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The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games saw Team England return to the top of the medal table for the first time since 1986.
With a staggering 174 medals, including 58 golds, the Games brought a wealth of silverware for Team England athletes across all sports.
From history making antics to the start of iconic sporting careers, here are five of the most magical storylines from Glasgow 2014.
Claudia Fragapane's golden Games
Claudia Fragapane became the first Englishwoman to win four golds at a single Commonwealth Games for 84 years in Glasgow.
The artistic gymnast was just 16 when made a glittering name for herself at her maiden Games, topping the podium in the team, all-around, vault and floor events
Swimmer Joyce Cooper was the previous Englishwoman to win four golds in 1930.
Fragapane opened her gold rush in the team event alongside Becky Downie, Ruby Harrold, Kelly Simm and Hannah Whelan.
She then led an all-around English cleansweep, with Harrold and Whelan joining her on the podium once again, before scores of 14.633 on the vault and 14.541 on the floor catapulted her to subsequent victories and wrote her name into the history books.
Adam Peaty's emergence
Adam Peaty is now a household name but back at Glasgow 2014, he was a teenager ready to emerge onto the international scene in style.
Peaty triumphed in the 100m breaststroke in Glasgow, in a new Commonwealth and British record of 58.94secs, to finish ahead of favourite South Africa's Cameron van der Burgh and Scotland's Ross Murdoch.
It was Peaty's first international senior title and marked the beginning of a four year 100m winning streak which saw him become Olympic champion and a multiple world record holder in the years after.
Add that to gold in the men's 4x100m medley relay and silver in the 50m breaststroke and Peaty was well and truly on his way to sporting stardom.
Nicola Adams makes boxing history
It's not fresh news that Nicola Adams is a history maker in the world of boxing.
But Glasgow 2014 saw the Leeds-born fighter take another step into the record books with the first-ever women's Commonwealth boxing gold.
Just two years after Adams rocketed onto the scene with Olympic victory in London, flyweight gold in Glasgow cemented her name as a boxer for the ages.
Adams cruised through the opening rounds and knockout stages before coming face-to-face with Northern Ireland's Michaela Walsh in the final. And she sealed gold for Team England with victory at the SEC Centre in Glasgow.
Terrific triathlon success
Team England cemented their status as triathlon heavyweights with mixed triathlon relay gold in Glasgow.
Despite England having never medalled in traithlon at a Commonwealth Games before Glasgow, the quartet of Alistair Brownlee, Jonathan Brownlee, Jodie Stimpson and Vicky Holland rewrote the history books in Scotland.
The English team completed the 400m swim, 6km cycle, and 1.6km run course in a total time of one hour 13 minutes 24 seconds to clinch an impressive victory, with their closest competitiors of South Africa a full 49 seconds behind.
It closed the door on a fruitful Games for English triathlon with individual success for Brownlee and Stimpson as well as silver and bronze for the younger Brownlee and Holland respectively.
Greg Rutherford returns from injury to glory
After a difficult year on the international circuit, Greg Rutherford returned to the top of the podium with gold at Glasgow.
The long jumper had memorably stormed to Olympic victory on Super Saturday at London 2012 but saw a series of injuries set him back and he missed out on the World Championship final in 2013.
But Rutherford, who won silver for Team England at Delhi 2010, produced a third round effort worthy of his Olympic champion status to take the gold.
After his second round jump of 8.12 metres was matched by South Africa's Zarck Visser, Rutherford leaped to a standard of 8.20m that his rivals could not threaten and proved he could still mix it with the best in the world.
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