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ELLEN WALSHE HAS won her second gold medal at the European Aquatics Championships with a superb finish to the 200m individual medley.

The 24-year-old from Dublin backed up her 400m individual medley gold medal with a stunning final leg from lane one.  

It’s Ireland’s fourth medal, with Mona McSharry delivering the other pair, a silver and bronze in the 100m and 200m breaststroke.

It was a brilliantly paced race from Walshe, who was seventh of eight swimmers after the butterfly, turning 1.86 seconds behind Roos Vanotterdijk.

She climbed one place across both the backstroke and breaststroke legs, but had significantly squeezed the gap from 2.17 seconds to the Belgian at halfway to 1.02 seconds behind Britain’s Abbie Wood with 50 metres to swim.

Turning in fifth, she burned them all off in the final stretch. Her time of 2:09.81 was 0.26 seconds ahead of Italy’s Anita Gastaldi, with Vanotterdijk in third.

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Written by Stephen Barry and originally published on The 42 whose award-winning team produces original content that you won’t find anywhere else: on GAA, League of Ireland, women’s sport and boxing, as well as our game-changing rugby coverage, all with an Irish eye. Subscribe here.