England captured women's team gold after seeing off the challenge of Australia ©Getty Images

Cool-headed teenager Ondine Achampong landed her decisive final vault to clinch women’s artistic gymnastics team gold for England at the Commonwealth Games here.

Australia mounted a strong challenge and threatened to snatch victory as they trailed by just 0.05 going into the last apparatus at the Arena Birmingham.

But England’s gymnasts held their nerve to secure gold 24 hours after the host nation won the men’s team title.

Despite being the youngest member of England's five-strong women’s team at the age of 18, Achampong was entrusted with the responsibility of taking the final vault.

It was a call that could have backfired for England but Achampong handled the pressure superbly, producing the best vault of the night, chalking up a score of 14.150 points.

Alice Kinsella and Georgia-Mae Fenton also showed nerves of steel in the last apparatus, scoring 13.900 and 13.150 respectively.

England, whose team also featured Kelly Simm and Claudia Fragapane, topped the standings in all four rotations to rack up a winning score of 161.100.

Australia pushed the hosts all the way but fell just short, taking silver with 158.000, while the bronze medal went to Canada who scored 152.700.

Ondine Achampong delivered a superb final vault to seal gold for England ©Getty Images
Ondine Achampong delivered a superb final vault to seal gold for England ©Getty Images

It was Fragapane's fifth gold as she recovered from a series of injury setbacks to claim her fifth Commonwealth Games gold - eight years after winning four at Glasgow 2014.

Fragapane delivered a stirring final floor exercise routine before embracing her teammates.

"This is definitely our last Commonwealth Games because we’re not going to go on for four more years," said Fragapane.

"I’ve had four major injuries so just to get back and do it again was my main goal.

"I shouldn’t have come back so quickly but I pushed myself to get here.

"I’ll take it one step at a time - I’ve got to be careful with this fragile body now."

While helping England win gold, the team-mates were also battling it out for qualification places in the individual apparatus and all-around finals.

Kinsella topped the all-around qualifying standings with 54.450, finishing ahead of Achampong who scored 53.750, while Australia’s Georgia Godwin placed third with 53.650.

Scotland’s Shannon Archer holds top spot in the vault with 13.500, Fenton leads the uneven bars with 14.000, Godwin notched the best balance beam score with 13.600 and Kinsella produced the highest-scoring floor exercise routine with 13.450.

Competition is due to continue tomorrow.