Mona McSharry

Mona McSharry is an Irish competitive swimmer. She is a two-time Olympian and won the bronze medal in the [Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics|2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre breaststroke|100 metre breaststroke] at the 2024 Summer Olympics. McSharry is also a World Championships (25m) and European Short Course Championships bronze medalist, a junior world champion and a two-time junior European champion.
McSharry is the holder of multiple national senior records, including 50 m, 100 m and 200 m breaststroke in both long course and short course, and 100 m individual medley in short course.

Career

McSharry won her first international medals when she placed second in the 100 m breaststroke and third in the 50 m breaststroke at the 2016 European Junior Championships. In 2017, she won the 50 m breaststroke and 100 m breaststroke events, and placed second in the 200 breaststroke at the European Junior Championships in Netanya. In August of that year, she won the 100 m breaststroke event and finished third in the 50 m breaststroke at the World Junior Championships in Indianapolis.
McSharry won the bronze medal in the 50 m breaststroke at the 2019 European Short Course Championships in Glasgow. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, finishing eight in the 100 metre breaststroke event, and won the bronze medal in the 100 m breastroke at the 2021 World Championships (25 m). On 29 July 2024, McSharry won the bronze medal in the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

McSharry grew up in Grange, County Sligo. In 2019, McSharry and her family competed in the seventh series of the popular RTÉ reality competition, Ireland's Fittest Family. They won the competition under the guidance of mentor, former rugby player, Donncha O'Callaghan.