Hansen's gold-medal display raised the roof in Birmingham

Ashia Hansen and Marlon Devonish sent the Birmingham crowd into ecstacy as they won gold medals within minutes of each other at the World Indoor Championships.

Devonish, for so long the forgotten man of British sprinting, survived an anxious wait on the blocks after two false starts from Allyn Condon to power to the 200m title.

Hansen showed her fighting spirit by leaping to a spectacular 15.01m in the fourth round of the triple jump when all had seemed lost.

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The 1999 world indoor champion opened her bid for triple jump gold with a season's best 14.77m in the first round, only for Francoise Mbango of Cameroon to sail out to 14.88m to take the lead.

Hansen then had to re-mark her run-up after officials inadvertently moved her marker - and with her preparations hampered by a nagging foot injury, it seemed as if her chance had gone.

But, just as she had done at the Commonwealths and Europeans last summer, she produced her best when the heat was on.

"This is fantastic - I can't believe it," said Hansen afterwards. "I didn't think I could make it to the final.

Jackson had no problem qualifying from his heat on Saturday

"I've got a lot of problems with my foot. I've been pumped full of pain-killers and anti-inflammatories to get me through the day.

"When someone moved my mark I got really angry, and my coach (Aston Moore) had to tell me to calm down.

"He told me that I had to just go for it. I told myself not to panic and I kept repeating to myself, 'stay relaxed'.

"I had been overdoing it in earlier rounds - but lo and behold, I did it."

Midlander Devonish won the 200m in 20.62secs, coming away from Joseph Batangdon of Cameroon and Dominic Demeritte of the Bahamas with an injection of pace on the home straight.

"I wasn't going to do the world indoors, and now I'm walking away with a gold medal," said a disbelieving Devonish.

"I'm very pleased. I've been the hare throughout this championships but I knew I could do it."

Devonish, out in lane six, ran his own race despite pressure from the inside lanes and accelerated away to his first major track title.

It ended a great day for British athletics, with Daniel Caines qualifying for Sunday's 400m final as favourite and Colin Jackson making it through to the final of the 60m in his last appearance of a long and distinguished career.