Northland's Cameron Leslie overcame injury and a disrupted training schedule to win gold in his specialist event at the IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal.
The Whangarei-based world champion injured his right shoulder weeks out from his departure, after slipping on cobble stones in Wellington and wrenching his shoulder.
He was unable to swim backstroke after the injury, and underwent physiotherapy to ensure he was in shape for the trip to Canada.
However, last week Leslie - The Northern Advocate's sports editor - signalled he was in good shape after taking bronze in the 50m backstroke.
And yesterday, he again demonstrated his dominance of the 150m Individual Medley SM4, convincingly beating Takayuki Suzuki (Japan) and Jonas Larsen (Denmark) to gold by almost 6 seconds.
