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Irish Examiner
4 days ago
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- Irish Examiner
Cathal Dennehy: The path to senior success does not run in a straight line
The trajectory is never straight, never simple. To achieve what Kate O'Connor and Sarah Healy have this year, vast talent is a prerequisite, but there's so much more to it. It's now six years since they won silver medals at European U-20 level – O'Connor in the heptathlon, Healy over 1500m. This is exclusive subscriber content. Already a subscriber? Sign in Take us with you this summer. Annual €130€65 Best value Monthly €12€6 / month
Yahoo
5 days ago
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O'Connor secures gold at World University Games
Kate O'Connor has won a gold medal in the women's heptathlon at the World University Games in Rhine-Ruhr in Germany. The Ireland athlete built up a total of 6487 points to break her own national record of 6297 which she set in 2021. The 24-year-old's new benchmark left her fourth in the world this year as she finished with a comfortable lead over Hungarian silver medallist Szabina Szucs (6081) and Australia's Emilia Surch, who clinched bronze at the University Games. The success continues an impressive year for the Dundalk-based athlete who collected bronze at the European Indoors at the Netherlands in March, then picked up a World Indoor silver in China. Newry-born O'Connor recorded a personal best time of 24.33 in the 200 metres on Wednesday to help take a healthy advantage into the final day of action on Thursday. The 2022 Commonwealth Games silver medallist followed that up with a mark of 6.15m in the long jump, a throw of 51.97 in the javelin and finally a PB of 2:10.46 as she finished second in the concluding event, the 800m.
BBC News
5 days ago
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- BBC News
O'Connor secures gold at World University Games
Kate O'Connor has won a gold medal in the women's heptathlon at the World University Games in Rhine-Ruhr in Ireland athlete built up a total of 6487 points to break her own national record of 6297 which she set in 24-year-old's new benchmark left her fourth in the world this year as she finished with a comfortable lead over Hungarian silver medallist Szabina Szucs (6081) and Australia's Emilia Surch, who clinched bronze at the University success continues an impressive year for the Dundalk-based athlete who collected bronze at the European Indoors at the Netherlands in March, then picked up a World Indoor silver in O'Connor recorded a personal best time of 24.33 in the 200 metres on Wednesday to help take a healthy advantage into the final day of action on 2022 Commonwealth Games silver medallist followed that up with a mark of 6.15m in the long jump, a throw of 51.97 in the javelin and finally a PB of 2:10.46 as she finished second in the concluding event, the 800m.
Irish Times
5 days ago
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- Irish Times
Kate O'Connor smashes Irish heptathlon record to strike gold at World University Games
Another groundbreaking display by Kate O'Connor has won her the heptathlon gold medal at the World University Games in the Rhine-Ruhr, Germany. The 24-year-old was in superb form in all seven events, smashing her own national record on her way to claiming a first multi-event medal for Ireland in the championships. Already 373 points clear going into the final event, O'Connor saved one of her best performances for last, finishing second in the 800m with a personal best of 2:10.46 to bring her points tally to 6487. That significantly improved on her previous record of 6297 set in 2021, this being her first heptathlon competition since twice breaking new ground in the indoor five-event pentathlon. Earlier this year O'Connor took bronze in the pentathlon at the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn and followed up with silver in the event at the World indoor stage in Nanjing, China. READ MORE Relishing the competition once again, the Dundalk woman set the pace on both days. Hungary's Szabina Szucs claimed the silver medal with 6081 points while Australia's Emilia Surch took bronze with 6068 points, both also personal bests among the 29 competitors. Ireland's Kate O'Connor during the javelin event in the heptathlon at the World University Games in Bochum, Germany. Photograph: Shauna Clinton/Sportsfile While gold medals have previously been won by Ireland in swimming and golf, this was only the fifth athletics gold won by an Irish athlete since World University Games were officially inaugurated in 1959. Ronnie Delany won gold over 800m in 1961, Niall Bruton and Sonia O'Sullivan over 1500m in 1991, and Thomas Barr in the 400m hurdles in 2015. After setting a personal best of 24.33 seconds in the 200m on Wednesday, O'Connor threw 51.87m in round one of the javelin on Thursday and cleared 6.15m in round one of the long jump. Only a collapse in the 800m would have denied her gold, and instead she made absolutely sure of it, improving her previous best of 2:11.42. An MA student in Communications and PR at Ulster University, O'Connor's indoor medals were the first senior medals won by any Irish athlete in a multi-event. She had already made a breakthrough in the women's heptathlon in winning European Under-20 silver in 2019 before becoming Ireland's first representative in the heptathlon at last year's Paris Olympics. The switch from the pentathlon – five events indoors spread across one day – to the heptathlon – seven events outdoors spread across two days – involved the addition of the 200m and the javelin, the latter being O'Connor's favourite event. Her next heptathlon will be the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in September.
RTÉ News
5 days ago
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- RTÉ News
Kate O'Connor delivers a gold medal at the World University Games
Kate O'Connor has won a gold medal in the women's heptathlon at the World University Games in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany. The Dundalk athlete amassed a total of 6487, breaking her own national record of 6297 she set back in 2021.
