She received official notification that her performance in Bottrop, Germany, last year was an F46 junior world record when she returned home from the Australian championships at Melbourne on Monday night.
Robinson was competing in a series of international meetings with the New Zealand team in Europe.
That distance was 9.83m. But she has thrown better than that this season.
"We will be applying to have the 10.15m she threw at the New Zealand championships in Auckland last month recognised, as well," her coach, Raylene Bates, said yesterday.
"Getting recognition is a boost for Holly's morale. It showed that she can foot it with the best athletes in the world."
At the championships in Melbourne last weekend Robinson was third in the shot put with a throw of 9.67m.
Her best performance was in the F46 javelin, in which she finished runner-up, 2m behind world champion Madeline Hogan (Australia).
Robinson threw 31m.
This was significant because it is the only Paralympic event in her class and she is trying to make the New Zealand team for London.
Robinson is ranked fifth in this event with her throw of 34.08m at the Otago and Southland secondary school championships in Invercargill.
Early indications point to New Zealand taking no more than three athletes to the London Paralympics.
The top-ranked athlete is London-based blind athlete Tim Prendergast, who is the world record-holder in the 1500m.
Robinson is second in line for a trip to London and another Bates-trained athlete, Jessica Hamill, is ranked third.
Hamill's best throw of 7.43m in the shot put ranks her seventh in the world. She was third in Melbourne with a throw of 6.89m.
Robinson, an arm amputee, moved from her home in Hokitika to Dunedin last year to train with Bates. She was born with a left arm shortened just below the elbow.
Robinson first competed in athletics aged 12 and made her international debut in the world championships in Christchurch last year, when she finished fifth in the javelin and seventh in the shot put.
Two other Bates-trained athletes competed in Melbourne. Jerram Huston threw his best distance of the season when he finished eighth in the shot put with 14.80m and Marshall Hall was seventh in the discus with 54.02m.
It was a personal-best throw by 24cm for Hall, who has won the New Zealand senior men's title for the last four years.
