Kate O’Connor claimed the bronze medal in the pentathlon on 4781 points at the European Indoor Championships in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands.
The Newry-born athlete needed a strong finish in the final event, the 800 metres, and went on to win the race with a national record time.
O’Connor got off to a flying start this morning, smashing her lifetime best in the 60m hurdles with 8.31, and she followed it up with an even more impressive high jump, soaring over another PB of 1.84m to put herself firmly in the medal hunt. In the shot put that followed, she was close to her indoor PB of 14.42m, throwing 14.32m in the second round.
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