{"id":14067,"date":"2026-04-27T17:58:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=14067"},"modified":"2026-04-27T17:58:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:58:33","slug":"kate-oconnor-i-dont-know-what-the-limit-is-for-me-heptathlete-kate-oconnor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=14067","title":{"rendered":"Kate O’Connor: ‘I don’t know what the limit is for me’ – heptathlete Kate O’Connor"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Reflecting on her performances in Poland, where she set a new Irish record score of 4,839 points, O’Connor still felt a sense of disappointment with the colour of the medal she ended with.<\/p>\n

“I did go in wanting to win the competition. Now, I’m very satisfied with the score because I got better than last year,” she explained.<\/p>\n

“I’d be lying if I told you I was satisfied with the bronze, because I’m not. I want to win golds and when I go into the competition when I’m the shape to do it and I don’t do it, it’s disappointing and I don’t think it’s something I should get over, it’s something I should make sure it doesn’t happen next time. <\/p>\n

“Overall, I was happy with the score, new national record and I was dealing with things I wasn’t last year, like pressure and body issues [Achilles and knee niggles], so it’s exciting for outdoor season. I want to continue building.”<\/p>\n

With her Achilles and reoccurring knee problems behind her for now, O’Connor is looking forward to throwing the javelin pain free and has her eyes set on breaking another record.<\/p>\n

“Last season, I was throwing so well in training and had made so much progression and I threw a PB on a knee that I shouldn’t have really been able to throw with [in the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo in which she won silver].<\/p>\n

“I would love to break the national record. That’s been a goal of mine for a long time and I think it’s very attainable.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Reflecting on her performances in Poland, where she set a new Irish record score of 4,839 points, O’Connor still felt a sense of disappointment with the colour of the medal she ended with. “I did go in wanting to win the competition. Now, I’m very satisfied with the score because I got better than last<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}