That she managed to come fourth, missing qualification for the individual event by one place, is a testament to her consistency over the one-lap distance.
In bobsleigh, Australia competed in the two-man and two-woman events, and was the highest-placed country to miss qualifications for an Olympic berth in the four-man event at the 2006 Challenge Cup.
"Because of it, I missed qualification for the free program by half a point," she said.
Worse followed when they missed qualification for the 2004 Games in Athens.
Outside the test nations, the outstanding story was Afghanistan's rise through four divisions of the minor nations before it narrowly missed qualification for the 2011 World Cup.
Having missed qualification for the 2012 Olympics – despite having a (wind-assisted) personal best, of 10.13 seconds, that would have taken him to the semi-finals in London – Isles decided on a change of tack.
In the men's C2 final, Great Britain's Matt Lister and Rhys Davies came seventh in their first ever senior final while Adam Burgess and Greg Pitt missed qualification for the final by one place after finishing 11th in the semi-final.
After earning fourth place at the 1997 Copa América, Peru missed qualification for the France 1998 World Cup only on goal difference.
Peru generally performed creditably at the South American Championships during this period, nevertheless, and only narrowly missed qualification for the Sweden 1958 World Cup finals, losing over two legs to eventual champions Brazil.
Peru subsequently missed qualification for the finals of the South Africa 2010 World Cup and the Brazil 2014 World Cup, despite the team came third at the 2011 Copa América and reached 19th in the July 2013 FIFA world rankings its highest-ever position since the start of the rankings in December 1992.
