Kate O'Connor: 'For the last lap and a half, I kept saying to myself — how much do you want this medal?’

The second-place in the pentathlon comes just 12 days on from her bronze medal at the European Indoors.

Kate O'Connor of Ireland celebrates throwing a personal best of 14.64m in the shot put event of the women's pentathlon. Pic: Sportsfile

Kate O’Connor has won the first global multi-events medal in history for Ireland, the 24-year-old Dundalk athlete taking a superb silver in the pentathlon at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing, China.

Just 12 days on from her bronze medal at the European Indoors, O’Connor produced lifetime best performances in three of the five disciplines to finish on 4742 points, just shy of the Irish record of 4781 she scored in Apeldoorn recently.