ANTICIPATION is building ahead of the first of the medals being decided at the 2015 World Gymnastics Championships in Glasgow this evening.

A crowd several hundred strong lined up outside the warm-up gym at the SECC to show their support for the Great Britain women as they arrived to begin their preparations.

USA is the favourite to defend their world title at the SSE Hydro tonight with Russia, China, Italy, Japan, Canada and the Netherlands also in action.

Since the start of the competition on Friday more than 30,000 people have watched the world's top gymnasts in action.

To date more than 54,000 tickets have been sold with a limited number remaining for some sessions.

The women's individual all-around final on Thursday evening is already sold out.