Mona McSharry
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| Full name | Mona McSharry | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Irish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 August 2000 Grange, County Sligo, Ireland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Breaststroke | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Mona McSharry (born 21 August 2000) is an Irish competitive swimmer. She is a two-time Olympian and won the bronze medal in the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2024 Summer Olympics.[1][2][3][4] McSharry is also a World Championships (25m) and European Short Course Championships bronze medalist, a junior world champion and a two-time junior European champion.
McSharry is the holder of multiple national senior records, including 50 m, 100 m and 200 m breaststroke in both long course and short course, and 100 m individual medley in short course.[5]
McSharry won her first international medals when she placed second in the 100 m breaststroke and third in the 50 m breaststroke at the 2016 European Junior Championships. In 2017, she won the 50 m breaststroke and 100 m breaststroke events, and placed second in the 200 breaststroke at the European Junior Championships in Netanya. In August of that year, she won the 100 m breaststroke event and finished third in the 50 m breaststroke at the World Junior Championships in Indianapolis.[6]
McSharry won the bronze medal in the 50 m breaststroke at the 2019 European Short Course Championships in Glasgow.[7] She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, finishing eight in the 100 metre breaststroke event, and won the bronze medal in the 100 m breastroke at the 2021 World Championships (25 m).[8][9] On 29 July 2024, McSharry won the bronze medal in the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.[10][4]
| Year | 100m
Breast |
200m
Breast |
4 × 100m
medley relay |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 8th | — | — |
| 2024 |  |
11th | 11th (h) |
| Year | 50m
Breast |
100m
Breast |
200m
Breast |
4x100m
Free Relay |
4x100m
medley relay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | — | 24th | — | — | — |
| 2021 (25m) | 4th | |
7th | — | — |
| 2023 | 11th | 5th | 15th | 15th | 13th |
| 2024 | 8th | 5th | 5th | — | — |
| 2025 | 11th | DNS |
Personal life
McSharry grew up in Grange, County Sligo.[11] In 2019, McSharry and her family competed in the seventh series of the popular RTÉ reality competition, Ireland's Fittest Family.[12] They won the competition under the guidance of mentor, former rugby player, Donncha O'Callaghan.[13]
