Donegal swimmers Anna Hennessy and Eoin Rooney introduced dwelling a powerful mixture of medals from the European Down Syndrome Swimming Championships in Italy.
Anna, from Letterkenny and Eoin, from Ballyshannon have been a part of a seven-strong workforce of swimmers representing the Irish Down Syndrome Swimming Organisation (IDSSO) in Padova final week.
All of the Irish athletes achieved their qualifying occasions to compete and had wonderful outcomes inside a area of greater than 17 nations.
Anna Hennessy took half in six particular person occasions plus two relays (one being pulled as a consequence of an harm of one of many swimmers); 100m and 50m entrance crawl, 100m and 50m butterfly taking private bests and in addition 100m and 50m backstroke.
With a private better of 12 seconds within the 100 again, Anna certified to the ultimate of the 50m again, taking sixth place in Europe.
This was Eoin’s first lengthy course worldwide meet of such excessive normal. He competed individually in 50m frontcrawl, 50m again, 50m butterfly and 100m frontcrawl in addition to the 4×100 combined frontcrawl relay during which alongside Anna, Eoghan and Katie, they positioned fifth.
Crew Eire took fifth place within the 4x100m combined free relay on the European Down Syndrome Swimming Championships
Crew Eire was supported by Head Coach Niall Molloy, Sinead Donagher and Johanna Tilley-Rock. Additionally they had very good parental assist from Padraig Ashe, Martina Kennedy, Ann English, Kevin Hennessy and Annmarie Hogg.
Crew Eire Padova 2023. Photograph: Irish Down Syndrome Swimming
Each Anna and Eoin are members of Nemo Particular Olympics Swim Membership. They each skilled collectively within the lead as much as the championships below coach Sinead Donagher, who’s Eoin’s mom, at Finn Valley Leisure Centre. Anna can also be a member of Swilly Seals and can also be coached by her father Kevin throughout the holidays.
Admiration for each Donegal swimmers was supported by the notable sponsorship from Kelly’s Diner Mountaintop and Convergint who ready the workforce with clothes/equipment to signify their nation on the European Championships.
“Anna and Eoin have been overwhelmed with the assist they acquired from Donegal which didn’t go unnoticed by the remainder of the workforce,” mentioned Sinead.
“They’re each extraordinarily pleased with themselves and now proceed to coach in preparation for the World Down Syndrome Championships in Turkey 2024.”
Eoin Rooney and Anna Hennessy on the 2023 European Down Syndrome Swimming Championships
A spokesperson from Swim Eire added: “Head Coach Niall Molloy, Sinead Donagher and Johanna Tilley-Rock have been the workforce coaches. Nonetheless, it couldn’t have occurred with out a fully implausible assist workforce: Padraig (head of Irish delegation), Ann, Martina & Ciaran (Crew Managers), Kevin & Ann- Maire (Medical assist) and all these relations who got here out to assist the workforce. Properly finished workforce.”
Donegal swimmers triumph at European Down Syndrome Swimming Championships was final modified: September twenty second, 2023 by
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