Scotland boxer Alex Arthur is the new WBO super-featherweight champion after Joan Guzman decided to give up his crown and step up to the lightweight division.
Arthur, who’d been the 'interim' champion after beating Koba Gogoladze in July, said: "I'm delighted with the decision by the WBO to give me full world champion status but I felt that I won the title when I beat Gogoladze.”
British canoeist Campbell Walsh, the silver medallist at the Athens Olympics in 2004, won the European Slalom Gold medal in Krakow, the first major international title of his career.
Britain's Louis Smith is delighted after winning the bronze medal in the pommel horse at the World Gymnastics Championships.
Heather Fell won her second Modern Pentathlon World Cup medal of the year as three Britons finished in the top six in the Czech Republic event.
In the rowing world, Team GB’S rowers secured five golds and three silver medals at the World Cup in Munich, with Alan Campbell powering through to win the single scull final, the men’s coxless four, the men’s lightweight double sculls and open weight double sculls and the women’s quadruple scull. The lightweight men's four, men's eight and women's single won silver medals.
Double Olympic champion Ben Ainslie added the European title to his world crown with a stunning win at the 2008 Finn Championship at Scarlino in Italy, clinching his fourth European sailing title.
Shooter Richard Faulds continued his Olympic build-up with a silver medal in the ISSF World Cup at Kerrville in Texas.
Swimmer David Davies won the silver medal in the 10km race at the Open Water World Championships and with it qualified for this summer's Olympics.
Aaron Cook has become the first-ever male British athlete to win a WTF World Junior Championship taekwondo title. The 17-year-old from Dorchester brought an early end to his -78kg final against Korean Yeong Rae while 12-8 ahead.
Liverpool's Bianca Walkden, 16, also excelled at the event in Turkey, taking silver in the +68kg category.
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