It's exciting to see British athletes continuing to produce breakthrough performances on the world stage, particularly when it is achieved in a sport in which we have not traditionally enjoyed widespread Olympic medal success.

The hat-trick of medals won by Britain's gymnasts - in the shape of Beth Tweddle, Louis Smith and Dan Purvis - on Saturday at the World Championships in Rotterdam is a tribute to everyone involved at British Gymnastics, and bodes well for London 2012.

I was particularly delighted to see Beth claim the third world title of her career. At the age of 25 she is a relative veteran in the youthful world of gymnastics. But she continues to produce outstanding performances and is a great role model and mentor to the younger gymnasts aiming to follow in her footsteps.

The fact that both the men's and women's teams qualified for the finals - both finishing in seventh position - is a demonstration of the strength in depth that has been developed in British gymnastics.

Earlier this month Britain's equestrian riders also produced ground-breaking results at the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky, USA - with a team gold medal after a 16-year gap for the eventing team, alongside a first individual World Championship medal for William Fox-Pitt and the first British team dressage world medal.

The dressage competition saw Laura Bechtolsheimer achieve another first for Britain - two individual silver medals with a personal best in the Freestyle and a British record in the Grand Prix Special.

The tremendous success enjoyed by these British athletes has not happened overnight.

Both sports serve as great examples of what can be achieved when a well managed National Governing Body, with a solid high-performance plan, skilled coaches and talented, determined athletes, all come together.

Next up is the World Rowing Championships, which begin in New Zealand on Sunday (October 31) and will feature a 61-strong team of British rowers in action.

Britain has consistently been a dominant force in world rowing since Steve Redgrave was a fresh-faced youngster. The sport has contributed gold medals to the Team GB tally in every Olympic Games since LA 1984 - outstanding consistency.

I have no doubt British Rowing will continue to be a world-leading outfit and in two years' time will be well placed to thrill the home crowds at Eton Dorney with more Olympic success.

Of course, many of our Olympic sports had their attention focused on the Commonwealth Games in Delhi over the past month.

It was exciting to see so many young athletes from across the UK producing fine performances - especially in the swimming and diving pools where competition was particularly strong.

According to my maths, if the four home nations results were combined, the UK recorded 198 medals, including 51 gold - that's more medals than any other country and a huge number of athletes from our shores who can now relate to the proud feeling of standing on the podium at a major multi-sport competition.

Most importantly from our point of view, many athletes will have gained their first experience of a multi-sport environment and living in an athletes' village, which will help ready them for future Olympic Games.

I'm delighted that Team England's Chef de Mission Craig Hunter will now join us at the BOA and act as one of my five deputy Chef de Missions for Team GB at London 2012. I'm convinced his knowledge and experience will be a great asset to our team.

Craig will be in charge of our Preparation Camps strategy and in the weeks leading up to London 2012 will oversee Team GB's Preparation Headquarters at Loughborough University.

It's exciting times at the BOA. The organisation is changing, adapting and improving at a Usain Bolt-like speed.

Today there are 641 days until the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

As Carol Vorderman would tell you - continuing the maths theme - 641 is a prime number, and here at the BOA we are priming the organisation to successfully deliver the largest delegation to an Olympic Games in more than a century.

It's great to know that British athletes are in prime condition too.

Andy Hunt is the chief executive of the British Olympic Association and Team GB Chef de Mission for London 2012