Athlete Profile: Arthur Lanigan-o Keeffe

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Hungary take first Mixed Relay World Cup Gold
Feb 25th Feb, 13
The Hungarian team of Leila Gyenesei and Adam Marosi have won the first Gold Medal of the inaugural Mixed Relay World Cup Series. Natalya Coyle and Eanna Bailey took Silver, Irelands first ever World Cup Medal, whilst Ukrainans Viktoria Tereshuk and Pavlo Tymoshchenko grab the Bronze.  

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Insight into the Irish Sensation Lanigan-O'Keeffe
Nov 12th Nov, 12
In the bustling UCD sports hall, he's easy to pick out. He's the one standing at a table facing the wall, holding a gun in his right hand which he is pointing at an imaginary target a few inches away.

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Next Batch of Irish Pentathletes are Found
Nov 7th Nov, 12
Building on the success of Pentathlon Ireland’s Olympic results, where former Irish Pony Club athletes; Natalya Coyle finished 9th and Arthur Lanigan-O’Keeffe 25th, Pentathlon Ireland hosted a training camp to introduce pony club athletes to the sport of modern pentathlon.

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2012 Junior World Championships Review
Sep 13th Sep, 12
In the centennial year of modern pentathlon, the sport showed how well it’s aging by evolving itself and involving the fans.

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Lanigan O'Keeffe Rides well to start 1st in Combined
Sep 8th Sep, 12
Arthur Lanigan O’Keeffe (IRL) has had a fantastic ride and scored 1160 to consolidate his place at the top of the leaders board ahead of the combined event. Martin Bilko (CZE) has a perfect ride of 1200 to move into 2nd and will start 12 seconds behind the Irishman. The dangerous Maksim Kustov (RUS) will start in 3rd position after knocking down 4 rails 22 seconds behind Lanigan O’Keeffe. Youth Olympic Champion Dae Beom Kim (KOR) is back in 6th spotstarting 30 seconds behind the leader. Defending Champion Jamie Cooke (GBR) is not out of the medals after a near perfect ride and is 48 seconds back.

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Cooke stretched but still wins swim
Sep 8th Sep, 12
Jamie Cooke (GBR) has won the swim, in a relatively disappointing time of 1:58.22 which is 4 seconds outside his PB in the Junior Men’s World Championships final. Maksim Kustov (RUS) gave Cooke a big scare comining within .30 seconds of the defending World Champion. Simon Casse (FRA) came in 3rd and Woo Jin Lee (KOR) in 4th. Winner of the fencing Arthur Lanigan O’Keeffe (IRL)came in 6th place 4 seconds off the pace, which was enough to consolidate his position at the top of the leaders board. Kustov was rewarded with a good swim and has moved into 2nd position just ahead of Martin Bilko (CZE).

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Lanigan O'Keeffe Fires to Win Fencing
Sep 8th Sep, 12
Arthur Lanigan O’Keeffe (IRL) has coped with the pressure of being one of the favourites beautifully by winning the fencing with 25V & 10D. The Irishman was 2 victories ahead of Andrea Pucciariello (ITA) and Martin Bilko (CZE) who will be pleased of how they coped on the world biggest stage. The dangerous French pair of Valentin Prades and Valentin Belaud are a further victory back and the superstar of the field Ilya Sugarov (RUS) is still in contention finishing just 4 victories behind O’Keeffe. As usual defending champion Jamie Cooke (GBR) has left himself some work to do, finishing 27th, 11 victories behind the winner. However, this was exactly the same score he posted last year in the fencing before he won the championships, so don't count him out just yet.

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Men's Final Preview: Trio battle it out for gold
Sep 7th Sep, 12
Margaux Isaksen (USA) is the new Women’s Junior World Champion, who out of the 36 men lining up for the Men’s final tomorrow will emulate her feat?

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