O’Sullivan confident her silver can turn to gold

IF you travel regularly between Cork to Killarney you must surely have come across the red-head walking at a hectic pace either along the Carrigrohane Straight Road or around Glenflesk, but don’t be surprised if you recognise a new spring in her step next time you spot her.

Yesterday Gillian O’Sullivan became only the third Irish athlete in history to win a medal at the world track and field championships following Eamonn Coghlan’s 5,000m gold in 1983 and Sonia O’Sullivan’s 5,000m gold in 1995.

In one fell swoop she claimed the silver medal behind the European and former Olympic champion, Yelena Nikolayeva, and the $30,000 prizethat goes with it as well as another $30,000 as winner of the Grand Prix series.