IT HAS been a show-stopping spectacle seeing the world’s top gymnasts descend on the SSE Hydro.

This weekend marks the final two days of action at the 2015 World Gymnastics Championships.

The record-breaking event has welcomed 594 competitors from 87 countries – the most high-profile sporting extravaganza to be held in Scotland since the Commonwealth Games and Ryder Cup last year.

Today will see Scotland’s Daniel Purvis and Max Whitlock compete on the floor as the individual apparatus finals take place. Max will also be on the pommel horse alongside Olympic silver medallist Louis Smith.

No British man has ever won a world gold medal, but that could all change in the next 48 hours.

This afternoon will also see Ellie Downie contest the vault, with Ruby Harrold on asymmetric bars.

Great Britain’s medal haul already includes a historic team silver for the men and bronze for the women.

Tomorrow will see Nile Wilson in the parallel bars final, with Ellie Downie and four-time Commonwealth Games champion Claudia Fragapane competing on the floor.

USA’s superstar Simone Biles, who has already won two golds, will have three more medal chances as she tackles the vault, beam and floor.

The venue has been dramatically transformed in a bid to take the spectator experience to dizzying new heights, with gymnasts entering the arena accompanied by billowing fire and thumping music.

In a first for the event, there is also premium floor seating, which allows fans to come eye-to-eye with their favourite gymnasts as the competition unfolds.

“This is how gymnastics should have been presented at every competition,” said Nadia Comaneci, who made history as the first gymnast to score a perfect 10, at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal.

Ticket sales have now passed 55,000, with the women’s individual all-around final on Thursday evening selling out, as 6500 people packed into the SSE Hydro.