Golden girl Bethany is star of championships

9 December 2015

PARALYMPIC champion Bethany Firth made a big splash at the Irish Short Course Championships at the weekend.

The 19 year-old Seaforde swimmer brought up her haul of individual titles at the championships to four on Sunday.

After earlier triumphs in the 100m freestyle, 50m freestyle and 100m individual medley on Saturday, Bethany (19) won the 50m butterfly at the Lisburn meeting.

She also helped her club Ards complete a clean sweep of women's relay titles at the event.

The popular Paralympic star also helped Ards set a new Irish record of 3:49.60 in the 4x100m freestyle relay.

Bethany, who won gold in the 100m backstroke at the London Paralympics in 2012 at the age of 16, won the 50m freestyle event in 26.30 seconds and the 100m individual medley in 1:03.51.

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