Kate O’Connor, competing for Northern Ireland, won a medal at the World Indoor Championships in Torun on Sunday. She set a new Irish record in the pentathlon with 4,839 points.

O’Connor sustained a knee injury during the long jump at last summer’s World Championships in Tokyo. She described the injury as a cartilage defect that requires ongoing management. An Achilles tendon strain also occurred two weeks before the Torun event.

She plans to enter the heptathlon at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow at the end of July. O’Connor won silver there in 2022. The European Athletics Championships in Birmingham follow just over a week later.

The two events will total 14 individual competitions with less than two weeks between them. O’Connor views the European Championships as the higher priority.

She previously completed two heptathlons last summer, about two months apart. Those included a gold at the World University Games in July and silver at the World Championships in Tokyo.

O’Connor intends to take a two-week holiday before resuming training. She aims to compete in some individual events beforehand if her condition allows. Her father and coach, Michael O’Connor, assists with her preparation.

The javelin is O’Connor’s strongest event. She named Sophie Dokter from the Netherlands as a competitor at the European Championships. Dokter won gold in Torun with 4,888 points.