Sophie Pascoe is one step towards reaching her target of five medals from the Tokyo Paralympics, having won silver in the pool late on Thursday night.
In her first final of the Tokyo Games, 28-year-old Pascoe added another medal to her remarkable haul, finishing second in the SB8 100m breaststroke.
The medal is Pascoe's seventh Paralympics silver, taking her total to a New Zealand record-extending 16, along with her nine golds.
Pascoe's silver was New Zealand's first medal of the Tokyo Games.
Speaking on Friday after her latest podium finish, Pascoe couldn't hide her delight at her latest achievement, laying a marker in the ground for her Paralympic campaign.
"I'm super excited," Pascoe tells Newshub.
"I went into this race ranked third, 100m breaststroke isn't my favoured event at all.
"To come out with a silver, in obviously a really tight race in that last 10 metres, I'm super stoked.
"I stood on that podium just really proud of myself, just really happy to kick off a great start to a Games."
With four more events to come, Pascoe also says that she's set the target of standing on the podium in each discipline she's racing in in Tokyo.
While the mark may be down on the expectation of five gold medals that Pascoe would have carried into any other games, the 12 month delay to the Tokyo Games has seen a shift of expectation for the para-swimming icon.
All up, five medals would take Pascoe's total to a prospective 20, having also stood on the podium in Beijing, London and Rio de Janeiro.
"I would definitely say coming away with being on the podium from each race would be the ideal outcome," Pascoe adds.
"After the year that's been, I'm just going to be ecstatic to walk with five medals. I've achieved so much already just getting here.
"If I walk away with that, I'll be one very happy girl, knowing that I'd done everything I possibly could to be standing where I am today."
Pascoe will return to the pool on Monday, when she contests the 100m backstroke.
