Paris 2024: Ní Riain rounds off Games with another fourth place finish

Róisín Ní Riain has rounded off a memorable 2024 Paralympic Games with fourth place in her 100m breaststroke event, coming home in 1:19.16.

The Limerick teenager had already won silver in the SB13 100m backstroke and bronze in the 200m individual medley.

Great Britain's Rebecca Redfern, the fastest of this morning's qualifiers, showed her supremacy by taking gold in 1:16.02.

Ni Riain, whose PB from victory in the 2024 European Para Swimming Championships in in Portugal is two seconds slower than Redfern’s winning time, was always more likely to be challenging for silver or bronze.

She was the quickest of all eight finalists off the blocks, but Redfern soon imposed herself over the opening 50 metres, with Olivia Chambers of the United States her closest challenger.

Colleen Young and Ni Riain were locked in a battle for third, with the pair touching the wall at the same time.

It was the American however that was able to dig deeper coming down the stretch to claim bronze, finishing 0.6 of a second ahead of Ni Riain for her second fourth-place finish of the Games to accompany silver and bronze.

The Drombanna woman couldn’t hide her disappointment at missing out on a third podium placing.

"I always have expectations of myself," she told RTÉ Sport. "I know what I’m capable of and I’m definitely capable of more than that swim there.

"I definitely had a very bad finish but it is all learning.

"Every time I get out to race, there’s something to learn. That’s why I love racing so much."

Having contributed two of Team Ireland’s current tally of five medals, the University of Limerick student is able to acknowledge all she has achieved in the French capital.

"It’s all part of it, the good swims and the bad.

"Coming here and getting two medals,