Longford’s Gerry Quinn is in-line to join Darragh Greene at this summer’s Olympic Games.
Quinn was part of the Irish men’s 4x200m freestyle relay team which has been invited to compete at this summer’s Olympics’ along with Greene’s 4x100m Medley Relay team.
The Men’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay set two new Irish Senior Records en route to their invite, finishing with 7:12.00 at the LEN European Aquatics Championships in Budapest last month.
The Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay set a new standard of 3:34.62 in the Budapest heats, with both times proving to be historic in earning Ireland their first Olympic relay invites since 1972.
On the Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay Shane Ryan, Darragh Greene and Brendan Hyland train at the National Centre (Dublin) under Swim Ireland’s National Senior Team Head Coach Ben Higson.
Jack McMillan, who swam on both relays at the European Championships, trains with Men’s 4x200m Freestyle Relay teammate Jordan Sloan at Bangor Swimming Club under Coach Paul Dennis.
Gerry Quinn, who was part of the Men's 4x200m team also trains at the National Centre (Dublin) under Higson, whilst Freestyle team-mate Finn McGeever trains at the National Centre (Limerick) under the Centre’s Head Coach John Szaranek.
Final team selection for Tokyo 2021 for these relays will be made at a later date.
