Daniel Purvis will have Glasgow on his mind as he competes at the 45th World Championships which begin at the Guangxi Sports Centre in Nanning, China, on Friday.
Not only will he have drawn confidence looking back at individual gold in the parallel bars and team silver at the Commonwealth Games this summer but, he will be looking ahead, as the city hosts the World Championships for the first time next year.
The top eight teams - in both men's and women's events - in Glasgow will qualify for Rio 2016 and Nanning represents the first step of the qualifying process.
Purvis, whose only individual medal at a World Championships was as a 19-year-old in Rotterdam four years ago, is keen to get back on the podium in Nanning.
Last year, he was in the frame to repeat that bronze medal on the floor at the championships in Antwerp but the final competitor, Japanese teenager Kenzo Shirai, flipped the standings to take gold and move Purvis down to fourth.
"Going in to it I just wanted to enjoy it and then as it progressed I thought: 'I can get quite close here' and was really happy to nail my routine, my best of the championships," he recalled.
"I'd been strong all week and I was really satisfied and proud of my World Championships. I knew that Shirai was last up so enjoyed being in third for a while but knew realistically he is at another level."
Purvis was also seventh in the all-around in Antwerp and the competition is just as stiff this year with Japan's Kohei Uchimura going for an unprecedented fifth title.
The British team is stronger than ever with England's triple Commonwealth gold medallist Max Whitlock looking to improve on his pommel horse silver in Antwerp.
Scotland's Dan Keatings, Commonwealth champion and twice European champion on the pommel, is bidding for his first world medal since silver in the all-around in 2009.
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