{"id":75166,"date":"2025-09-20T11:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T11:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/75166\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T11:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T11:22:07","slug":"kate-oconnor-in-silver-medal-position-ahead-of-final-800m-run-at-world-championships-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/75166\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate O\u2019Connor in silver medal position ahead of final 800m run at World Championships \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kate O\u2019Connor<\/a> is now starting to dream out loud after moving clear in the silver medal position after the javelin throw in the heptathlon at the World Championships<\/a> in Tokyo.<\/p>\n

In the sixth of the seven events, O\u2019Connor once again improved her lifetime best to 53.06 metres \u2013 the best javelin throw of the lot at the National Stadium, with only the 800 metres to come (1.11pm Irish time).<\/p>\n

It was her fourth personal best in the six events so far, O\u2019Connor improving her own previous best of 52.92. The 24-year-old from Dundalk now only has to stay upright in the 800m to close out her medal hunt, her podium place now visibly within reach.<\/p>\n

She passed on her third throw, saving all her energy for the 800m to ensure she seals that silver medal.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0In pictures: Kate O\u2019Connor\u2019s heptathlon medal bid at World ChampionshipsOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Anna Hall from the US continues to lead the way on 5,865 points, after throwing a javelin person best of 48.13m. O\u2019Connor sits in silver on 5,743 points, with Taliyah Brooks also from the US third on 5,662 points.<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s defending champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson has dropped to fourth, only managing a best of 41.91m, while three-time Olympic champion Nafi Thiam of Belgium pulling out ahead of day two.<\/p>\n

\" Kate O\u2019Connor in action in the women\u2019s heptathlon long jump at the World Athletics Championships. Photograph: Morgan Treacy\/Inpho <\/p>\n

O\u2019Connor came into day two in the silver medal position before taking on the long jump in Saturday\u2019s morning session. Not one of her strongest events, she produced a best jump of 6.22m, which earned her 918 points. <\/p>\n

O\u2019Connor fouled her first attempt and jumped 6.17m in the second, before improving further in her final attempt.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m pretty happy with that,\u201d said O\u2019Connor. \u201cSolid is the word I would use, it wasn\u2019t great, but it wasn\u2019t too bad. I think I had a really good first jump and I just broke slightly. My run up was a little bit all over the place but to get a half decent jump in, I\u2019m happy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe nerves go from zero to 100. If you foul on the second you\u2019re in a pickle. It was really important to get that second jump in and then it was nice to get a couple of extra centimetres in the third. I\u2019m looking forward to this evening.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Irish athletes\u2019 performance at World Championships allows us to dream againOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Cian McPhillips and the women\u2019s 4x400m relay team are also competing in the penultimate session. McPhillips goes into the men\u2019s 800m final at 2:22pm, having become the first Irishman to reach a final of a global outdoor championship in this event. <\/p>\n

The women\u2019s relay will look to seal a place in their final when they race in heat two at 12:11pm.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Cian McPhillips profile: The Longford athlete who has made history in 800m at World ChampionshipsOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kate O\u2019Connor is now starting to dream out loud after moving clear in the silver medal position after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,10889,132,9715],"class_list":{"0":"post-75166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-kate-o-connor","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-world-athletics-championships"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}