The 26-year-old arrived in the Dutch city having already won eight World Championships medals but none of them gold.

She finally got her hands on an elusive world title, clocking a time of 2min 54.369sec.

Canada's Marianne St Gelais was forced to settle for the silver, 0.12 seconds adrift, while Olympic gold medallist Shim Suk-hee of South Korea took the bronze.

Christie decided to skip the ISU European Short Track Speed Skating Championships earlier this year to focus her preparation on this weekend’s competition and it paid dividends as she powered to an impressive win.

The Briton  was unable to replicate the feat in the 500m as Olympic silver medallist Kexin Fan reigned supreme in a time of 43.605sec.

St Gelais, leader of the overall classification, added another silver medal to her collection by finishing second, while Kim Ji-yoo of South Korea did enough for bronze.

Christie was fourth.

Sjinkie Knegt of The Netherlands continued his impressive form as he wrapped up the men's 500m title by clocking 41.832 to beat Wu Dajing of China.

Wu crossed the line narrowly behind Knegt, the Olympic 1,000m bronze medallist, and Seo Yi-ra of South Korea clinched the bronze.

Multiple World Championships medallist Sin Da-woon delivered a title for the usually dominant South Korean team as he sealed victory in the men's 1,500m race.

Sin, overall world champion in 2013, stopped the clock at 2:16.919 to edge Canada's Samuel Girard.

Seo claimed his second medal of the day with a bronze.

Knegt leads the way in the men's overall classification, with the event in Rotterdam due to close tomorrow.