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Little wins Australia's fifth medal at Para worlds

Rosemary Little has won bronze in the shot put at the Para worlds in Paris. (PR HANDOUT IMAGE PHOTO) (AAP)

Three-time Paralympian Rosemary Little has won her first global medal in 10 years and Australia's fifth on day six of the World Para Athletics Championships in Paris.

Launching a 6.33m bomb in the second round of the shot put F32 competition, wheelchair racer and thrower Little landed herself in the bronze-medal position when surpassing the 6.26m mark of the UAE's Mounia Gasmi, ensuing an agonising wait as the last of 10 competitors took to the chair.

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