drama at the La Defense Arena and Mona McSharry was there in the thick of it, the Sligo swimmer’s PB in the women’s 100m breaststroke delivering her a prime lane in Monday’s final at this brilliantly boisterous venue.

This was a night when the French golden boy, Leon Marchand, the face of this Olympics on home soil, won the first of what his adoring public hopes to be four gold medals across eight days. He did it with an imperious destruction of the 400m individual medley field.