Swimming ChampionshipsSwimming Championships
World Down Syndrome Swimming Championships
Taiwan, 1st - 8th October 2010
Champions! Irish Swimmers return home from the 5th International and World Down Syndrome Swimming Championships in Taiwan with 12 medals
Seven Irish swimmers who took part in the 5th International and World Down Syndrome Swimming Championships in Taiwan returned home this weekend with 12 medals - 3 Gold, 4 silver and 5 bronze. The Irish team competed against 22 other teams from around the world.
Katie Troy from Offaly won 2 golds for the 25 metre Fly and Breast stroke, while Eleanor Murray won Gold for the 50 metre Freestyle. Other winners included David O'Connor, Mark Hogan and Mei- Lin Yap from Dublin, Darragh Murphy from Kildare and Peter Oxley from Westmeath.
Team Ireland pictured on their way to Taiwan: Back row (l-r) Darragh Murphy, Peter Oxley, Mark Hogan & David O' Connor. Front row (l-r) Mei-Lin Yap, Katie Troy & Eleanor Murray
Results to date:
Sunday 3rd:
Katie Troy 2 gold medals
Peter Oxley silver medal and a bronze
Mei-Lin Yap, bronze
Eleanor Murray, bronze
David O'Connor, bronze
Monday 4th:
Darragh Murphy Silver medal for 25m fly
Mark Hogan 800m freestyle 8th place but personal best (PB time)
David O'Connor 100m Freestyle 5th place
Peter Oxley 100m freestyle 6th place
Meilin Yap 200 free 5th place
Down Syndrome National Swimming Championships 2010
Update: Click here to view the results from the Swimming Championships
Date: Sunday 18th April 2010
Venue: Coolmine Pool, Clonsilla, Dublin 15
Time: 1pm - 7pm
We are looking forward to our National Swimming Championships and are hoping for a great turn out from our members. This is a great opportunity for our swimmers to gain competition experience, increase swimmers confidence and provide new challenges.
Entry and Medical forms can be downloaded here.
Information relating to the pool, including maps, can be found on the Coolmine Pool website.
Please note swimmers must be able to swim 25m and be comfortable in the deep end of the pool.
Please forward all completed entry forms and fees to:
Margaret Carroll, 2 Walworth Terrace, Portobello, Dublin 8
or email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Queries can also be emailed to this address
Entry fee: €5 per event. Please make cheques payable to Down Syndrome Ireland
Swimmers may compete in up to 4 events. Please note that athletes competing in 100m lenghts or greater, are not eligible to compete in 25m events
Closing date for entries 08/03/10. Late entries cannot be accepted.
Congratulations Team Ireland!
4th World Down Syndrome
Swimming Championships
17th Nov - 4th Dec 2008 - Albuferira, Portugal
'4th December 2008 - Team Ireland returning from the World Swimming Championships celebrating their success'
Our 19 swimmers arrived home on the 4th December from the World Down Syndrome Swimming Championships. All in great spirits after coming 5th in the world out of 23 participating nations. Congratulations to the swimmers, their coach and Manager. Thanks also to the Chapereones and the family members who travelled out to support the team. Organising the Ireland team is an enormous undertaking involving many months of hard work and daunting logistics. This was all done in a voluntary capacity by Margaret Carroll and I know you will all join me in congratulating her and in thanking her for devoting so much of her spare time in organising everthing and the great success of the trip.
Additional photos here on O'Neill's website
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Thank you also to the Dublin Airport Authority for their assistance to the Team.
2008 National Down Syndrome Swimming Championships
Irish Swimming Team 2008
Following our National Swimming Champonships in March this year and and in line with the criteria required by the Down syndrome International Swimming Organisation (DSISO) the team has been selected to represent Ireland in the 4th World Swimming Championships and International Competition which will take place in Portugal in November this year. The team are listed below.
| Female Swimmers: | Male Swimmers: |
| Maeve Phillips: Dublin | David O'Connor: Dublin |
| Laura Jane Dunne: Dublin | David O'Sullivan: Galway |
| Sarah Carroll: Dublin | David Clarke: Louth |
| Mei-Lin Yap: Dublin | Niall Kavanagh: Dublin |
| Monina McCarthy: Louth | Mark Hogan: Dublin |
| Katie Troy: Offaly | Peter Oxley: Westmeath |
| Marie Conlon: Monaghan | Darragh Murphy: Kildare |
| Ciara Trait: Kilkenny | Keith Murtagh: Dublin |
| Eleanor Murray: Meath | Declan Murphy: Waterford |
Results of National Down syndrome Swimming Championships 2008
Coolmine Leisure Centre
Clonsilla Dublin 15
We had a very successful swimming championships this year with 19 counties represented. That has been the best representation from our branches to date. It is wonderful to see the ability of all our swimmers and how each year the standard improves. This year for the first time we are putting the results up on our website so that everybody can see what can be achieved by our young people.
From these results a team will be selected for the International and World Championships in Portugal in November this year. The team selected will have to meet the qualifying times (which are much faster than ours).
For more information on this event see www.dsiso.org. The selected team will be notified in writing by Friday April 18th and will be listed on our website.
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Margaret Carroll