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 went out hard and touched behind the leader Julia Wilkinson of Canada at the halfway turn, but despite giving it everything that she had, faded down the stretch to round out the field in a respectable 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]
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^Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. . Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
^"Irish Long Course Nationals: Hannah Miley Keeps Winning, Andrew Meegan Wins Barnburner". Swimming World Magazine. 30 April 2010. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
^ abO'Driscoll, Mark (5 May 2008). "Swimming: Rising star Cooney aims for Olympic qualification". Irish Independent. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
^"Olympic Cut Sheet – Women's 100m Backstroke" (PDF). Swimming World Magazine. p. 62. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
^. Beijing 2008. NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 21 August 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
^O'Riordan, Ian (11 August 2008). "Cooney positive in defeat". The Irish Times. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
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