Laura Muir (born 9 May 1993) is a Scottish middle- and

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. She is the 2020 Tokyo Olympic silver medallist in the

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, having previously finished seventh in the event at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Muir won the bronze medal at the 2022 World Championships, and has three other top five placings in 1500 m finals at the

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, finishing fifth in

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, fourth in

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(where she was also sixth in the

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) and fifth in

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. She is the

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and

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European 1500 m champion as well as the

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1500 m champion and

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bronze medallist. Indoors, she is a two-time 2018 World Indoor Championship medallist, earning silver at 1500 m and bronze at

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, and a four-time European Indoor champion, winning the 1500 m/3000 m double in

and

as the first athlete in history to achieve the 'double-double' at a European Indoor Championships. Muir first broke the British record in the 1500 metres in July 2016. She set the current record in 2021 at the Tokyo Olympics, which ranks her in the world all-time top 15. In 2017, she broke the European indoor records at both the 1000 metres and

, and also set a British record for the indoor

. Muir added a British record at the 1000 m in 2020, and the next year, she also broke the Scottish record in the

. Her best time for the

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, ranks her in the world all-time top 20. Muir is also a two-time 1500 m

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winner. She is a multiple British champion.

Early life

Born on 9 May 1993 in

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, Scotland, Laura Muir was raised in

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since age three. She attended Kinross High School, the same school as 400 m hurdler

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along with her brother Rory who is two years younger than her. She studied

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at the

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, graduating in 2018. One of her lecturers was

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, distance runner and teammate at the

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Hayley Haining Hayley Haining (born 6 March 1972 in Dumfries) is a British runner who was nominated as a reserve for the British team for the 2008 Olympic Games. Running career Haining won the British schools cross-country championship in 1985 when she was thir ...

Career

Muir made her international debut at 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

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in Moscow Muir represented

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in the

; she reached the semi-finals with a personal best time of 2:00.83. In July 2014, at the

event in

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, she ran 4:00.07 in the

to break Yvonne Murray's 27-year-old Scottish record. The same month, she competed in this event at the

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, but was clipped from behind with 100 m to go and placed 11th with a time of 4:14.21. Muir failed to qualify from the 1500 m heats at the

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in August with a time 4:14.69. She called her run "a messy race". She finished fifth over the 1500 m at the 2015 World Championships held in

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in a time of 4:11.48.

2016

On 22 July, Muir broke

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' British record for the 1500 metres with a time of 3:57.49 to win the

event in London's Olympic Park. The 2016 Rio Olympic Games were unsuccessful for her, as initially slow tactical 1500 m final race turned nearly into a speed test, and placed third with 150 m to go she faded to seventh at the finish line in 4:12.88. The winner,

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of Kenya in 4:08.92, ran last two laps in the fast 800 m races pace of 1:57.2. Less then two weeks later, on 27 August, Muir showed her potential, however, beating her UK record by more than two seconds with a world-leading time of 3m 55.22s to win the event at the Diamond League meet in

. A few days later, she became only the third British woman to win a Diamond Trophy as she won the 1500 m title with a second-place finish in

, with the third fastest ever mark by a Briton. She overtook Kipyegon in seventh and won with her in the overall standings. Her mark from Paris made her the fastest woman in the world over 1500m for the year.

2017

On 4 January, racing the

for the second time ever, Muir broke 25-year-old British indoor record held by her fellow Scot

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, clocking 14m 49.12s in Glasgow. She was the only competitor as it was a mixed 3K race. Exactly a month later, she set a European indoor

record in

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in a time of 8m 26.41s, beating Russian Liliya Shobukhova's mark by 1.45 seconds and reigning Olympic 5000 m silver medallist Hellen Obiri. On 18 February, Muir broke the European indoor 1000 metres record at the

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. With her time of 2m 31.93s (within a second of the world record), she beat Russian Yuliya Chizhenko's European record and Kelly Holmes’s British best. 1500 women final London 2017

Muir continued her record-breaking form in March, dominating at the European Indoor Championships in

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. She took gold in the 1500 m event, breaking Kelly Holmes’s British record and

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's 32-year old championship best along the way, and followed it up by taking a second title in the 3000 m event with another championship record the next day. She became only the second woman to achieve this double at the European Indoor Championships after Poland's Lidia Chojecka, and only the second UK athlete after

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to win two European Indoor titles at the same event. She doubled up outdoors at the

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held in London, finishing fourth in the 1500 m and sixth in the 5000 m. Over the shorter distance Muir clocked 4:02.97 losing by only 0.38 s to the winner, Faith Kipyegon, and by just 0.07 s to South Africa's

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in third;

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of USA finished second. Following the championships, she announced that she would miss the

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in April in order to focus on her veterinary medicine exams.

