{"id":597869,"date":"2026-07-22T03:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/597869\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T03:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:16:11","slug":"madeleine-mccanns-brother-sean-to-swim-for-scotland-at-commonwealth-games-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/597869\/","title":{"rendered":"Madeleine McCann\u2019s brother Sean to swim for Scotland at Commonwealth Games \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/madeleine-mccann\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/madeleine-mccann\/\">Madeleine McCann<\/a>\u2019s younger brother Sean has been selected to represent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/scotland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/scotland\">Scotland<\/a> at the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sean McCann was just two-years-old when his sister disappeared shortly before her fourth birthday during a holiday in Praia da Luz, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/portugal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/portugal\">Portugal<\/a>, in 2007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The promising 21-year-old swimmer is expected to compete in a number of longer-distance freestyle swimming events at the Games, which start on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">And ambitious McCann hopes the Games, with swimming taking place at Tollcross International Centre, will propel him into contention for a place in the Great Britain team for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A Loughborough University student, Sean McCann previously represented Scotland at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Tobago in 2023, where he finished fifth in the 400m freestyle event. His twin sister Amelia is also a high-level swimmer and triathlete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Speaking on the Joe Humphries Memorial Trust website, McCann said: \u201cI started competitive sport when I was eight, joining Charnwood triathlon club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cIt was here that I discovered my passion for swimming and I joined Loughborough Town swimming club to increase the number of swim sessions I did per week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cAt the age of 10, I was selected to swim at City of Leicester and I have since gone on to win multiple county titles as well as becoming regional and national champion in my age group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cIn order to have achieved this, I have had to remain extremely dedicated, getting up at 4am multiple mornings each week to train, since the age of 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cI train nine times a week in the pool, as well as three gym sessions, totalling over 20 hours of training per week. I\u2019m aiming to compete at the 2026 Commonwealth Games and also the 2028 Olympics in LA.\u201d \u2013 PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madeleine McCann\u2019s younger brother Sean has been selected to represent Scotland at the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,45880,9714,6642,23550,132,10905],"class_list":["post-597869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-madeleine-mccann","tag-olympic-games","tag-portugal","tag-scotland","tag-sports","tag-swimming"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116961462579498069","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}