Longford swimming star Darragh Greene reaches the European 100m Breaststroke Final

The first finals session of the 2024 European Aquatic Championships got underway in Belgrade, Serbia this Monday evening and while the temperatures may have soared, the Irish contingent continued to perform impressively on the European stage including a European seventh place for the Men’s Freestyle 4x200 Relay team and Tokyo Olympian Darragh Greene advancing to a European Final in the 100m Breaststroke. 

Darragh Greene was the standout individual performer on the opening evening of finals in Belgrade. The Longford man can consider it a job very well done as he returned to the blocks to go quicker than this morning’s swim (1:00.53) in 1:00.46, to finish fourth in his semi-final and progress in seventh overall to tomorrow’s Final. 

 Speaking following the semi-final, the National Centre (Dublin) swimmer said: “It’s good to get back for the final, seventh going back in and looking to move it on again with another faster time than the semis and heats. The goal heading into this meet was to get some good metre racing in and there’s no better way of practising your race skills, tactics and execution than racing itself.”

 Greene will feature in the final on Tuesday evening which is set to get underway at 5:48pm (IRL).

 Greene’s teammate in Dublin, Eoin Corby, was also competing in the 100m Breaststroke Semi-Finals. Corby performed strongly, improving on his 1:01.39 from this morning, clocking 1:00.89 to finish 11th in Europe.

 Day 1 | Evening Results

 Men 50 Butterfly - Max McCusker   H 23.72 (15th) SF 23.75 (15th)

Women 200 Backstroke - Lottie Cullen  H 2:16.95 (16th)  SF 2:15.57 (14th)

Men 100 Breaststroke - Darragh Greene  H 1:00.53 (8th)   SF 1:00.46 (7th)

Eoin Corby H 1:01.39 (17th)          SF1:00.89 (11th)

Uiseann Cooke H 1:02.89 (34th)

Men 4x200 Freestyle Relay Ireland                          H 7:18.71 (7th)   F 7:17.97 (7th)      

Day 2 Schedule

 Swimming

 Men 100m Freestyle - Shane Ryan, Oisin Tebite, Evan Bailey

Women 100m Breaststroke - Niamh Coyne, Ellie McCartney

Men 200m Backstroke - John Shortt

Mixed 4x100m Medley Relay - Ireland

Men 800m Freestyle - Nathan Wiffen

Men 100m Breaststroke Final - Darragh Greene - 5:48pm (IRL)

 Diving

 Women 1M Springboard          Clare Cryan