Australian Dani Samuels noted the similarities to her victorious 2009 campaign after cruising through to the women's discus final on the opening day of the world athletics championships.
Samuels was ultra-consistent in the qualifying round, with her best throw of 62.85m coming after earlier efforts of 62.73m and 62.51m.
It left her in seventh place overall and in a buoyant frame of mind heading into Sunday's final (0215 AEST Monday).
"Throwing 62 and half (metres) to just under 63 with them not feeling great at all gives me a lot of confidence," said Samuels, who went on to became the youngest-ever discus world champion four years ago in Berlin when she threw a huge personal best of 65.44m in the final.
"Everyone always compares to 2009 when I threw 62.67 to get into the final.
"So I feel really good and I have plenty more left in the tank.
"Now I'm just going to go and dunk myself in an ice bath and rest and stretch and take care and look forward to the final.
"... I'm hoping for a PB and whatever that gets me."
Zinaida Sendriute of Lithuania led the qualifiers with 64.16m, while reigning Olympic champion and red-hot gold-medal favourite Sandra Perkovic of Croatia (63.62m) also got through with a minimum of fuss.
Young Victorian Alex Rowe made an impressive start to his first major championships, finding his way through some traffic on the final lap to ease into the 800m semi-finals.
Rowe, 20, was fourth in the fastest of the seven heats in a time of one minute 45.96 seconds - just half a second outside his PB set last month in Belgium.
It left him sixth fastest overall, with Mohammed Aman of Ethiopia topping the qualifying times with 1:44.93.
"This European season no one has passed me on the front straight so if I can avoid the issues I had with a bit of pushing and shoving at the 200m to go point then I think I can improve my time and again make a strong run home," said Rowe.
"That's something that I will have a look at and try to work on for the next race.
"Essentially I was caught out trying to come through on the inside of someone and know now that at an event like this an athlete isn't going to let that happen too easily."
Australian Ben St Lawrence withdrew from the 10,000m due to illness.
But the 31-year-old remains hopeful he will recover in time to contest the 5000m, with the heats scheduled for Tuesday.
Countrywoman Regan Lamble has also fallen ill, forcing her to pull out of Tuesday's women's 20km walk.
