I think it was going to be a big race with the girls tonight, it was a stacked field of fliers, so it was going to be about who had the better back end, you just have to hold on for the first 150m and then just try bring it home the last 50 and that's just what I did, I just kicked like hell,
The Templeogue star, who won silver in the 200m individual medley final on Saturday night, touched home first in a time of 2:03.24 ahead of Denmark's Helena Rosendahl Bach and Italy's Anita Gastaldi. Walshe will go for another medal tonight in the final of the 400m individual medley in what has proved to be a glittering week for Irish swimming with a haul of seven medals. Last Tuesday, Daniel Wiffen started Ireland's medal haul with bronze in the men's 400m freestyle final.