Legally blind Paralympian Jessica Gallagher used to ski down mountains at more than 100km/h, getting her directions out of a headset.
Now she's switched to the `relative safety' of a 60km/hr track cycling race, and has made history in the process.
The sport-hopping star became Australia's first athlete to win a medal at both a summer and winter Games in Rio when she won bronze in the women's B3 1km time trial.
Gallagher had already claimed bronze at the past two winter Paralympics in the slalom, and dabbled in long jump and javelin at the London summer Games.
"I still can't believe it. It seems like a long time coming after being banned from Beijing for not being blind enough," she said.
The Victorian rider was selected for the 2008 Beijing summer Games but was declared ineligible on the eve of competition, as her right eye was deemed 0.01 of a degree too sighted to legally compete.
"It was so bizarre and just completely ironic. At the time it was just complete devastation," she said.
Where she used to rely on an earpiece for directions on a mountainside, now Gallagher has tandem bicycle pilot Maddie Janssen.
The pair set a paralympic record on Friday (Saturday AEST) that was quickly eclipsed by British gold medal winners Sophie Thornhill and pilot Helen Scott.
Australia's medal run continued when fellow rider David Nicholas scored gold in the men's C3 3km individual pursuit.
Three-time world champion Brenden Hall easily defended his crown in the S9 400m freestyle, winning by nearly five seconds.
But it was devastatingly close for London 2012 gold medallist Ellie Cole, who missed the top of the podium in the women's S9 400m freestyle by 0.02 seconds.
One of the youngest athletes on the Aussie team, 14-year-old Tiffany Thomas Kane atoned for a disqualification the previous night by clinching bronze in the S6 50m butterfly final.
And there were more bronzed Aussies in track and field, including rookie sprinter Chad Perris who placed third in the T13 men's 100m and fellow debutante Claire Keefer who came third in the women's F41 shot put.
Their feats lifted Australia to sixth on the medal table with three gold, two silver and six bronze at the end of day two.
Meanwhile, Australian co-skipper Daniela Di Toro was knocked out of the women's table tennis competition, going down in straight sets to German Sandra Mikolaschek.
