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Olympic bronze medallist Mona McSharry has bowed out at the semi-final stage of the 200m Breaststroke in Paris.

McSharry, who won 100m Breaststroke bronze on Monday, swam her fourth fastest time ever to finish sixth in her heat and eleventh overall in 2:24.48.

Speaking after the race McSharry said “Right now I’m just upset, all I know is the time and it wasn’t fast enough so it’s hard to do more than that right now, but definitely upset. It was definitely a little harder than this morning, but in the race you hope that’s because you’re going faster and it’s hurting more because the times going to be faster but sadly that’s not always I guess the way it goes. I probably just exerted a bit too much energy in the front half and paid for it in the back half.”

McSharry returns to the pool on Saturday for the Women’s 400m Medley Relay, it will be the first time Ireland will have an entry in the event since 1972 “The relay is just a fun event to go out with the girls and do something special and you know that relay hasn’t raced in a long long time and it’s the first time it officially qualified, so I think that’s just going to be a great way to finish off the meet and that’s how I viewed it before even coming in this and it will be nice just to have one last race with them.”

On Thursday, Tom Fannon will make his Olympic debut for Ireland in the 50m Freestyle. In May, at the Irish Open and Olympic Trials, Fannon became the first Irish man to break 22 seconds in the event in 21.94.

Wednesday 31st July Results

• Women 200m Breaststroke                         Mona McSharry                H 2:23.78 (7^th)   SF 2:24.48

Thursday 1^st August Schedule

• Men 50m Freestyle Heats                            Tom Fannon                       10.18 Heat 6/10