Ellen Walshe Resets Own Irish Record With 2:10.49 To Make Worlds Final

2025 World Championships

• July 27 – August 3, 2025 (pool swimming)
• Singapore, Singapore
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  • Prelims: Day 1
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Women’s 200 IM — Semifinals

• World Record: 2:05.70 — Summer McIntosh, CAN (2025)
• World Junior Record: 2:06.56 — Summer McIntosh, CAN (2024)
• Championship Record: 2:06.12 — Katinka Hosszu, HUN (2015)
• 2023 World Champion: 2:07.17 — Kate Douglass, USA
• 2024 Olympic Champion: 2:06.56 — Summer McIntosh, CAN

Top 8 Qualifiers:

1. Summer McIntosh (CAN) – 2:07.39
2. Alex Walsh (USA) – 2:08.49
3. Mio Narita (JPN)- 2:09.16
4. Anastasia Gorbenko (ISR) – 2:09.68
5. Abbie Wood (GBR) – 2:10.12
6. Mary-Sophie Harvey – 2:10.19
7. Yu Zidi (CHN) – 2:10.22
8. Ellen Walshe (IRE) – 2:10.49

Ellen Walshe of Ireland broke her own National Record in the women’s 200 IM during semifinals, clocking a 2:10.49. The 23 year old broke her own record of a 2:10.92 that she swam during semifinals of the 2023 World Championships in Fukuoka for 9th place.

Split Comparison

The biggest difference today was the freestyle leg. Although she was a bit faster on the butterfly leg, her backstroke leg was slower. She ended having more left on the final 50 and charged home 0.44 seconds faster on the freestyle leg.

Walshe holds five individual and one relay long course meters (LCM) Irish National Records. She also holds the 200 free, 100 fly, 200 fly, 400 IM, and was a member of the country’s record setting women’s 4×100 medley relay. She also is set to compete in the 200 fly and 400 IM this week in Singapore. She notably is the #6 seed in the 400 IM and made the Olympic final of the event last summer finishing 8th.

She will have a chance tomorrow night in the final to break tonight’s record.