Britain's Laura Stevens won her first world title in the women's 200m butterfly at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha.
The 24-year-old swam in 2 minutes 7.35 seconds to become Britain's first individual women's world champion since 2011.
“It's unbelievable. With 50 meters to go all I was thinking was holding on,” Stevens said.
Later on Thursday, the British women's team won silver in the 4x200m freestyle, their 15th national medal in total.
The British quartet of Freya Colbert, Abbie Wood, Lucy Hope and Mehdi Eira Harris finished in 7 minutes 50.90 seconds.
Great legs from Wood gave Great Britain the lead at the halfway mark, but Britain held off late momentum to hold off Australia, who took bronze, and China came back to take gold.
Elsewhere, Duncan Scott finished sixth in the 200m individual medley after qualifying comfortably in third place.
Matt Richards narrowly missed out on a medal in the men's 100m freestyle, finishing fourth behind world record holder Zhanle Pan of China in first place, Alessandro Milessi of Italy in second place, and Nandor Nemeth of Hungary in third place. Ta.
Anna Hopkin swam the women's 100m freestyle in 53.12 seconds on Friday, placing second behind Dutch swimmer Marit Steenbergen (52.53 seconds) to qualify for the final and aim for her first individual world medal.
Luke Greenbank and Brodie Williams missed the cut in the men's 200m backstroke, finishing 9th and 12th overall respectively.
In high diving, a non-Olympic sport, Britain's Aidan Heslop completed the most difficult dive in world championship history and won his first world title.
The 21-year-old scored 151.90 points on his final dive from 27 meters, giving him a total of 422.95 points, ahead of France's Gary Hunt (413.25 points), who won silver, and Catalin-Petr Preda, who took bronze (413.25 points). 410.20 points) and won the gold medal.
Britain has won three gold, four silver and eight bronze medals at the World Aquatics Championships.
Stevens makes history in Doha
A British woman has not won an individual world title since Rebecca Adlington in 2011, but Stevens' victory makes her the first British woman to win a world medal in the 200m butterfly event.
It was also Great Britain's first swimming gold medal at the Qatar Championships.
Stevens, who lives in London, won silver in the same event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, but has never won a medal at a world championships before.
She led the race from start to finish, but with 50 meters to go she pushed hard and took second place with a time of 2:07.44, ahead of Denmark's Helena Bach and Bosnia and Herzegovina's Lana Pudal (third place). 2 minutes, 7.92 seconds).
“I think we did well. It's all about the Olympics this summer and we're still working towards that, which is great, but we still have a lot of work to do,” Stevens said.
All three medalists competed in the finals of the 2023 World Championships, but failed to reach the podium.
Meanwhile, none of last year's medal winners competed this year, as some of the world's top swimmers opted not to compete in Doha, choosing instead to focus on training for the Paris Olympics.