Never in the long history of Irish athletics had three championship medals been won in such swift succession. Those 25 medals were shared among 16 different Irish athletes, plus the two team medals won at the European Cross-Country Championships in Portugal last Sunday. These also included a series of firsts, none more impressive than the first senior multi-event medals won by O’Connor in the pentathlon and heptathlon. The previous record for Irish athletes was the 14 medals won in 2019. Anna Gavigan also won silver in the women’s under-23 discus and Oisín Joyce won bronze in the under-23 javelin.

Source: The Irish Times December 21, 2025 09:01 UTC