A sensational performance from Lois Leaver saw her win an incredible U23 World title as she powered to women's K1 gold in Liptovsky, Slovakia.
The Edinburgh Schools athlete put in a show stopping display in the final to win her individual international medal and become Britain's first ever U23 World Champion in the women's kayak.
Seventh down in the final after a solid semi-final run, Leaver looked assured in her approach as she navigated a tricky course set up, and was on for a great time despite being behind at both initial splits.
Chasing the clean time of 101.16, the Scot kept her clean before a storming bottom section which made up nearly two seconds on Czechia paddler Katerina Bekova to go in first with 100.16.
Leaver then had the nervous wait to see where she stacked up with senior international medallists still to go.
Elina Hocevar (Slovenia) came closest, just 0.12 shy of Leaver, but once Lucie Nesnidalova (Czechia) failed to beat the Brit, her gold and World title were confirmed.
Lost for words, Leaver said:
“To win the U23 world title is crazy! It feels so surreal. Everything happened so fast, it's all just sinking in what I have achieved today.
“I had a few things from my semis run which I wanted to work on and I'd already put down good runs previously. I just wanted to improve and the result would take care of itself.
“It was such a nervous wait for the final three paddlers. All the Brits surrounded the kiss and cry area and it was great to have their support. I really didn't know what to expect.
“It's my first individual medal and for it to be gold is just unbelievable.”
Lee Valley's Ellis Miller was also in women's kayak finals action as she took to the course second.
Clipping gate seven, Miller lost a bit of time on the early section of the course, as she initially went in behind with a time of 108.58, before placing ninth overall.
She will now look ahead to the canoe semi-finals tomorrow.
Two Brits contested the U23 men's kayak final as Sam Leaver (Edinburgh Schools) and Ben Haylett (Holme Pierrepont) achieved top five finishes in Liptovsky.
Sam was incredibly close to becoming the second Leaver of the day to go home with a medal, but narrowly missed out as he finished fourth.
It was an incredible run from the U23 Kayak Cross World Champion as he navigated the course with determination and was well up on the two splits.
Unfortunately the front of his boat knocked into upstream 18 to add two seconds to his time of 90.99.
Initially going in first, he had a long wait to see where he ended up, subsequently dropping down to just outside the podium places, with a narrow 0.06 separating him from the bronze.
Ben Haylett (Holme Pierrepont) also put a fierce display down in the final as he went in search of his first individual medal.
Next off after his British teammate, Haylett was 0.10 behind Leaver at the second split. However an incredible bottom section of the course made up a lot of ground to initially go in 1.72 ahead at the top.
With his time good enough to win the final, Hayletthe was sadly adjudged late on to have clipped gate 14 with his helmet, which pushed him down to fifth overall with a time 91.27
Two-time U23 World medallist Jonny Dickson (CR Cats) looked on to make it three Brits in the men's kayak final.
He was clean in his run and within the qualification time at the first two splits, but sadly Dickson lost a bit of time heading into the final upstream of gate 20, which ultimately placed him 11th and just 0.26 off the final.
After a great second run yesterday, Macy Kang (Holme Pierrepont) was contesting her first U23 K1W semi-final.
It was a solid performance from Kang as she went in search of the time set by her British teammate Miller.
Dead-level at the first split, Kang was given a penalty on gate 14, which left her with a final time of 111.51, sitting her outside the top ten needed to qualify.
The afternoon saw the junior canoe women take to their semi-finals, but unfortunately the British trio missed out on the top ten to progress to the final.
Zoe Blythe-Shields (Independent) was the top finishing Brit in her pursuit for another final place.
She was quick on the top section despite a touch on gate three, but sadly four further penalties in the bottom section just took her out the running in 13th place with a time of 129.46.
Embarking on her third junior World Championships, Arina Kontchakov (Lee Valley) too missed out a place in the final.
The 17-year-old picked up four gate touches on her run as she crossed the line in 140.18 to place 19th.
Darcey McMullins (Lee Valley) raced her first junior World Championships semi-final after impressing in the heats yesterday.
It was a similar situation for her as gate penalties took her outside the top ten as she placed 22nd overall.
Full results from the fourth day of racing can be found here