Ireland’s Mona McSharry Leads Women’s 50 Breast Semi-Finals; USA Qualifies 3rd & 4th

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Women’s 50 Breast Semi-Finals

Mona McSharry of Ireland flirted with a new national record in semi-finals of the women’s 50 breast. McSharry, who owns the 200 breast Irish National Record, stopped the clock at a top showing of 31.09 to lead the top eight into tomorrow’s finals.

Canada’s Faith Knelseon grabbed a close second place seed with a time of 31.15, followed by the American duo of Emily Weiss and Zoe Bartel. The two young Americans posted similar times of 31.32 and 31.34 respectively.

Weronika Hallmann of Poland qualified fifth overall for finals with a 31.44, while Lithuania’s Agne Seleikaite posted a 31.76 for the sixth place seed.

Turkey’s Gulsen Beste Samanci and Austria’s Chelsea Hodges completed the top eight qualifiers with times of 31.87 and 31.90.

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