{"id":40784,"date":"2025-09-24T14:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/40784\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:27:07","slug":"kate-oconnor-returns-home-after-historic-world-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/40784\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate O&#8217;Connor returns home after historic World silver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate O&#8217;Connor is back in Ireland following her historic silver medal at the World Athletics Championship in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Ms O\u2019Connor was greeted by family and friends as she arrived in Dublin Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old had initially planned to stay in Japan for another few weeks, but decided to cut her trip short to return home and recover from a knee injury she sustained while competing in the long jump.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"24 September 2025; Kate O'Connor of Ireland is greeted by her grandmother Madeline at Dublin Airport following her return from the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. Photo by Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0023375f-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nKate O&#8217;Connor with her grandmother Madeline at Dublin Airport<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"24 September 2025; Kate O'Connor of Ireland poses with her heptathlon silver medal at Dublin Airport following her return from the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. Photo by Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0023375d-614.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>She is the first Irish women to win a medal at a major championship in a multi-discipline event.<\/p>\n<p>She is the sixth World medallist for Ireland, following Eamonn Coghlan (gold, 1500m, 1983), Sonia O&#8217;Sullivan (gold, 5000m, 1995 and silver, 1500m, 1993), Gillian O&#8217;Sullivan (silver, 20km walk, 2003), Olive Loughnane (silver, 20km walk, 2009) and Rob Heffernan (gold, 50km walk, 2013).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kate O&#8217;Connor is back in Ireland following her historic silver medal at the World Athletics Championship in Tokyo.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-40784","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\/40784","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=40784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}