What's a girl to do with six medals?
Perth swimmer Brianna Throssell hasn't decided yet.
The 18-year-old won her sixth bronze medal at the Youth Olympic Games on Friday, wrapping up a campaign where she took home a medal in all but one of her events in Nanjing.
"I guess I'll just keep them in my room as they are so special to me," she said.
Her collection is split evenly between her individual and team events, with her last from the 100m butterfly behind China's Zhang Yufei as gold went to Hungarian Liliana Szilagyi.
In the only event where Throssell missed out on bronze, she touched the wall a mere 0.02 seconds behind the women's 50m butterfly bronze medallist.
The swimmer and part-time university student says staying focused has been the key to her success.
"You're there to do a job and after the job's done, you can have fun," she said.
Throssell already has her sights set on the upcoming world short course trials, but says it's too early to start thinking about the 2016 Olympics in Rio.
"I try not to get caught up in the 'oh my gosh, what about the Olympics?'," she said.
"If I go to the Olympics, I do. If I don't - well, there are many more things that can happen."
But her success at the Youth Olympics has made her more determined to train harder.
"It makes me more excited, more motivated to work harder in the pool and train as best I can.
"Hopefully there will be better things to come," she said.
Australia's mixed 4x100m medley team also won bronze in the last race at the Games after Nicholas Brown, 18, took the team from fourth to third in his leg.
Joining him on the podium were Ami Matsuo, Amy Forrester, and Grayson Bell.
Earlier in the evening Matsuo broke Australia's bronze run with silver in the 50m freestyle behind Russian gold medallist Rozaliya Nasretdinova.
Australian swimmers have contributed six out of the country's 12 medals at the Games so far.
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