Bowhill Miners Boxing Club star Niamh Mitchell has made further history by claiming a second overseas gold medal in just three weeks.
The 19-year-old last month travelled to the international Bocskai Tournament, in Hungary, to represent Scotland, and came home with the lightweight (60kg) title.
That success saw Niamh become the country's first female, senior gold medal winner at an overseas multi-nation event - and followed it up with a second on Sunday.
She travelled to Finland to compete in the prestigious Gee Bee Tournament, held in the country's capital, Helsinki, with a Boxing Scotland contingent, and produced a performance her coach described as a "career best".
Having won four bouts on her way to success at the Bocksai competition, Niamh made it five on the trot, against Kazakhstan's Anar Tursynbek, to open her campaign in Finland.
That put her into a semi-final with Italy's Ginevra Muzzi, who was also defeated, to set up a final with the Netherlands' Maud van der Toorn.
It was a repeat of a round of 32 bout at the inaugural World Boxing Championships, which were held in Liverpool, that took place in September last year.
The event was the first elite world championships organised by World Boxing, and the first global event to feature men's and women's events simultaneously, and saw Niamh lose narrowly on a split decision, having been deducted a point for holding in the second round.
This time, though, former world youth champion van der Toorn was powerless to stop Niamh, who claimed the victory via unanimous decision.
Her coach at Bowhill, James White, said: "That's a much harder tournament she's went into.
"It's a much higher level.
"The quarter-final was against a Kazakhstani lassie, who was pretty good, but the semi-final was against a former European junior and youth champion, and she's, she's won there.
"The final was against the world youth champion, who she lost to in Liverpool. The referee took a point off her, so, she was right up for that one.
"She made her look pedestrian, to be honest with you. That's how good she was/
"In the first round alone, she's landed 20 clean backhands. What a performance.
"That's a career best performance in that one fight. Absolutely tremendous."
Niamh is no stranger to making history, having become the first female to win gold for Scotland at an international competition, by winning the 52kg light bantamweight category at the EUBC (European Boxing Confederation) European Junior Championships.
Since then, in addition to her triumphs in Hungary and Finland, she has also gone on to win GB Three Nations gold, and a silver medal at the USA Boxing Summer Festival, last year.
The Commonwealth Games, which will take place in Glasgow between July 23 and August 2, is also in her sights, with White adding: "Barring bad luck, she's got to be there.
"She's done it again. She boxed absolutely superb. That's twice in the space of a month that she's done it.
"That there, that final especially, she was just outstanding. Absolutely outstanding.
"It's got to be a career best performance. Obviously, the European final, was massive, but, on a boxing perspective, that one there, it's just getting better and better."
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