James Guthrie-Croft has defied the odds to become one of New Zealand's rising sprint sensations.
He was diagnosed with the motor learning disability dyspraxia aged five after his teacher recognised he had significant co-ordination issues and had a "gait".
His mum Pauline Guthrie noticed her son had poor reflexes and was prone to tripping and falling, but she dismissed it as "clumsiness".
"It all began to make sense," Pauline said. "James couldn't hold a knife and fork, he couldn't hold a pencil. The dyspraxia affected his fine-motort skills and hampered his reading and learning."
To combat the condition, James, now 15, threw himself into sport and was given additional tutoring to keep up to speed in the classroom.