Kate the Great ready to take on the world

By Paul Byrne

DunDalk’s kate O’Connor is ready to take on the world after beginning 2023 in sensational style with a record-breaking performance at the World Indoor Tour event in Clermont, France. The st Gerard’s aC athlete smashed the Irish indoor pentathlon record claiming a points total of 4,396 which surpassed the previous national record set by Grace Mckenzie in Birmingham in 2019. O’Connor’s score earned her third place across two days of competition in France.

kate is better known for her exploits in the heptathlon having claimed a brilliant silver medal at the Commonwealth Games last year which was followed by a joyous homecoming last august outside her home in Belfry Gardens as proud parents Michael (who is also kate’s coach) and Valerie and sister Maeve watched on.

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