Christine Ohuruogu has matched Cathy Freeman's haul of major gold medals with a dramatic 400m triumph at the world athletics championships.
Ohuruogu timing her run to perfection to run down defending champion Amantle Montsho from Botswana in the shadow of the line in Moscow on Monday night.
Both women were timed at 49.41 seconds but the judges gave the result to the British runner in a new national record time.
Ohuruogu - who inevitably saves her best runs for the most important occasions - also won this event at the 2007 worlds and the 2008 Olympics.
"It's like a dream, it's too much," said Ohuruogu.
"I can't believe it.
"After the race I did not want to get too excited until I knew for sure that I had won, until my name got out first."
She joins Freeman and the Australian's great rival Marie-Jose Perec as the only women to have twice won this event at world championships level.
Ohuruogu and Freeman also have one individual Olympic title apiece, while Frenchwoman Perec saluted at the Olympics twice in the 400m - in 1992 and 1996.
Jamaican pocket rocket Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce scorched to 100m glory in Moscow in even more dominant fashion than her celebrated countryman Usain Bolt.
Fraser-Pryce fired out of the blocks and was never headed, winning a second world 100m title in 10.71 to sit alongside her two Olympic 100m crowns.
The winning margin of 0.22 seconds to silver medallist Murielle Ahoure from the Ivory Coast - the first African sprint medallist in world championships history - was a record.
Defending Carmelita Jeter was third in 10.94 - the best of a four-strong US contingent in the final, none of whom could get close to Fraser-Pryce.
There was a boilover in the men's pole vault final, with Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie - the man who has taken over from Steve Hooker as the event's dominant force - lost on a countback to German Raphael Holzdeppe after both men cleared 5.89m before missing three times at 5.96m.
The bronze went to another German, Bjorn Otto (5.82m).
Reigning Olympic champion Aries Merritt from the US was never a factor in the 110m hurdles final, struggling home in sixth spot as countryman David Oliver claimed gold in 13.00.
Ryan Wilson was second in 13.13 and Russian Sergey Shubenkov prevented an American sweep by just holding out defending champion Jason Richardson for the bronze.
New Zealand powerhouse Valerie Adams won a record fourth straight shot put world title, with 20.88m.
Any of her best four throws would have been good enough for gold.
The sixth gold medal awarded on Monday went to Pawel Fajdek from Poland in the men's hammer throw.
