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Winning

Super 8: Sycerika McMahon dominates national champs -- again

Seventeen-year-old Sycerika McMahon won three more national titles on the final day of the Irish Short Course Swimming Championships.

SYCERIKA MCMAHON WAS the star of the show as she won three more national titles on the final day of the Irish Short Course Championships, taking her total to a super eight for the weekend.

The Portaferry teenager, who was unsurprisingly named Swimmer of the Meet, clinched gold in the 400m individual medley final before edging out Bethany Carson in the 200m freestyle final.

McMahon, 17, then capped a fine championships with another new Irish record, knocking Fiona Doyle’s 200m breaststroke time from the books as she won gold in 2:25.23.

It is the second straight year that McMahon has won eight national titles at the short course championships, held in Lisburn.

Tallaght’s Brendan Hyland added another Irish junior record to his growing collection, winning 400m individual medley gold in 4:20.43, more than 11 seconds faster than silver medallist Sean O’Brien.

Brendan Gibbons set a new Irish junior record in the 800m freestyle final (8:11.00) while in the women’s 50m butterfly final, Shauna O’Brien broke Julie Douglas’s eight-year-old record when she took gold in 27.30 ahead of Kilkenny’s Jane Roberts.

Full Results – Day 3

Women’s 1500m Free: 1st Ali Berry Aer Lingus 17:36.27 2nd Ciara Weadick Asgard 17:59.77 3rd Cliodhna Delaney Breifne 18:00.68 Men’s 800m Free: 1st Brendan Gibbons Athlone 8:11.00 IJR 2nd Conor Turner Aer Lingus 8:12.73 3rd Warren Roche Waterford Crystal 10:11.60 Women’s 400m IM: 1st Sycerika McMahon Leander 4:47.80 2nd Lydia Kehoe New Ross 5:00.30 3rd Therese Corry Portmarnock 5:02.78 Men’s 400m IM: 1st Brendan Hyland Tallaght 4:20.43 IJR 2nd Sean O’Brien Aer Lingus 4:32.22 3rd Bernard Cahill Ennis 4:33.42 Women’s 50m butterfly: 1st Shauna O’Brien UCD 27.30 2nd Jane Roberts Kilkenny 28.27 3rd Clodagh Flood Tallaght 28.82 Men’s 50m butterfly: 1st Brian O‘Sullivan NAC 26.00 2nd David O’Sullivan Galway 26.06 3rd Sam McGlynn 26.56 Women’s 200m freestyle: 1st Sycerika McMahon Leander 1:59.63 2nd Bethany Carson Lisburn 2:00.08 3rd Shauna O’Brien UCD 2:01.50 Men’s 200m freestyle: 1st David Prendergast Kilkenny 1:52.35 2nd Jordan Sloan Bangor 1:54.00 3rd Bernard Cahill Ennis 1:54.65 Women’s 100m backstroke: 1st Aisling Cooney UCD 1:01.62 2nd Jane Roberts Kilkenny 1:01.79 3rd Emma Cassidy Sundays Well 1:04.16 Men’s 100m backstroke: 1st B O’Sullivan NAC 55.84 2nd J Cobain Portmarnock 56.88 3rd C Duffy Galway 56.99 Women’s 200m breaststroke: 1st Sycerika McMahon Leander 2:25.23 ISR 2nd Shani Stallard UCD 2:30.53 3rd Niamh Kilgallon 2:37.99 Men’s 200m breaststroke: 1st B Griffin Aer Lingus 2:21.84 2nd E Crowley Mallow Swans 2:22.11 3rd P Angus Bangor 2:23.92 Women’s 4x100m MTR: 1st Bangor 4:23.40 2nd Kilkenny 4:23.56 3rd Lisburn City 4:31.15 Men’s 4x100m MTR: 1st Aer Lingus 3:55.00 2nd Bangor 3:56.05 3rd Ards 4:05.35 Women’s 4x100m FTR: 1st Galway 3:58.32 2nd Bangor 3:58.73 3rdKilkenny 4:00.10 Men’s 4x100m FTR: 1st Aer Lingus 3:32.73 2nd Bangor 3:34.79 3rd Invictus 3:50.89

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