IAAF World Indoor Championships: O’Connor took bronze in the world indoor pentathlon

Ireland’s Kate O’Connor won a bronze medal in the pentathlon at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Poland.

The silver medalist from last year’s championships set a national record for points this year at 4,839.

Dutch Sophie Docter scored 4,888 points to win, and American Anna Hall won the silver medal with a total of 4,860 points.

The 25-year-old finished fourth in the competition’s opening race – the 60m hurdles – after finishing fifth in her heat with a time of 8.23 ​​seconds.

O’Connor, who also won silver at the World Championships in Tokyo in 2025, cleared a distance of 1.81 meters after two failures in the high jump to tie for third place in the overall standings before setting a personal best of 14.70 meters in the shot put.

The Newry native has 2,909 points after three events, with Docter leading the standings with 2,943 points and Hall in second with 2,926 points.

Docter extended her lead in the long jump, while a jump of 6.38m moved O’Connor into second place overall with 3,878 points.

In the 800 metres, she finished second and set a personal best but finished third overall after Hall won the race in an impressive time of 2:06:32 to leapfrog O’Connor for the silver medal.