The Otago athletics star continued her remarkably consistent run with a silver medal in the shot put F46 final at the world para athletics championships in New Delhi last night.
It matched the silvers she won at both the 2023 (Paris) and 2024 (Kobe) world championships, and followed her bronze medal at the Paris Paralympics last year.
The scary thing — for her competitors — is that Robinson is making significant improvements with the shot put in her hand a year after ditching her favoured javelin event.
She was sixth in javelin at the Paralympics last year.
Robinson’s consistency shone through in New Delhi last night.
She held the lead after the opening round with a throw of 12.67m, a massive 42cm personal best and a full metre further than the next best legal effort in the shot put field.
Robinson then peeled off throws of 12.71m, 12.86m, 12.50m, 12.26m and 12.58m.
Her third-round effort of 12.86m — an Oceania record — clinched silver, 10cm clear of Canadian bronze medallist Katie Pegg.
Robinson was just 2cm off the gold medal spot until the final round, when Uzbekistan world champion Karomat Omonoova broke the Asian record with an imposing 13.07m.
Robinson threw a significant unofficial personal best of 13.08m on September 20, but that competition was unable to be ratified for the purposes of Oceania para records.
Her silver was the fourth medal for New Zealand at the world championships, following Danielle Aitchison’s gold in the 100m T36, Lisa Adams’ gold in the shot put F37, and Will Stedman’s bronze in the 400m T36.
Earlier, Michael Whittaker placed eighth in the 5000m T13 final on his world para athletics debut.
The former international model-turned-athlete’s time of 15min 38.13sec was within 10sec of his personal best.
Sarah James was lining up overnight in the 100m T53 final.
Dunedin runner Anna Grimaldi has her 200m T47 heats today.
Aitchison is back on the track for the 200m T36 final, Paddy Walsh makes her debut in the long jump T64, and James completes her campaign with the 400m T53.
