Hertfordshire's Max Whitlock has won his first senior individual European Championships medal after he claimed silver in today's all-around competition in Moscow.
The 20-year-old British champion who competes for South Essex Gymnastics club scored a total of 89.106 across the six pieces of apparatus to finish narrowly behind Russian David Belyavskiy, with Oleg Verniaiev of Ukraine in bronze.
The double Olympic medal winner Max Whitlock was greeted by cheering crowds as he returned to his Essex raining base.
The Hemel Hempstead gymnast returned to the South Essex Gymnastics Club in Basildon to show off his two bronze medals.
Max, who won in both the team gymnastics event and in the individual pommel horse, said his achievements were still sinking in.
Double Olympic medal winner Max Whitlock is to have his achievements celebrated by his home town.
The gymnast who won two bronze medals at London 2012 is to be presented with a gift at a special reception in Hemel Hempstead
The presentation will take place this weekend at the town's Civic Centre.
The 19-year-old, from Hemel Hempstead, Herts, took the first British men's gymnastics team medal since 1912 alongside Louis Smith, 23, Sam Oldham, 19, Daniel Purvis, 21, and Kristian Thomas, 23 when they claimed bronze on July 30.
Whitlock, who still lives in Hemel Hempstead, then went on to win Olympic bronze in the men's pommel horse, six days later.