Brendan Hyland has set a new Irish record, but narrowly missed out on Olympic qualification, at the World Swimming Championships in Gwangju today.
Hyland swam a time of one minute 56.55 seconds in placing sixth in his semi-final of the 200-metre butterfly.
However, he was seven-hundredths of a second outside the Tokyo qualifying mark.
Hyland will have another chance to make the grade at the Swim Ireland Olympic Trials in April of next year.
Darragh Greene also set a new Irish record today – this time in the 50-metre breaststroke heats – before finishing 4th in his semi-final and 10th overall.