{"id":32767,"date":"2025-09-20T12:56:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T12:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/32767\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T12:56:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T12:56:06","slug":"kate-oconnor-wins-silver-medal-for-ireland-in-heptathlon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/32767\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate O&#8217;Connor wins silver medal for Ireland in heptathlon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland&#8217;s Kate O&#8217;Connor has won silver in the heptathlon at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Connor finished with 6,714 points, behind US athlete Anna Hall.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud835\udc0c\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc2c\ud835\udc2c\ud835\udc22\ud835\udc2f\ud835\udc1e \ud835\udc2b\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc2c\ud835\udc2e\ud835\udc25\ud835\udc2d!! \ud83d\udcaa<\/p>\n<p>Kate O\u2019Connor (Dundalk St. Gerard\u2019s AC) delivers her fourth personal best of these championships with a huge javelin throw of 53.06m in the Women\u2019s Heptathlon in Tokyo \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connor gains 919 points to move to 5743 points and second place overall\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WG6SmyHZKK\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/WG6SmyHZKK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Athletics Ireland (@irishathletics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/irishathletics\/status\/1969352423983497465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Olympic champion Nafi Thiam decided to withdraw from the competition, where she had been sitting eighth.<\/p>\n<p>Another Irish medal hopeful, Cian McPhillips, contests the 800-metres final at around 2.20pm.<\/p>\n<p>While the women&#8217;s 4&#215;400 metre relay team failed to get out of their heats this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The team of Sophie Becker, Cliodhna Manning, Rachel McCann and Sharlene Mawdsley finished eighth and won&#8217;t progress to the final.<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s Kate O&#8217;Connor has won silver in the heptathlon at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. O&#8217;Connor finished&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-32767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}