Katherine’s Emily Tapp has won a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games.
Australia’s para-triathletes snaffled three medals across two incident-packed races at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Australia might have dominated placings at the Southport race but England bagged the golds as Jade Jones won the women’s race and Joe Townsend the men’s.
World champion Emily Tapp, from Katherine in the Northern Territory, grabbed silver in the women’s event while Lauren Parker, who led at one stage, took a dramatic bronze medal.
Emily became a paraplegic in 2011 following a campdrafting accident, having grown up on a remote Mountain Valley Station cattle property near Katherine.
The former Katherine resident underwent three years of rehabilitation but Tapp's competitive fire never burned out, so she turned to para-triathlon.
Tapp, born in Katherine and grew up in the Roper region on her family's cattle station, was educated in Queensland and now calls the ACT home.
She won her first race in 2015 and soon after she was in the frame for a Rio Paralympic Games berth in the 400m wheelchair event, before withdrawing due to burns to her leg.
Now the 26-year-old is the reigning para-triathlon world champion.
In her event, Emily had to swim 750 metres, hand cycle 20km and wheelchair race five kilometres to win silver.
There was drama in the event with 29-year-old Parker who had a tumble in the finishing chute and tipped onto her back, but that was not going to stop her.
She rose again to applause from the crowd and powered on the the finish line to take third.
It was no less dramatic in the men’s race which saw Tamworth-born Bill Chaffey take silver behind England’s Joe Townsend.
Chaffey, a former triathlete who broke his back, roared into silver but was forced to finish the cycle one-handed after a spill.
It was his best international result