Twenty-eight-year-old Holly Robinson has earned paralympic qualification for the Paralympic Games in Paris next year in both javelin and shot put.
It comes after her breakthrough silver medal in shot put at the Para Athletics World Championships in July.
Contesting two events will be new for Robinson at a Paralympic Games but it's a change she's been needing.
"I've been wanting a little bit of an extra challenge, something different from my normal day in and day out," she said.
Shot put has only recently been an option for her after World Para Athletics reintroduced the event for F46 classification.
"She was actually a shot putter first," her coach Raylene Bates said. "That's where I first met her — she was shot putting in Invercargill."
"They are totally different — one is very athletic and one is power but at the end of the day you need speed and power in both."
But Robinson has revealed to 1News this build up to a games is different for other reasons too. The para star was involved in a car accident at the end of last year.
"I put my hand out to take a bit of the brunt," Robinson explained.
"I have always had a niggling elbow but that sort of got aggravated and made my elbow a bit angry! It was my dominant hand — my only hand."
Robinson had elbow surgery in January but her hopes of competing at the Para Athletics World Championships were in doubt. It was unclear if she'd be physically able to use her dominant arm in competition.
"It wasn't just about athletics, it was about her whole lifestyle," Bates said.
"It was fair to say she was really doubting her self — you've only got only one arm and that's injured, so it's pretty traumatic."
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