The World Championships in Berlin were a landmark for the GB & NI team as they pulled off their most impressive performance since 1993.
The team returned with a good haul of six medals including two Gold, 11 personal bests from nine athletes and 20 top-eight position finishes.
Jessica Ennis took the World Heptathlon Gold medal with a score of 6731, 238 ahead of German Jennifer Oeser, who took silver with 6493 points.
Phillips Idowu laid to rest the ghost of his Olympic disappointment with a superb triple jump of 17.73m, overcoming Portuguese opponent Nelson Evora in an unforgettable competition and walking away with the Gold medal.
Jenny Meadows sprang a stunning surprise on the high-class field by snatching bronze in the women’s 800m final.
The men’s 4 x 100m relay team (Simeon Williamson, Tyrone Edgar, Marlon Devonish and Harry Aikines Aryeetey) produced a super-slick operation to take Bronze on the penultimate afternoon in a season's best of 38.02.
In the 1,500m final Lisa Dobriskey produced the performance so many people knew she was capable of when taking the Bronze medal after an aggressively run final.
Former SPAR star Martyn Rooney (pictured) helped bring Britain’s medal total to six in the men’s 4 x 400m. The foursome (Conrad Williams, Michael Bingham, Rob Tobin and Martyn Rooney) sprung a surprise on the opposition by taking away the Silver medal.
The ones to watch
A number of up-and-coming athletes really put themselves on the radar in Berlin. These were:
Greg Rutherford, who broke the British long jump record in the qualifying round and came 5th in the final.
William Sharman, who came 4th in the final at his first World Championships, making a world-class breakthrough.
Perri Shakes-Drayton, the British Junior record-holder, who is being compared to Olympic champion Sally Gunnell, and made the semi-finals in Berlin.
Chris Clarke (pictured above, centre), who won the European Junior 400m title this summer and had a surprise call-up for the 4 x 400m relay squad in Berlin, becoming the youngest member of the team.