Ireland’s Kate O’Connor is in the silver medal position with only one heptathlon event remaining at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
Heading into the final 800-metre race, O’Connor has 5,743 points, behind the American Anna Hall.
𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭!! 💪
Kate O’Connor (Dundalk St. Gerard’s AC) delivers her fourth personal best of these championships with a huge javelin throw of 53.06m in the Women’s Heptathlon in Tokyo 👏
O’Connor gains 919 points to move to 5743 points and second place overall… pic.twitter.com/WG6SmyHZKK
— Athletics Ireland (@irishathletics) September 20, 2025
Taliyah Brooks is in third place, while Britain’s Katerina Johnson-Thompson sits in fourth place.
Olympic champion Nafi Thiam decided to withdraw from the competition, where she had been sitting eighth.
Thiam’s pre-championship build-up had been marred by a row with her federation.
She told Belgian newspaper DH Les Sports+: “It was difficult from the beginning. I tried to fight, to go through these difficulties, but clearly it does not follow. I have trouble explaining it myself.
“Clearly my body is not happy. I don’t want to do anything stupid, because I think that now, finishing would be for the principle.”