This weeks guest on Stand Out with Ian O’Connell is Rob Heffernan. Rob is an Irish Olympian race walker and is married to Marian Heffernan, who is also a 400M Olympian. Heffernan became the only Irish athlete to compete in five consecutive Olympics in Rio 2016, the high point of his career being the gold medal he won over the 50km walk at the 2013 World Athletics Championships in Moscow. They talk about Rob’s life and sporting career, his well known sports family, the mental side of sports, female sports and much more.
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