2025 LEINSTER ASPIRING CHAMPIONS MEET
- Saturday, March 8th – Sunday, March 9th
- National Aquatic Centre, Dublin, Ireland
- LCM (50m)
- Results: Meet Mobile – Leinster Aspiring Champions Mar 2025
While competing on day one of the 2025 Leinster Aspiring Champions Meet, Olympic finalist Ellen Walshe fired off a new Irish national record in the women’s 200m fly.
Templelogue’s 24-year-old Walshe produced a head-turning time of 2:08.42 in the final to earn the gold, obliterating her previous personal best in the process.
Entering this competition, Walshe held a career-quickest outing of 2:14.15, a time she put up over 5 years ago at the 2020 Flanders Swimming Cup.
Flash forward to tonight, and Walshe split 29.44/32.95/34.11/31.92 to erase that performance and become Ireland’s fastest woman ever in this event.
Her time sliced over a second off the longstanding previous national record of 2:09.91 Michelle Smith put on the books at the 1996 Olympic Games en route to claiming bronze there in Atlanta.
Walshe’s 2:08.42 effort now ranks her 5th in the world this season.
2024-2025 LCM Women 200 Fly
McIntosh
2:04.00
| 2 | Regan Smith | USA | 2:06.87 | 03/06 |
| 3 | Brittany Castelluzzo | AUS | 2:07.75 | 12/17 |
| 4 | Helena Rosendahl BACH | DEN | 2:08.41 | 01/31 |
| 5 | Ellen WALSHE | IRL | 2:08.42 | 03/08 |
Walshe now owns the following individual Irish records:
- LCM 100 fly – 57.96, 2023
- LCM 200 fly – 2:08.42, 2025
- LCM 200 IM – 2:10.92, 2023
- LCM 400 IM – 4:37.18, 2024
- SCM 50 fly – 25.45, 2024
- SCM 100 fly – 55.50, 2024
- SCM 100 IM – 58.55, 2024
- SCM 200 IM – 2:05.52, 2024
- SCM 400 IM – 4:26.52, 2021
Notorious doper Michelle Smith? I’m surprised those records weren’t nullified.
I’m actually curious what she’s doing now (Smith). Anybody know? I was in Dublin back in summer of 2019 and made a joke at the hotel pool like “I’m about to get my Michelle Smith on!”, and the person working there had no idea who she was. I felt old.
I believe she is a lawyer! Astonishing, isn’t it?!
Married Erik de Bruin, another drug cheat athlete. I believe his Dutch discus record still stands.
MICHELLE SMITH CHEATER
GOOD STUFF
Smith’s records should have been erased many years ago.
Finally!
Huge swim! Congrats!
(What a last 50 if the splits above are correct.)
Only the LC 400free and SC 200fly until that stain on the record books can finally be forgotten.