Australian Jessica Fox has created history by winning a third straight women's C1 title at the Canoe Slalom World Championships in London.
The 21-year-old on Sunday was motivated by failing to defend her K1 world title just 24 hours earlier.
Fox is the first woman in either the K1 and C1 to win three consecutive titles and she joins only two other paddlers - one of those being her father Richard - to win a hat-trick of World Championships.
Fox dominated Sunday's final completing the course without a penalty and finishing a massive 4.91 seconds ahead of the Czech Republic's Katerina Hoskova in a time of 113.51 seconds.
Australia's Alison Borrows finished eighth.
"There's joy and elation to put together such a good run," Fox said afterwards.
"I'm really happy with the way I lived that race, and how I lived with the whole experience, because it was a tough final."
Fox said she'd tried not to think about making history but admitted "it's really special to defend a world title and to win three in a row is awesome".
The 21-year-old was disappointed to be fourth in the K1 on Saturday but used that as motivation in the C1.
In further positive news for Australia, Victoria's Jaxon Merritt missed the men's K1 final but his result was good enough to secure Australia a start in the 2016 Olympics.
"After having a good qualification run here, it does build my confidence a bit," Merritt said.
"But I've got to get faster. Those boys are going pretty quick."
Western Australia's Robin Jeffery missed the final of the men's C1 and finished outside an Olympic qualification position.
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