High-octane house music has propelled rising Australian swim star Alexa Leary to a Paralympic gold medal and fulfilled a prophecy set out by a fortune teller three years ago.
After setting a 59.60 world record in the morning session heat at La Defense Arena in Paris, Leary went one better to claim gold in the 100m freestyle (S9) with a time of 59.53.
The gold was Leary's first individual Paralympic medal and came after she had single-handedly carried Australia's 100m relay team to an emphatic first-place finish two days earlier.
