Namibia: O’connor Wins Commonwealth Heptathlon As Australia Set New Record for Swimming Golds

Kate O’Connor cruised to heptathlon gold for Northern Ireland as Australia rounded off their best ever Commonwealth Games in the pool with nine more swimming gold medals on Wednesday for a total of 37.

O’Connor said she was “gutted” by her shot put effort on Tuesday in miserable wet conditions that put her quest for gold in danger.

But the 25-year-old was a class apart from the field to go one better than the silver she won in Birmingham four years ago and secure Northern Ireland’s first athletics…