Kate O'Connor

Kate is Ireland’s first heptathlete to compete at the Olympic Games, and only our second ever female multi-eventer after Margaret Murphy who competed in the pentathlon in 1972. Her big breakthrough was a European Junior (U20) silver in 2019 when she was still only 18, becoming the first and only Irish woman to exceed 6000 points. She followed that with silver in the 2022 Commonwealth Games, was 13th on her World Championship debut in 2023, and last month clocked up her second highest points total (6244) despite carrying an injury at the time.