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.
"I never thought the words of being a field-event medallist would come out of my mouth," Little said.
Adding to her Paralympic bronze at the London Games and 2013 World Para Athletics Championships haul of silver and bronze in Lyon, Little's personal best won her bronze and the first global medal in a field event - at the age of 40.
"This one is slightly different because it comes of a place of hard work, fighting my way out of a place of being severely disabled. I could have sat in a power chair and not done a lot and accepted my fate, but the athlete in me keeps on going," Little said.
Teenager Sarah Clifton-Bligh threw a personal best of 5.26m to come seventh.
Western Australian training partners Rhiannon Clarke and Ella Pardy raced to fourth and fifth respectively in the 200m T38 Final, mirroring their efforts in the 100m T38.
Clarke ran 27.10 to lead Pardy home in 27.41, but was not discouraged by the result despite just missing out on a podium finish.
"That was a tough race but I really pushed it to the end. Fourth is always a hard spot to get but I'm still one of the youngest in the field, so I have got to be easy on myself."
Making his worlds debut, 22-year-old Samuel Rizzo raced to a four-second personal best to finish ninth in a stacked 1500m T54 final led by Swiss sensation Marcel Hug.
Despite the tactical affair, Rizzo's performance of 2:55.32 was just shy of Paralympic legend Kurt Fearnley's 11-year-old Australian record of 2:54.75, holding him in good stead as he builds global experience in his budding career.
Victorian teenager Annabelle Colman, making her international debut, came eighth in the 1500m T20 while reigning world champion James Turner kick-started his title defence with a casual win in heat two of the 100m T36.
Already a world champion in 2023 with the 400m T36 gold medal locked away, the 100m T36 world record holder will look to complete his redemption story after a slow start at the Tokyo Paralympic Games saw him settle for silver.
Cameron Crombie came ninth in his first world long jump T38 competition and the back-to-back shot put F38 world champion will now turn his attention to completing the three-peat in his pet event.
Teenagers Mali Lovell and Abby Craswell are also through to the 200m T36 Final.
