Kiwi Erika Fairweather's still pinching herself, after delivering the performance of her life, and she knows she's put the swimming world on notice, with a stunning effort at the world championships.
With a phenomenal final lap, the 19-year-old Dunedin athlete overtook the reigning world recordholder to claim bronze in the 400m freestyle, becoming just the fifth woman ever to go under four minutes.
With just a year to go until the Olympic Games, many now wonder what she might achieve at Paris in 12 months.
Standing on the podium alongside two icons of the sport, Fairweather is now officially swimming with the sharks.
"It's so surreal," she told Newshub. "That race was one of the most talked-up races of the whole meet."
Talked up because of names like American Katie Ledecky, Aussie Ariarn Titmus and Canadian Summer McIntosh, three swimmers with 14 Olympic medals between them.
Fairweather sat behind them in fourth place for most of the race, before boosting home on the final lap to pass McIntosh and secure not only bronze, but also a personal best.
"I think this has been a long time coming, so to do it on the world stage is really cool and to make a podium with it is extra awesome," she said.
Moss Burmester won 2006 Commonwealth Games gold and believes the performance will provide Fairweather with an enormous mental lift.
"You think about the four-minute barrier for swimming in the 400 free and it's massive," he said. "It's like the four-minute mile in running, so for her to break that... it will be massive for her to realise and go, 'Hey, I can go under that'.
"She's broken that ceiling."
The teenager went to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, finishing in eighth place, and with the next games looming, she now presents a threat to the very best.
"She'll definitely be on the radar of all those girls now, especially in that last 50 metres that she came home in.
"They'll be sitting there and will be very wary of that."
Fairweather is thirsty for more.
"I always said that world champs for Paris next year, so it's kind of all gone to plan," she said. "Hopefully, we will just keep progressing and, hopefully, there's something big on the cards for Paris."
Maybe a medal of a different colour.
