"Kate O'Connor made a flying start to the heptathlon at the World Championships in Tokyo today, the Dundalk athlete powering to a huge lifetime best in the 100m hurdles, coming home third in her heat in 13.44. That smashed her previous best of 13.57 and puts her a whopping 65 points ahead of her tally after one event when she set the Irish heptathlon record in July, when she opened with a time of 13.89 in the hurdles."
"O'Connor has already bagged three medals this year: pentathlon bronze at the European Indoors, silver at the World Indoors and heptathlon gold at the World University Games. "I'm happy with everything," she said earlier this week of her preparations. "It's trying to hold my form as long as we can and I'm looking forward to getting out and getting started. "I've had the year from dreams. This competition is just like a bonus. Let's go out and see what I can do.""
Kate O'Connor began the heptathlon with a lifetime-best 13.44 in the 100m hurdles, finishing third in her heat. The time improved her personal best from 13.57 and left her 65 points better off than after the opening event when she set the Irish heptathlon record in July. She finished behind Jade O'Dowda (13.34) and Katarina Johnson-Thompson (13.44). Olympic champion Nafi Thiam recorded a season's best 13.61 for fifth. O'Connor will next contest the high jump, then the shot put and 200m, and she has already won three medals this year.
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