""If I'm being honest, I just came to this championships and I wanted to have fun," said O'Connor. "I've already had the year from dreams and I've really been trying to actually be present in the moment, in what I'm doing. I didn't know I was second and that's great, but we've still got a long way to go in the competition. "I'll come out tomorrow, try PB in the long jump, try to PB in the javelin and try to PB in the eight [hundred]. That's really what my aims are.""
""The hurdles was one where I've known I've had a good PB in me for a long time," she said. "Sometimes I'm on the line and I'm like, 'I'll just get through this rather than attacking it,'"
O'Connor sits second overnight with 3906 points after four heptathlon events, behind USA's Anna Hall on 4154 and ahead of reigning world champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson on 3893. Olympic champion Nafi of Belgium is sixth on 3818 while Finland's Saga Vanninen is eighth on 3777. O'Connor produced notable marks: 100m hurdles 13.44 (PB), high jump 1.86m (+2cm PB), shot put 14.37m, and 200m 24.07 (PB). She plans to target personal bests in the long jump, javelin and 800m on day two and could deliver Ireland's first World Championships medal since 2013 if momentum continues.
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