Mona McSharry places fourth in 50m breaststroke final at Swimming World Cup

Mona McSharry was fourth again in her latest final, the 50m breaststroke, at the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup in the United States.

McSharry clocked 29.82 seconds at the Carmel High School Natatorium in Carmel, Indiana.

The Marlins Swimming Club, Ballyshannon star was just 0.02 of a second off bronze medalist Ana Elendt, the German finishing in 29.80 seconds.

Olympic 100m breaststroke bronze medal winner McSharry was out of lane 6 and was an agonising fourth - as she had been 24 hours earlier in the 100m breaststroke final.

Eneli Jefimova of Estonia won the 50m breaststroke event in 29.33 with Florine Gaspard from Belgium second in 29.58 ahead of Elendt and McSharry.

In the 100m fina, McSharry finished in 1:04.16 to just miss a podium place.

Kate Douglass from the USA won in 1:02.90 with Jefimova second in 1:03.35.

Elendt took third in 1:03.83 ahead of McSharry, who set a new Irish record to reach the 200m breaststroke final.

Grange native McSharry was sixth in the 200m breaststroke final, finishing in 2:20.03 having clocked a new record, 2:19.95, in her heat.

Douglass won gold in 2:13.97 with Elendt second (2:17.80) and South Africa’s Rebecca Meder third (2:18.14).

Alex Walsh from USA and Australian Ella Ramsay were just in front of McSharry.

The three-stop series of the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup will continue in Westmont, Illinois on October 17-19 and Toronto on October 23-25.

Earlier this year, McSharry exited the 100m breaststroke at the World Aquatics Championships at the semi-final phase and had to skip the 200m due to a stomach bug. 

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In her 100m semi-final at the Singapore Sports Hub, McSharry finished in 1:06.33 having won her heat in 1:05.99 and missed out on a final spot.

In 2024, McSharry won Olympic 100m breaststroke bronze in Paris.