World bronze medallist Jenny Meadows produced Britain's best performance with third place in the women's 800m.
World champion Andre Bucher of Switzerland and Poland's world bronze medallist Pawel Czapiewski also qualified.
Indeed he would be within striking distance of a bronze medallist, Ms Edith Bosch.
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Olympic heptathlon bronze medallist Kelly Sotherton was fourth with a personal best of 8.21.
Borough mayor George Walton presented the Olympic bronze medallist with the award at a nursery school in Sandbach.
Birmingham's Gamal, 18, pulled off an upset win over Ireland's 54kg World Championship bronze medallist John Joe Nevin.
Olympic bronze medallist Sanya Richards ran the fastest women's 400m of the year to win gold in 49 seconds.
Becky Lyne, the European 800m bronze medallist and Jo Pavey (3, 000m) carry British hopes on day two in Stuttgart.
Team captain Jenny Meadows, bronze medallist at the World Championships last summer, will be going for 800m gold on Sunday.
British quartet Marlon Devonish, Commonwealth bronze medallist Darren Campbell, Christian Malcolm and Julian Golding will be challenging in the 200m.
The 23-year-old will be up against world bronze medallist Wallace Spearmon, Britain's Marlon Devonish and Ireland's Paul Hession in the 200m.
However, there was disappointment for Liverpool light-flyweight Tommy Stubbs, who was comfortably beaten 8-1 by Belfast's Beijing bronze medallist Paddy Barnes.
Other highlights saw Chris Brown, twice the bronze medallist, finally win the 400m in 45.96s, while Deresse Mekonnen defended his 1, 500m title.
Scot Colin McNeil, bronze medallist four years ago, also went out when he was outclassed 19-3 by excellent South African Kwanele Zulu.
On the undercard, Dublin's Olympic bronze medallist Darren Sutherland stopped Siarhei Navarka of Belarus in the third round in his second pro fight.
"I never saw Liz give anything less than 100% in any race she competed in, " said Foster, a former Olympic 10, 000m bronze medallist.
The southpaw Irishman, a World Championships bronze medallist in his amateur days, showed impressive hand-speed and seemed to edge the first three minutes.
It is doubly surprising since Taylor is a former Olympic bronze medallist and a former undisputed middleweight champion who has beaten Bernard Hopkins twice.
In doing so, Davies slashed 12.09 seconds off his previous best and was only 5.23secs shy of Olympic bronze medallist Graeme Smith's British record.
Britain's Andrew Turner, last year's Commonwealth and European 110m hurdles bronze medallist, defied a false start to win the men's 60m hurdles in 7.69.
Great Britain's short track speed skating squad, including 1994 bronze medallist Nicky Gooch, reckon they can put in a fine showing in Salt Lake City.
Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu has another chance to take on world champion Sanya Richards in the 400m, while world bronze medallist Jenny Meadows goes in the 800m.
His opponent in the last eight, Artayev, won the welterweight gold medal at the 2004 Games in Athens and was the middleweight bronze medallist at the 2007 World Championships.
Williams, 400m hurdles European bronze medallist at Gothenburg in 2006, won the Welsh championships in Cardiff in a time of 49.89 secs - just outside the 26-year-old's season's best.
The 34-year-old, who won world bronze in Helsinki in 2005 and silver in Paris in 2003, secured her first global title by edging out Canada's Olympic bronze medallist Priscilla Lopes-Schliep.
But several high-profile figures, including Olympic and world heptathlon bronze medallist Kelly Sotherton, Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell and ex-London mayor Ken Livingstone have questioned switching its use from athletics to football.
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Last year's bronze medallist Johnny Bellis, came in 77th.
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Germany also took gold in the women's javelin, Linda Stahl throwing a personal best of 66.81m, with Olympic bronze medallist Christina Obergfoll taking silver and Olympic champion Barbora Spotakova of the Czech Republic bronze.
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Beijing bronze medallist Tony Jeffries also criticised the organisation after signing pro forms with Dennis Hobson last week, although ABA chief executive Paul King said it "has no responsibility for the elite boxing programme".
Australian cyclist Jayme Richardson-Paris - a bronze medallist in Beijing - is currently preparing for London 2012 with her compatriots at the Newport Velodrome, also a training base for the GB and US Paralympic cyclists.
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