A swimmer from Castlebar has has qualified for this year’s Olympic games in Rio.

Nicholas Quinn will join Fiona Doyle, Shane Ryan and Oliver Dingley at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on the Irish Swim Team having gone under the FINA (International Swimming Federation) Olympic A time in Eindhoven last night.

Nicholas swam an impressive 2:11.24 in the 200m breaststroke, almost half a second under the qualification time of 2:11.66.

The Castlebar native trains and studies at the University of Edinburgh, and progressed to the final in 2:13.27, just off his personal best of 2:13.04, but a commanding performance in the final saw him smash that time to claim Gold and a ticket to Rio.