Australian teenage sprint sensation Isis Holt has won a second straight 200m gold medal in the T35 class at the world para-athletics championships.
The 16-year-old crossed the line in 28.47 seconds in London on Sunday, relegating 2016 Rio Paralympics champion Zhou Xia from China to second spot.
"I still can't believe what's just happened, I didn't expect to run so fast," said Holt, who won her maiden world title as a 14-year-old in Doha in 2015.
"It was a little bit of revenge for me to win again, but more than that it was really great to come back after Rio and be able to keep this title."
Fellow Australians Brianna Coop and Carly Salmon were fourth and sixth respectively.
On a big day for the Australian team, James Turner broke the 200m T36 world record with a time of 24.15 in his heat, Deon Kenzie (800m T38) and Aaron Chatman (high jump) both pocketed silver medals and vision-impaired Chad Perris was third in the 100m T13 final.
Perris clocked 10.96 - the same time he ran two years ago in Doha - finishing one hundredth of a second behind runner-up Mateusz Michalski from Poland.
Four-time world champion Jason Smyth from Ireland claimed the gold medal.
Kurt Fearnley was disappointed to finish sixth in the 1500m T54.
"I'm still trying to get my head around it. Sixth is where I came in Rio, but tonight the old arms wouldn't fire up," he said.
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