Jessica Hull has become the first Australian female runner to win an Olympic 1500m medal, finishing a sensational second behind legendary Kenyan Faith Kipyegon at the Paris Games.
Hull, 27, was in third place with 100 metres to go but was able to overtake flagging Ethiopian Diribe Welteji in the final straight to pocket the silver in three minutes 52.56 seconds - her second-fastest time ever.
Kipyegon won a third successive Olympic 1500m title in 3:51.29 on Saturday, with Britain's Georgia Bell flying home to take the bronze.
It was the first time an Australian woman had won an Olympic medal on the track at a distance further than 800m.
Since moving back to Australia fulltime a year ago, Hull has been coached by her father Simon, a former national level middle-distance runner.
Prior to that she was based in Oregon and coached by Pete Julian.
Hull made two huge breakthroughs last month, raising expectations that she was ready to medal on the biggest stage of all.
First, she slashed five seconds off her personal best and moved to fifth on the 1500m all-time list when finishing second in 3:50.83 at the Paris Diamond League behind Kipyegon, who broke the world record.
The following week she smashed the 2000m world record in Monaco, further fuelling her belief she ready to take the step from regular global finalist to Olympic medallist.
The NSW runner was 11th in the Tokyo 1500m final and seventh at both of the two most recent world championships.
It was Australia's seventh track and field medal of the Paris Games - the second-biggest tally in Games history, behind only the 12 medals won on home soil in Melbourne in 1956.
Edwin Flack (1896) and Herb Elliott (1960) are the only Australians to win Olympic 1500m titles.