European Aquatics Championships:Men’s 50m freestyle final: Tom Fannon (6th)Women’s 50m breaststroke final: Mona McSharry (3rd)Women’s 200m butterfly final: Ellen Walshe (5.47pm)Women’s 4x100m medley relay final (7.02pm)European Athletics Championships:Women’s 1,500m final: Sarah Healy, Sophie O’Sullivan (9.13pm)Ellen Walshe goes in lane two, she gets a nice cheer from the ground when she’s introduced from the call room.Four lengths of the pool. Let’s see what Walshe has left in her after a golden week.Hungary’s Hubert Kos sets a championship record to take gold in the men’s 200m individual medley final ahead of Spain’s Hugo Gonzalez de Oliverira and neutral athlete Mikhail Shcherbakov, who sets a world junior record for bronze.Now we’re on to the women’s 200m butterfly final, Ellen Walshe in action here.What a finish from McSharry. A third medal at these championships; two bronze and a silver.Confirmation of the medals in the women’s 50m breaststroke:Ruta Meilutyte (Lithuania) – 29.93Benedetta Pilato (Italy) – 29.94Mona McSharry (Ireland) – 29.95They’re on the blocks and they’re off.Great dive from McSharry, she’s in contention at the 25-meter mark.BRONZE FOR MCSHARRY!Straight on to the women’s 50m breaststroke final. Mona McSharry’s in lane one.Does she have another medal in her..Amazing close to the race for Fannon, he was the fastest finisher of the lot.Confirmation of the medals:Nikita Sheremet (Ukraine) – 21.13Egor Kornev (NAB); Andrej Barna (Serbia) – both 21.37And they’re off.Fannon surfaces a bit early but goes hard to the finish.Sheremet powers home for gold.Tom Fannon finishes sixth for Ireland.Nikkita Sheremet from Ukraine was the fastest qualifier for the 50m final, he goes in lane four, his compatriot Vkadslav Bukhov on his should in lane three.Russian swimmer Egor Kornev, competing as a neutral athlete here, is another one to watch in lane five.The eight finalists are just being introduced to the crowd in Paris.Fannon’s event, the men’s 50m freestyle, is referred to as the ‘splash and dash’.It’s the swimming equivalent of the 100m sprint on the track, with the winner considered the fastest swimmer on earth. Just one length of the pool with no time to make up ground, their dive has to be perfect, and the aim is to complete the full 50 meters flat out without taking a breath.Australia’s Cameron McEvoy is the current world-record holder with his 20.88-second time set last year.For anyone who missed this morning’s action, Michael Scully has a wrap of the results here:[ European Aquatics Championships: Sunday morning session reportOpens in new window ]Tom Fannon is up first in the men’s 50m freestyle final, which is due off at 5.30pm.The 28-year-old qualified sixth-fastest overall from this morning’s semi-finals, putting him in lane seven for the final.Tom Fannon ahead of the men's 50m freestyle semi-final on Saturday. Photograph: Giorgio Scala/Inpho And so we go again. Good evening everyone, and welcome along to our last live blog of the European Athletics Championships in Birmingham and the European Aquatics Championships in Paris.Both meets wrap up tonight after a stellar week for Irish athletes. We’ll be taking you through the evening’s action in the pool and on the track, with some reaction to follow later from Ian O’Riordan and Michael Scully.Five Irish athletes are due to compete in individual events across the two championships later, and the Irish women’s 4x100m medley relay team will round out our involvement in Paris before we switch focus to Birmingham.Just because we like looking at it, here are the combined Irish medals from both meets so far:Ireland medal count (athletics & swimming)Gold x4: Ellen Walshe (Women’s 400m individual medley, Women’s 200m individual medley); Kate O’Connor (Women’s heptathlon); Mark English (Men’s 800m)Silver x2: Mona McSharry (Women’s 100m breaststroke); Rhasidat Adeleke (Women’s 200m)Bronze x2: Mona McSharry (Women’s 200m breaststroke); Andrew Coscoran (Men’s 1,500m)
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