PENTATHLON IRELAND – HIGH PERFORMANCE ATHLETE PROFILE

NAME: Arthur Lanigan O’Keeffe

AGE: 20

HOMETOWN: Kilkenny

OCCUPATION: Student

MAJOR SPORTING ACHIEVEMENTS:

20^TH Senior European Championship (1^st Irish male to make a major final) (2011)

15^th Senior World Championships semi final (2011)

9^th Senior World Championships Mixed Team Relay (2011)

4^th Senior Polish Open (2011)

1^st into combined in German Open but cancelled due to weather (2011)

14^th Junior European Championships (2011)

5^th Junior European Championships mixed team relay (2011)

16^th Junior World Championships (2010)

1^st British Junior National Pentathlon Championships (2009)

1^ST British Junior Modern Tetrathlon Championships (2009)

1^st British Junior Modern Biathlon Championships (2009)

Highest ranked Irish Male Athlete

13^th in the Junior world rankings

HOW/WHEN YOU STARTED MP:

I came from an equestrian background, both my parents were involved in horses so as a child I did a lot of horse riding and I started taking swimming lessons to address my severe co-ordination problems that I had when I was younger. I soon fell in love with the sport of swimming and became competitive at youth level. I was then recruited to compete for my pony club (Warrington) in the Tetrathlon championships (Running, Shooting, Swimming & Riding). I became very good at Tetrathlon and wanted to take it to the next level so I took up Pentathlon and received a sports Scholorship to an Elite sporting school in England called Millfield were I began to train seriously. And the rest is history!

SPORTING HEROS: Michael Phelps, Steve Perfontaine

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