Aisling Cooney

Aisling Cooney
Personal information
Full name Aisling Margaret Cooney
National team  Ireland
Born (1990-07-27) 27 July 1990
Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 65 kg (143 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Backstroke
College team ESB Swimming Club
Coach Bill McCarthy

Aisling Margaret Cooney (born July 27, 1990) is an Irish swimmer, who specialized in backstroke events.[1] She represented her nation Ireland at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and has currently owned two Irish national records in both the 50 and 100 m backstroke.[2] Cooney also trained for ESB Swimming Club in Dublin under the tutelage of head coach Bill McCarthy.[3]

Cooney competed, as a 17-year-old teen, for the Irish team in the women's 100 m backstroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She smashed a national record of 1:02.24 for a blazing top finish at the Irish Long Course Championships three months earlier in Dublin, just half a second away from the FINA A-cut (1:01.70).[3][4] Swimming on the outside lane in heat four, Cooney touched behind the leader Julia Wilkinson of Canada at the halfway turn, but faded down the stretch to round out the field in dead-last with a hapless 1:02.50. Cooney failed to advance to the semifinals, as she finished thirty-first overall out of 49 swimmers in the prelims.[5][6]

References

  1. ↑ "Aisling Cooney". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  2. ↑ "Irish Long Course Nationals: Hannah Miley Keeps Winning, Andrew Meegan Wins Barnburner". Swimming World Magazine. 30 April 2010. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  3. 1 2 O'Driscoll, Mark (5 May 2008). "Swimming: Rising star Cooney aims for Olympic qualification". Irish Independent. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  4. ↑ "Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 100m Backstroke" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 62. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  5. ↑ "Swimming: Women's 100m Backstroke Heat 4". Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  6. ↑ O'Riordan, Ian (11 August 2008). "Cooney positive in defeat". The Irish Times. Retrieved 5 April 2016.

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