Paris 2024: Ellen Walshe fails to progress from 100m butterfly heats

Ellen Walshe failed to progress from the 100m butterfly heats, finishing seventh in her heat in a time of 58.70 seconds.

The swimming at Paris 2024 got underway today at La Defense Arena, with Walshe going in the second heat of the 100m butterfly.

Ranked seventh in the race, she swam strongly to finish sixth, 2.2 seconds behind the winner, Yufei Zhang of China, who was the fastest qualifier overall.

Walsh was 22nd out of 32 competitors in an event that she wouldn't consider her speciality. She will swim in her favoured 200m and 400m individual medleys later in the week.

The women's 4x100m freestyle team of Danielle Hill, Victoria Catterson, Erin O’Riordan and Grace Davidson go in their heat at 11.15pm.

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