Kate O'Connor in silver medal position with only one heptathlon event remaining
By Rachel Steinberg, PA, Tokyo
Ireland's Kate O'Connor is in the silver medal position with only one heptathlon event remaining at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
Heading into the final 800-metre race, O'Connor has 5,743 points, behind the American Anna Hall.
𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭!! 💪
Kate O’Connor (Dundalk St. Gerard’s AC) delivers her fourth personal best of these championships with a huge javelin throw of 53.06m in the Women’s Heptathlon in Tokyo 👏
O’Connor gains 919 points to move to 5743 points and second place overall… pic.twitter.com/WG6SmyHZKK
— Athletics Ireland (@irishathletics) September 20, 2025
Taliyah Brooks is in third place, while Britain's Katerina Johnson-Thompson sits in fourth place.
Olympic champion Nafi Thiam decided to withdraw from the competition, where she had been sitting eighth.
Thiam’s pre-championship build-up had been marred by a row with her federation.
She told Belgian newspaper DH Les Sports+: “It was difficult from the beginning. I tried to fight, to go through these difficulties, but clearly it does not follow. I have trouble explaining it myself.
“Clearly my body is not happy. I don’t want to do anything stupid, because I think that now, finishing would be for the principle.”
