After medalling in all four of her events in Paris, Kinghorn says she has finally learned to enjoy competing for the first time.
The 28-year-old added to the gold she won in the 100m on Wednesday night, as well as the silvers she earned in the T53 800m and T54 1500m.
Catherine Debrunner, who Kinghorn beat in the 100m final, got a measure of revenge by winning gold – her fourth of these Games – in a new Paralympic record time of 51.60 seconds, as 2016 champion Zhou Hongzhuan of China took bronze.
Kinghorn, who said she had been up until 3am after winning her first Paralympic gold the previous night, said she had made a conscious effort to enjoy these Games more than Tokyo, where she claimed two medals.
“It’s been amazing, I’ve done a lot better than I thought I would coming in,” she said.
“It’s definitely been my best Games by far. You can get wrapped up and quite nervous, I have never really enjoyed the whole experience.
“I just wanted to enjoy this, you never know if it will be your last Games. Sometimes I can be quite bad at taking myself off and not socialising because I get quite nervous, I don’t want to do that.
“We have been playing a lot of games of Monopoly Deal, it has been getting quite competitive, a lot of games through the team.
“As I have got older, I have realised it is not the medals which are making you happy. At Tokyo I thought ‘if I win a Paralympic medal I’ll be the happiest person ever’, then I came away and I realised they haven’t made me any happier. So going into these Games that’s what I wanted to make sure of – that I was happy.”
Kinghorn has plans to combat the post-Games blues this time – she is going to Singapore to watch Formula One in the coming weeks – but before then she is going to celebrate with her family.
“My dad is my biggest fan, and the person who thinks I can conquer the world,” she said.