By Sam Blacker on SwimSwam
2025 WORLD AQUATICS SWIMMING WORLD CUP – Toronto
- October 23-25, 2025
- Toronto, Canada
- SCM (25 meters)
- Meet Central
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
- Recaps
Women’s 50 Breaststroke — Final
- World Record: 28.37 — Ruta Meilutyte, Lithuania (2022)
- World Junior Record: 28.81 — Benedetta Pilato, Italy (2020)
- World Cup Record: 28.56 — Alia Atkinson, Jamaica (2018)
Top 8 Finishers
- Florine Gaspard (BEL) – 29.48
- Mona McSharry (IRL) – 29.58
- Satomi Suzuki (JPN) – 29.90
- Alexanne Lepage (CAN) – 30.00
- Sophie Angus (CAN) – 30.12
- Skyler Smith (USA) – 30.14
- Maria Ramos Najji (ESP) – 30.18
- Laura Lahtinen (FIN) – 30.87
Women’s 200 IM — Final
- World Record: 2:01.63 — Kate Douglass, United States (2024)
- World Junior Record: 2:04.48 — Yu Yiting, China (2021)
- World Cup Record: 2:02.13 — Katinka Hosszu, Hungary (2014)
- Triple Crown Contender: Alex Walsh (USA)
Top 8 Finishers
- Alex Walsh (USA)- 2:04.01
- Ellen Walshe (IRL)- 2:04.75
- Abbie Wood (GBR)- 2:05.33
- Roos Vanotterdijk (BEL)- 2:05.81
- Rebecca Meder (RSA)- 2:05.83
- Ella Ramsay (AUS)- 2:06.38
- Freya Colbert (GBR)- 2:07.08
- Mio Narita (JPN)- 2:07.50
Mona McSharry and Ellen Walshe, two stars of Irish swimming right now, both closed out their world Cup campaigns with a new Irish record. They each took the silver medal in their respective event tonight, and set a new best time.
McSharry set the first of the night, shaving a hundredth of a second from her previous standard with a swim of 29.58. She was 29.59 at both the 2021 Short Course World Championships and last week in Westmont, but made the most of a faster first 25 this week.
Walshe closed out the session with her third Irish record in three swims in Toronto, adding the 200 IM to the 400 IM and 200 fly marks she had set on Days 1 and 2. Both of those had been broken by herself last week, while the 200 IM was a longer-standing record – albeit only from last December.
She had swum a time of 2:05.52 in Budapest at the Short Course World Championships, placing 5th, but took three-quarters of a second off that time tonight.
She was out significantly slower on the fly tonight, but was pretty much even with her record pace at halfway. Tonight’s freestyle leg was the main reason for the time drop, as she closed in 29.27 compared to 29.87.
Split Comparison
| 2024 – Short Course World Championships | 2025 – World Cup, Toronto Stop | |
| 50 | 26.94 | 27.61 |
| 100 | 59.12 (32.18) | 59.07 (31.46) |
| 150 | 1:35.65 (36.53) | 1:35.48 (36.41) |
| 200 | 2:05.52 (29.87) | 2:04.75 (29.27) |
Her final 50 tonight was the fastest in the field, and she was the only swimmer to close under 30 seconds. That saw her rise from 6th at the 150m mark to place 2nd, as she made full use of her underwaters to beat out Brit Abbie Wood for the silver medal.
She now ranks 15th all-time in the event, and is in the top-15 in both the 200 IM (#15) and 400 IM (#8) in short course.
McSharry and Walshe have each now set six national records at the World Cup this year. Together with Lottie Cullen, there have been 13 new national records in just over two weeks.
Mona McSharry‘s Irish Records, 2025 World Cup Tour
- 200 breast – Carmel – 2:19.95
- 200 breast – Westmont – 2:19.29
- 50 breast – Westmont – 29.59
- 200 breast – Toronto – 2:18.27
- 100 breast – Toronto – 1:03.84
- 50 breast – Toronto – 29.58
Ellen Walshe‘s Irish Records, 2025 World Cup Tour
- 200 fly – Carmel – 2:05.08
- 200 fly – Westmont – 2:04.27
- 400 IM – Westmont – 4:25.33
- 200 fly – Toronto – 2:02.36
- 400 IM – Toronto – 4:22.97
- 200 IM – Toronto – 2:04.75
Lottie Cullen‘s Irish Records, 2025 World Cup Tour
- 100 back – Toronto – 57.31
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