Mackenzie Little threw her way on to the podium in the javelin final at the world championships on Saturday, a week after helping save a man’s life at Royal North Shore hospital in Sydney on one of the many night shifts she juggles with athletics.
The 28-year-old doctor produced her longest throw first up, hurling the javelin 63.58m. It was only eclipsed twice in the final, by Ecuadorian gold medallist Juleisy Angulo whose effort of 65.12m was a national record, and by Anete Sietina on the Latvian’s final throw.
