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Day 3 at Irish Youth & Senior Championships and Ulster swimmers continue with their medal haul: Men 1500m Freestyle 16 years – Ben Wilson (Ards) Silver & Cody Lau (Ballymena) Bronze 18 years – Gannon Robertson (Leander) Silver 19+ years – Samuel Wright (Bangor) Bronze Men 50m Backstroke Brandon Biss (Swim Belfast) Bronze Men 200m […]

The Irish Youth & Senior Championships started on Tuesday 23rd July at the National Aquatic Centre in Dublin. Across the Tuesday (Day 1) and Wednesday (Day 2), we’ve watched our Ulster swimmers perform superbly in the water.  Day 1 Summary Men 800m Free 16 years – Ben Wilson (Ards) – Gold Women 200m Butterfly 15 years

Swim Ulster are delighted to have received funding from Sport NI from their Sports Systems Investment programme. Made possible by the National Lottery players, the programme supports 34 sports governing bodies, from Rugby, Football and GAA to Rambling, Wheelchair Basketball and of course, Swimming. Stephen Cuddy, Chief Executive of Swim Ulster, expressed heartfelt gratitude for the

Day 1 The first day of the 2024 Irish National Age Group Championships got underway today in a packed pool at the University of Limerick Sports Arena. The first medals of the week were up for grabs in the 200 Mixed Medley Relay event with Lisburn taking the Silver medal in a time of 2:25.36, and bronze

A strong Irish team of twelve swimmers and four coaches represented Ireland this year at the European Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships hosted in Vilnius, Lithuania. Across the six-day meet, six Ulster-representing athletes took to the Lazdynai Swimming Pool to compete and race against some of Europe’s fastest Junior swimmers. Our six athletes included Reuben Alty

Team Ireland Announcement Yesterday, the Olympic Federation of Ireland (OFI) named the fourteen athletes – twelve swimmers and two divers – who will be representing Team Ireland at this year’s 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris. From this team, which is the largest in Ireland’s aquatic history, six of the twelve swimmers are from a

12 Nov 2023 Friday 7th June 2024 saw the annual Forest Feast AquaSprint Finals taking place in 7 venues throughout Ulster Division 1 A Final – Lagan Valley Leisureplex Lisburn – Bangor, Banbridge, Ards Division 1 B Final – Blair Mayne LC Ards – Lisburn, Ballymena Division 2 A Final – Lisnasharragh LC Belfast –

Danielle Hill became the first Irish swimmer to win a long course European Championships Gold medal in 27 years winning the 50m backstroke in Belgrade in a time of 27.73 seconds. Danielle finished ahead of Theodora Drakou of Greece to the gold medal by just 0.14 seconds while Poland’s Adela Piskorska was third. This win

As the calendar edges deeper into Northern Irish winter, we would expect the chilly embrace of snowflakes or at least the gentle patter of raindrops. Yet, this Sunday was an exception.  With temperatures barely nudging over 6 degrees Celsius, the water was a brisk reminder that winter was indeed upon us. In this unique setting,

Daniel Wiffen has won his second World Title of the week in the 1500m Freestyle this evening and has been named Male Swimmer of the Meet by World Aquatics on the final day of racing at the World Championships in Doha. Wiffen demolished the 1500m Freestyle field, claiming the gold medal by over ten seconds