Frustrating fourth for Roísín Ní Riain in 100m breaststroke final

This second fourth-place finish means the 19-year-old will return to Limerick with a silver and bronze.

Róisin Ní Riain of Ireland after finishing fourth in the women's SB13 100m breaststroke finaL.  pIC: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

No third medal for Roísín Ní Riain. No equalling of history. Instead, a second fourth of these Paralympic Games. And if her butterfly fourth last Thursday didn’t frustrate, this one surely will.

Ní Riain qualified third fastest for Thursday evening’s SB13 100m breaststroke final, and for a brief period around the 75-metre mark it was in that bronze medal position she sat, but a disappointing finish saw her touch notably adrift in fourth.

Her time of 1:19.16 was slower than her morning swim of 1:19.05 and left over seven tenths of a second behind third-placed Colleen Young of the USA. Gold went to Great Britain's Rebecca Redfern in 1:16.02.

This second fourth-place finish means Ní Riain’s medal haul returning home to Limerick will stay at the silver and bronze, from the 100m backstroke and 200m individual medley, won over the past week.

A third medal here would have seen the 19-year-old match Mairead Berry’s feat from Sydney of climbing the Paralympic swimming podium three times at the one Games.