Kiwi cyclist Bryony Botha has overcome a gruelling two-and-a-half months to claim her first track cycling world championship medal.
Botha has claimed silver in the women's individual pursuit at Paris - the same event where she won Commonwealth Games gold earlier this year.
Her success in France is all the more remarkable, given the revelation she'd suffered a punctured lung at the Birmingham Games, which severely hampered her build-up to the world championships.
The Kiwi finished only 0.442s behind Germany's Franziska Brausse, but just making it to the startline was almost a victory in itself.
"Having crashed at the Commonwealth Games and puncturing my lung, I had a bit more time off than I would've liked to," Botha told Newshub.
After winning pursuit gold at the Commonwealth Games, Botha rode in the scratch race for experience, but a crash sent her flying and her world championships preparations were thrown into turmoil.
"I had to stay in London for a couple of weeks, because they wouldn't clear me to fly, so I didn't have my bike or anything with me," she explained. "When I got back, I pretty much just went into panic training mode."
After returning to New Zealand, she was struck down by illness.
"Because I just hit it so hard, and then had to try and come out of that, it wasn't the best build-up, but I'm pretty happy with the overall result, given everything that's happened."
Who knows how well Botha could have done with an undisrupted build-up to the event.
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