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Ian Chadband

Aussie doc enjoys surgical javelin victory in Glasgow

Sydney doctor Mackenzie Little has landed the Commonwealth Games javelin gold. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

A wizard with the scalpel, Sydney surgeon Mackenzie Little has finally become a golden girl with the javelin too as she led one last parade of Commonwealth Games field event medallists in the green-and-gold.

The remarkable 29-year-old Little, a doctor at Northern Beaches hospital, can barely even call herself a part-time athlete these days such is her busy medical life, but she still proved too good for her opponents as the much bemedalled thrower finally lifted a major international title.

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