Even in the story-laden world of the Paralympics, where things are never monochrome, it is hard to trump getting your leg bitten off by a shark one year, and swimming for medals in Paris the next.
In the aftermath of the attack, after Sophie had stemmed the blood by tying a makeshift tourniquet around Truwit's leg as the boat raced back to land, she was airlifted to hospital where the doctors fought first to save her life.
But, incredibly, just four months after the attack, she contacted her old swimming coach James Barone and asked him if he'd help her again.
Less than a year after that, after four minutes and 31 seconds in the water, second behind Canada's Aurelie Rivard, there is a silver medal round her neck.
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