The pair are ranked 15^th in the International Table Tennis Federation's mixed doubles rankings, and were up against Hungary's 23^rd-ranked Nandor Istvan Ecseki and Dora Csilla Madarasz in the match for gold.

Qiu and Mittelham proved too strong for their opponents, taking just 27 minutes to triumph 11-9, 11-6, 13-11.

That ensured they qualified as one of the 16 pairs for the mixed doubles tournament at Paris 2024.

Romania's Ovidiu Ionescu and Bernadette Szocs had earlier beaten Spain's Alvaro Robles Martinez and María Xiao Yao 11-6, 11-8, 9-11, 11-9 for bronze.

It was a quieter day of medal events than the first four at Kraków-Małopolska 2023, but European Olympic Committees President Spyros Capralos watched his compatriot Anna Korakaki of Greece win the first gold of the day in the women's 25 metres pistol at the Wrocław Shooting Centre.

Korakaki scored 27 from eight series to beat Antoaneta Kostadinova of Bulgaria by one, with Germany's Doreen Vennekamp completing the top three with 18 from six series.

Georgia's Nino Salukvadze was fourth in the final, but the 54-year-old secured a Paris 2024 quota place which could make her the first woman to appear at 10 Olympic Games.

Jenny Østre Stene of Norway won the second shooting gold of the day with a 17-13 victory in the women's 50m rifle three positions final against Natalia Kochańska of Poland, while on the range Simona Scocchetti and Gabriele Rossetti of Italy beat Cyprus' Anastasia Eleftheriou and Andreas Chasikos 6-4 to triumph in the mixed team skeet.

The Rzeszów Diving Arena was the venue for a British double, as Amy Rollinson and Desharne Bent-Ashmeil won the women's 3m synchronised springboard final on the last dive with a score of 279.90 points, and Ross Haslam notched 422.95 to win the men's 1m springboard by more than 11 points ahead of Alexis Jandard of France.

In fencing at the Tauron Arena in Kraków, Dzhoan Bezhura of Ukraine beat Poland's Martyna Swatowska-Wenglarczyk 15-12 in the women's épée final, but Michal Seiss provided a gold for the hosts with a 15-13 win against Denmark's Jonas Winterberg-Poulsen in the men's foil decider.

Taekwondo competition concluded at the Krynica-Zdrój Arena today, and it was a successful one for Turkey who won two golds.

Seventeen-year-old Sude Uzuncavdar overcame Nadica Božanić of Serbia in the women's under-73kg final, and recently crowned world champion Nafia Kus triumphed in the women's over-73kg against Poland's Aleksandra Kowalczuk.

Croatia's world silver medallist Ivan Sapina won the men's under-87kg final against Slovenia's Patrik Divkovic, while Britain's Caden Cunningham triumphed in the men's over-80kg against Olympic runner-up Dejan Georgievski, who won North Macedonia's first medal of Kraków-Małopolska 2023.

Day six of the European Games tomorrow is set to feature medal events across nine sports, including the end of breaking, muaythai and rugby sevens and the start of summer ski jumping and triathlon.