Scotland’s Daniel Keatings is Great Britain's first all-around world medallist after scooping silver at the World Gymnastics Championships in London.

The 19-year old produced a masterful display of 88.925 to place second behind Japan's Olympic silver medallist and overwhelming favourite Kohei Uchimura, with Russia's Maxim Devyatovskiy claiming bronze.

Having finished 20th at the Olympics last year, the Kettering-born teeanger has come of age this season, striking all-around silver at April's European Championships in April.

But despite qualifying fourth highest for the final, few were expecting Keatings to place so high in a competition which also featured Olympic bronze medallist Benoit Caranobe.

Even Keatings himself insisted he didn't consider himself a medal-contender.

"I'm absolutely over the moon with the silver," said Keatings, who represented Scotland at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.

"I came here hoping to make the final so to finish with a medal is incredible, I’m speechless really.

"It wasn't a great start with my performance on the floor but I managed to pull myself together for the rest of the apparatus.

"I'm looking forward to 2012 now. The crowd helped me keep my head up and pushed me along and this has given me a taste of what it will be like in three years time.

"I know the expectation will be on me to perform at the Olympics but I'm ready to take on all the hard work that I need to do. I want to push my routines even further to see what I can do."