Christian McNeish is already relishing the thought of his next competition after picking up his first bronze medal at the World Taekwondo Grand Prix in Moscow.
The London-born fighter battled his way to the semi-finals in the -68kg category, facing 2015 World Champion Jaouad Achab of Belgium along the way
McNeish knocked-out Abolfazl Yaghoubijouybari of Iran 16-11 and Argentine Lucas Guzman 11-9 in a thrilling triumph, before coming up against Achab in the final eight – where he led 8-0 but the Belgian had to withdraw after the first round.
The former kickboxer then came up against Rio 2016 silver medallist Alexey Denisenko where he was narrowly beaten 15-17 by the home favourite.
But the 20-year-old was happy with his performances in the Russian capital and cannot wait to get back out on the mat.
He said: "I'm happy that I've achieved something new, but there are still higher and better things to aim for.
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"I would have liked to have reached the Final and won it – but it wasn't meant to be. I will hopefully do better at the next World Taekwondo Grand Prix."
Elsewhere on Sunday Rachelle Booth reached the last 16 of the -57kg division in Moscow before agonisingly being eliminated on a golden point to Belgium's Raheleh Asemani, who went on to pick up a bronze medal.
Booth had defeated Croatia's Marija Stetic 42-30 in round one before going down to the Olympian by the narrowest of margins.
And in the -68kg category, Peter Longobardi-Radford was unable to progress through the first round as he lost to Mahammad Mammadov from Azerbaijan 5-7.