Tokyo: Winning a world championship bronze medal was barely the second-best thing Dr Mackenzie Little did in the past fortnight.

Little took off her stethoscope and got off a plane after a few nights of night shift at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney and saving a man from a massive heart attack in front of her.

She arrived in Tokyo and threw the javelin further than anyone in the world with her first throw in anger.

Unfortunately, while that impressive 65.54-metre throw was enough to qualify her for the javelin final, and further than the eventual gold medal winner threw in the final, distances thrown in qualifying rounds do not carry over into the medal round. Only one competitor threw farther than Little in qualifying.

Little’s first throw in the final was 63.58m. It was solid,

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