IRELAND’S KATE O’CONNOR is in the bronze medal position ahead of the final event of the pentathlon, the 800m (1.15pm Irish time), at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, on Friday.
European Indoor bronze medallist O’Connor jumped back-to-back PBs in the long jump to cement her medal prospects.
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The 24-year-old jumped a 6.30 followed by 6.32. This takes her to 3838 points overall – Finland’s Saga Vanninen, the European Indoor champion leads on 3932.
America’s Taliyah Brooks is second on 3841pts. O’Connor just three points behind the silver medal position.
Dundalk’s O’Connor opened her championships with a personal best of 8.30 seconds in the 60m hurdles, shaving another hundredth of a second off her previous best set at European Indoors a few weeks ago.
She followed that up with a confident 1.81m in the high jump, with Vanninen and America’s Timara Chapman both needing to produce PBs of their own to match her.
And O’Connor rounded out a real statement of intent with another big PB in the shot put where she threw 14.64 with her second attempt.
O’Connor returns to action later with the 800m (1.15pm Irish time), with coverage live on BBC Two.
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Kate O'Connor in bronze medal position ahead of last event at World Indoors
LAST UPDATE | 21 Mar
IRELAND’S KATE O’CONNOR is in the bronze medal position ahead of the final event of the pentathlon, the 800m (1.15pm Irish time), at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China, on Friday.
European Indoor bronze medallist O’Connor jumped back-to-back PBs in the long jump to cement her medal prospects.
The 24-year-old jumped a 6.30 followed by 6.32. This takes her to 3838 points overall – Finland’s Saga Vanninen, the European Indoor champion leads on 3932.
America’s Taliyah Brooks is second on 3841pts. O’Connor just three points behind the silver medal position.
Dundalk’s O’Connor opened her championships with a personal best of 8.30 seconds in the 60m hurdles, shaving another hundredth of a second off her previous best set at European Indoors a few weeks ago.
She followed that up with a confident 1.81m in the high jump, with Vanninen and America’s Timara Chapman both needing to produce PBs of their own to match her.
And O’Connor rounded out a real statement of intent with another big PB in the shot put where she threw 14.64 with her second attempt.
O’Connor returns to action later with the 800m (1.15pm Irish time), with coverage live on BBC Two.
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