Jessica Fox created history at the 2015 Canoe Slalom World Championships in London on Sunday by winning a third consecutive women's C1 (canoe single) title - something no other athlete in her sport has done.
The 21-year-old former Blaxland High School student said she felt extra motivated by failing to defend her K1 (kayak single) world title the day before, when she finished a disappointing fourth.
The Leonay resident dominated the C1 final, being one of only two athletes to complete the course without a penalty, and finished a massive 4.91 seconds ahead of Czech Katerina Hoskova in a time of 113.51 seconds.
"I'm relieved," Fox, an Olympic silver medallist, said.
"It's not something I try and think about, but it's really special to defend a world title, and to win three in a row is awesome.
"I'm a bit disappointed to be fourth in the K1, but I think it did motivate me [for the C1 final]."
Lapstone resident Alison Borrows finished eighth overall.
The championships ended with the teams finals, with Fox, Borrows and Ros Lawrence joining forces to win gold for Australia in the women's C1 event.
On the other side of the Atlantic, in Canada's famous Ottawa River, six Blue Mountains athletes represented Australia at the world championships in canoeing discipline freestyle.
In this discipline paddlers perform a range of acrobatic tricks and manoeuvres on river features like waves and holes in 45-second stints.
Winmalee High School student Georgia Clarke, 15, was most impressive in her world championship debut and the only member of Australia's 13-strong team to progress beyond the preliminaries.
Clarke finished 9th in the junior women's canoe freestyle K1 heats, scoring 26.66 points and went on to finish ninth in the semi-finals. The gold medal was won by American Sage Donnelly.
Fifteen-year-old Blue Mountains Grammar School student Liam Dowd was the highest ranked finisher in the junior men's K1 preliminaries, finishing 20th on debut with 93.33 points, followed by Hazelbrook teenagers Gilbert Coombes (21st) and Rowan Kaar (22nd).
Leura's Joseph Dunne, 21, finished 61st in the men's K1 preliminaries while Glenbrook's Mitch Taylor came 73rd.
Australia's team manager Eileen Callaghan heaped praise on Clarke for being the standout performer and one of the youngest paddlers representing her country at the championships.
"The remaining team members, despite competing on the unfamiliar wave features rather than the type of hole features we are used to training on, gained valuable international experience," Ms Callaghan said.
- with Australian Canoeing