Uchimura wins all-around gold

Japan's Kohei Uchimura stormed the field to win gold at the Gymnastics World Championships with 91.500.

Daniel Keatings was stunned and delighted after claiming Britain's first all-around medal with silver at London's O2 Arena and Russian Yury Ryazanov took bronze.

The Olympic finalist had qualified in fourth place for the final but his superb display saw him finish second with 88.925 points

"I came here hoping to make the final. A silver medal is a dream come true," Keatings said.

"Starting off on the floor it wasn't such a great performance and then I pulled myself together and came through the next five apparatus."

Wolverhampton's Kristian Thomas completed an impressive evening for the British team with a top-10 finish as he scored 87.350 for sixth.

The final had been blown wide open after German Fabian Hambuchen, one of the favourites for the title, pulled out on Monday after injuring himself in training.

Keatings made a nervy start on the floor, picking up 0.4 penalty points after twice stepping out of the area as he scored lower than in qualifying with 14.250.

But he bounced back on his favoured apparatus, the pommel horse, with the hardest routine in the competition to score 15.500 and move into third overall.

He safely came through the rings, his weakest event, posting 14.200 as Japan's Uchimura led the way at the halfway stage.

The Briton's composed display on the vault earned him 15.450 and saw him rise to second position behind the Japanese star with two rotations remaining.

The Northamptonshire gymnast scored an impressive 15.050 on the parallel bars to maintain his second position and held his nerve on the bars, earning 14.475 to claim second place in front of an ecstatic home crowd.

The O2 Arena will also be the venue for the sport at the London Olympics and Keatings wants to keep improving over the next three years.

"I'm going to try to push my routines even further to see where I can get them to, and try to compete with Uchimura and the top gymnasts," he said.

The 19-year-old trains alongside Olympic bronze medallist Lewis Smith at the Huntingdon Club in Cambridgeshire and he praised the influence of his team-mate.

He said: "Working alongside Lewis, being the Olympic medallist, has pushed me. Not only just on the pommel horse but everything else.

"I am so proud of Kristian [Thomas] as well, we're sharing a room and we both nervous when we woke up this morning. We both didn't get the best of sleep.

"I think we went to bed at 10 o'clock and then by 11 we were both still rolling around so we decided to turn the television on because we couldn't sleep."

Thomas, also 19, had qualified with the ninth highest score and showed few nerves as he rounded off the final with a brilliant 15.000 on the floor to see him jump to sixth.

"I'm ecstatic. I can't even really explain how good a feeling that is," Thomas said.

"It's definitely better (than I expected). I just did the routines as best I could.

"I'm happy with floor because I fell in qualifying but I managed to go through a clean routine so that's all I could ask for.

"(Keatings' medal) is a massive, massive achievement. One of the best in the history of British gymnastics, an all-around medal which British gymnasts haven't won before. It's a credit to him and his coach - very well deserved."