2020 Irish Winter Meet
- Thursday, December 17th – Saturday, December 19th
- National Aquatic Centre, Dublin, Ireland
- SCM (25m) for heats; LCM (50m) for finals
- Select Group of Elites Only
- SwimSwam Preview
- Live Results
Jack McMillan kicked off day 2 of the Irish Winter Meet by breaking his own National Senior record in the 200m free with a time of 1:42.74. He had set this record previously at 1:43.18 during the 2019 European Short Course Championships.
This was McMillan’s only event of the Friday prelims session and he is the top seed going into finals, more than 1 second ahead of Jordan Sloan who holds the National Senior record in long course. McMillan told Swim Ireland that he does have a goal in mind for finals, but “we’ll just see how it goes.”
🔥 Jack McMillan breaks 200m Freestyle record at #IrishWinterMeet day 2; Eoin Corby lands second Junior record of meet.
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18-year-old Eoin Corby took down the second record which fell this morning, following up his Junior record-setting 50m breast last night by outdoing his own National Junior record in the 100m IM and touching the wall at 54.76. Corby took over one-third of a second off of the record which he set last year at the Irish Short Course Championships. This swim came after his 100m breast where he posted a 58.91, about half a second off of his lifetime best.
Going into finals, Corby is the top seed in the 100 breast, with only a slight lead on Darragh Greene. Greene, the Irish National record-holder in the long course version of the event, finished the 2020 International Swimming League as a part of London Roar last month.
There will be more opportunities for records to fall in finals, which will be contested in long course meters, starting at 5:30pm in Dublin, or 9:30 AM PST and 12:30 PM EST in the United States.