By now it’s become habitual, but that shouldn’t diminish the scale of what Kate O’Connor is achieving. At the World Indoor Championships in Torun, Poland, the 25-year-old Dundalk athlete claimed another multi-events medal for Ireland on the global stage, winning bronze in the women’s pentathlon. Gold went to Sofie Dokter of the Netherlands with 4888 points, with US world heptathlon champion Anna Hall second with 4860. The medal for O’Connor follows the bronze she won at last year’s European Indoors, silver at the World Indoors, gold at the World University Games and silver at the Tokyo World Championships. In the long jump, she opened with a foul, heaping the pressure on her second jump, which was a safe and solid 6.17m.

Source: Irish Examiner March 22, 2026 19:32 UTC