After last year’s success Dundalk athlete looks to improve and compete with pentathlon queen Anna Hall at World Indoors in Poland
Kate O’Connor: “I will be turning up fighting for the gold. If I don’t turn up with that mindset, then it’ll never happen.”
The task is just the same, but this year feels different – in various ways. For starters, Kate O’Connor is now a full-time athlete, having completed her studies at Ulster University, with more time and energy freed up to devote to mastering the multi-events.
But the underdog status she enjoyed in 2025, that shock factor she unleashed in Apeldoorn, Nanjing and Tokyo? That’s gone. When the 25-year-old takes to the track in Torun, Poland, at the World Indoor Championships next Sunday, the attention will be inescapable.