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An Olympic athlete, Rob Heffernan is well used to gruelling training sessions. Nothing though, prepared him for rehearsals for Dancing with the Stars, he tells Esther McCarthy.            

Heffernan also took the Endurance award.

World champion, Olympic medallist, husband, father, and coach — for Rob Heffernan, there seems little left to accomplish, but the 39-year-old will nonetheless take to the start line in London tomorrow morning desperate for a medal in what will likely be his last hurrah as a race walker. Can he rescue a mediocre world championships for the Irish?

An 11-person Irish team has been named for next month’s World Athletics Championships in London.

He has finally collected his Olympic medal but Rob Heffernan remains as committed to improvement as ever as he vows to ‘go to war’ one last time. He just wishes people wouldn’t take it so personally when he pushes to raise standards for all Irish athletes.

Olympic hero Rob Heffernan has hit out at his sport’s governing body in Ireland for failing to support his dream of establishing a race walking academy in his native city.

Good man Rob!

Olympic hero Rob Heffernan has spoken about how his career hung in the balance after a doping test conducted moments after he woke from hip surgery produced an adverse result writes Eoin English

Olympic hero Rob Heffernan has spoken about how his career hung in the balance after a doping test conducted moments after he woke from hip surgery produced an adverse result.

In Cork tonight Rob Heffernan was presented with his bronze medal from the 2012 Olympics in London.

It’s his final shot, and he knows it. Rob Heffernan may have an Olympic bronze medal to his name — at least that’s what the record books say — but he has yet to lay his hands on it.

If there’s one thing we know about our Olympic hopefuls, it’s that we don’t know all that much.

It may have come four years late but Cork’s world champion race walker Rob Heffernan is now finally an Olympic medallist.

Heffernan is poised to earn further delayed recognition with another Russian, Sergey Kirdyapkin, expected to be stripped of his 2012 Olympic 50k gold medal by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

World champion walker Rob Heffernan has said he is “dreaming” amid reports that he may be upgraded to Olympic bronze following the doping scandal that has engulfed world athletics.

Rob Heffernan’s defence of the men’s 50m walk world title saw him finish fifth at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing.

Barr won his fifth national 400-metre Hurdles title on Day 2 of the Senior Track and Field Championships.

Three years ago, he crossed the finish line at the London Olympics but the race hasn’t ended.

The next few weeks are vital for Rob Heffernan’s season, as he bids to forget recent surgeries and prepare to defend his world championship title in the 50km Walk.

As the runners taking part in the Cork City Marathon begin to cross the finish line, here’s a selection of images and videos from the day’s events.

Ireland’s World Champion walker Rob Heffernan had another reason to celebrate yesterday when his wife, Marian, gave birth to a baby girl.

If anyone is looking to send a letter of congratulations to Rob Heffernan, it seems you don’t even need his address — just pop “Gold Medal Winner” on the envelope and An Post will get it to him.

Nothing was going to derail Robert Heffernan’s goal of winning the world 50km race walk title yesterday — not even his own team-mate knocking him down while driving behind him on a 40km walk at a high altitude training camp in Ifrane, Morocco back in April.

Eamonn Coghlan last night described Robert Heffernan’s 50km race walk win as “a great way to celebrate” his world championships triumph on the 30th anniversary of his 5,000m gold in Helsinki.

Rob’s gold medal-winning performance in Moscow yesterday was the end result of a long process, one that started as far back as the Sydney Olympics in 2000.

Utterly dedicated to one another and to the pursuit of each other’s athletic goals, Rob and Marian Heffernan have long been described as “Team Heffernan”.

Coaches and teachers who have helped Rob Heffernan since he was a boy paid tribute to an athlete who started out in Togher and went all the way to the top of the world.

Family and friends of newly crowned world champion Rob Heffernan mixed nerves with tears after a 24 hours they will never forget.

After suffering 13 years of agonising near misses and the heartache of losing his mother Maureen prematurely two years ago, Rob Heffernan cried tears of joy as he was crowned 50km racewalking champion of the world.

The Irish athletics community loved Robert Heffernan even before he struck gold yesterday. They feel he is one of them.

There is absolutely no doubt Rob Heffernan’s superb gold medal in the World Athletics Championships has propelled him to a whole new level in terms of public awareness and marketing appeal. This is, after all, our first gold medal since the great Sonia O’Sullivan’s victory in 1995.

Emma Gallivan has come to appreciate Rob Heffernan’s idiosyncrasies, so much so that his wise-cracking prior to yesterday’s event didn’t surprise her in the least.

As Rob Heffernan conquered the streets of Moscow yesterday, Gillian O’Sullivan was pacing around the sitting room of her Ballincollig home.

For a small country, Ireland has an outstanding record in the fiercely competitive world of athletics, a reputation now stunningly embellished by the Cork City racewalker Rob Heffernan.