Welsh lightweight Joe Cordina led the way by winning gold at the European Championships in Sofia as Great Britain produced their best-ever medals haul at the event.

Cordina, 23, won a Commonwealth Games bronze in Glasgow last year but finished top of the podium in Bulgaria by overcoming Georgia's Otar Eranosyan in a unanimous points decision.

Four other British boxers from a seven-strong team reached the finals at their respective weights, with Harvey Horn, Muhammad Ali, Qais Ashfaq and Pat McCormack all winning silver.

Leeds bantamweight Ashfaq, 22, fell just short in his bid to gain revenge over Northern Ireland's Michael Conlan in a repeat of their Commonwealth Games final last year.

Olympic bronze medallist Conlan was handed the verdict on points after a cagey encounter.

Light-flyweight Horn, 19, and light-welterweight McCormack, 20, lost their respective finals to Russian opponents.

Horn was beaten by Vasilii Egorov and McCormack by Vitaly Dunaytsev, while Ali, 19, also had to settle for silver after losing out to Bulgarian top seed Daniel Panev Asenov. All three were boxing in their first senior European Championships.

Light-heavyweight Joshua Buatsi won bronze to take GB's medals tally to six with all medal-winners assured of a place at October's World Championships in Doha.

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