Rob Heffernan poised to collect overdue Olympic medal in Cork in November

It didn’t arrive yesterday, as he hoped, but Rob Heffernan will nonetheless get his hands on an Olympic medal in the coming months.

Shortly after finishing fifth in the 50km race walk in Rio, the 38-year-old revealed his bronze medal from the London 2012 Olympics will be presented to him at a ceremony in Cork in November.

“Pat Hickey has the medal at the moment; someone said it was all he had on when he got arrested,” said Heffernan with a laugh. “The medal is already in Ireland so we’ll have it [presented] in Cork and I hope everybody will be there so we can celebrate it properly.”