Nationality Great Britain Sport Athletics | Name Laura Muir | |
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Born 9 May 1993 (age 30) ( 1993-05-09 ) Club Dundee Hawkhill Harriers & Glasgow University Personal best(s) 800 m: 2:00.67 (Birmingham 2014))
1500 m: 3:58.66 (Monaco 2015)
3000 m: 8:49.73 i (Karlsruhe 2015) Events 800 metres, 1500 metres, 3000 metres Similar People Eilidh Child, Laura Weightman, Lynsey Sharp, Chris O'Hare, Stephanie Twell Profiles | ||
Residence Scotland, United Kingdom | ||
Laura muir impressing with a gold in the 1500m
Laura Muir (born 9 May 1993) is a Scottish middle-distance runner. She specialises in the 800m, 1500m, 3000m and 5000m. After first breaking the British record in the 1500m at the London Diamond League in July 2016, she further improved it to 3:55.22 a month later at the Paris Diamond League. She went on to break the European indoor records at both 1000m and 3000m in 2017.
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- Laura muir impressing with a gold in the 1500m
- Laura muir tells us how it felt to go sub 4 minutes for the first time in monaco
- Career
- References
Muir represented Great Britain at the 2016 Olympic Games, while in the World Championships 1500m finals, she finished fifth in 2015 and fourth in 2017. She is also a two-time European Indoor champion, winning the 1500m/3000m double in 2017.
Laura muir tells us how it felt to go sub 4 minutes for the first time in monaco
Career
Born in Inverness, Muir lives in Milnathort. She made her international debut in the 2011 European Cross-Country Championships, when she was part of the Great Britain junior women's team that won gold. At the end of the year, she was a nominee in the Daily Record Young Athlete of the Year awards.
At the 2013 World Championships in Athletics Muir represented Great Britain in the 800 metres, she reached the semi-finals with a personal best time of 2:00.83. At the 2014 Diamond League event in Paris, she ran 4:00.07 in the 1500 metres, to break Yvonne Murray's 27-year-old Scottish record. At the 2016 Diamond League event at the Olympic Park in London 22 July she ran 3:57.49 for 1500 metres to break Dame Kelly Holmes' British record. On 27 August 2016, at the Paris Diamond League meet, she lowered her Personal Best and the National 1500m record to 3:55.22 Her time also made her the fastest woman in the world over 1500m for the year. In 2016, she became only the third British woman to win a Diamond League title as she won the 1500m title in Zurich. She broke the British 1000m record formerly held by Dame Kelly Holmes at the Birmingham indoor Grand Prix with a time of 2:31.93 (within a second of the world record) on 18 February 2017. She also broke the British Indoor 5000m record on the 4th of January in a time of 14.49.12 (only her second ever time running that distance) At the 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships in Belgrade, Muir took gold in the 1500 metres, breaking Doina Melinte's 32-year old championship record along the way, and followed it up by taking a second title in the 3000 metres with another championship record the next day.
Muir finished 4th in the 1500m and 6th in the 5000m at the 2017 World Athletics Championships. Following the Championships, she announced that she would miss the 2018 Commonwealth Games in order to focus on her veterinary medicine exams.
Muir attended Kinross High School, the same school as 400m hurdler Eilidh Doyle along with her brother Rory (2 years younger) who is also a promising 800m runner. She is also a student of veterinary medicine at the University of Glasgow where one of her lecturers has been veterinary pathologist, distance runner and teammate at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Hayley Haining.