2018

In March, Muir competed at the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, where she won the bronze medal in the 3000 m, followed by a silver medal in the 1500 m two days later. Both events were won by Ethiopia's multiple world record-holder

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. In first Muir lost to

Sifan Hassan Sifan Hassan ( om, Siifan Hassan; born 1 January 1993) is an Ethiopian-born Dutch middle- and long-distance runner. She completed an unprecedented triple at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics winning gold medals in both the 5000 metres and 10,000 metres, ...

representing the Netherlands in a blanket finish by 0.1 s, but she won with Hassan by more than a second over 1500 m. In August, she won the 1500 metres title at the European Championships Berlin 2018, her first-ever major outdoor medal as the first British woman ever to win the European 1500 m gold. She followed this breakthrough by securing her second

title over 1500 metres in

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, her first since the move of the series to a championship format. Muir produced one of the most impressive wins of her career, beating three of the four fastest women in the world that year (

Shelby Houlihan Shelby Houlihan (born February 8, 1993) is an American middle distance runner, Olympian and World Record holder in the 4x1500m relay who is currently serving a ban. Houlihan competed in the 5000m final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, finishing ...

, Hassan and

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2019

In February, Muir broke the 31-year-old British indoor

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record held by

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by more than five seconds, stopping the clock at the world third-fastest time of 4:18.75 at the Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix. She was 1.61 s short of a European record. In March, she became the first athlete in history to achieve the 'double-double' at a European Indoor Championships as she defended both her 1500 m and 3000 m titles at Glasgow 2019, improving her own championship record at the longer distance. Muir finished fifth over the 1500 m at the Doha World Championships in a time of 3:55.76.

2020–21

During first

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season in 2020, Muir broke Kelly Holmes' British record for the 1000 metres by almost two seconds in a time of 2m 30.82s, when finishing second behind Kipyegon at the

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. She won all her three 1500 m races (

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Diamond League,

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), with all times under 3:58.50. She also recorded victories in two of her six 800 m competitions (

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). On 9 February 2021, she came up with a good start to her season in

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, France, becoming the first British woman to break the four-minute barrier for the indoor 1500 metres, and taking the record back from fellow Scot

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. Muir finished second behind Gudaf Tsegay with a time of 3m 59.58s to move to fifth on the world indoor all-time list. Over 1500 m she then won the USATF Grand Prix in Eugene,

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, and came third in

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Diamond League (behind only Hassan and Kipyegon). At the end of June, she lost to both

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and Reekie in the 800 m at the British Championships in 2:00.24 to set a personal best of 1:56.73 in July, when winning the Monaco Diamond League. At the delayed

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in August 2021, Muir won the silver medal in the 1500 metres in a time of three minutes 54.50 seconds, improving her own British record. She beat reigning world champion in the event, Sifan Hassan (3:55.86), finishing behind only Kipyegon who ran 3:53.11. It was Scotland’s first individual Olympic medal in any track event since the 1988 Seoul Games, when Liz McColgan won 10,000 m silver.

2022

During the indoor season, Muir was unable to run for two months due to a stress fracture of her right femur, which occurred in February. Despite this, at the World Championships Eugene 22 in July, she emerged after a tough race as a bronze medal winner. She ran her third-fastest time ever for a 1500 m race with 3:55.28, finishing behind Tsegay in 3:54.52 and Kipyegon who claimed gold in 3:52.96. About two weeks later, Muir completed in just a 24-hour span the 800 m/1500 m double at the XXII Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, earning bronze in
photo-finish
in the 800 m (0.01 s ahead of

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and behind

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and Hodgkinson) and, in the absence of Kipyegon, winning decisively gold for the 1500 m. The 29-year-old continued her fine season successfully defending her 1500 m European title just 12 days after her Commonwealth gold. Muir dominated the

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at the European Championships Munich 2022. She capped her medal-winning season on the road in September, with another strong showing and a course record of 4:14.8 at the New York's

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. Her time, the fastest in the event's 41-year history, would place her fourth on the world all-time list if it was achieved on the track. There was a Scottish sweep as

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won the men's race for the third time.

2023

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's world record of 2:30.94.

Achievements

All information taken from

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profile.

Personal bests

International competitions

Xcountry 4x1k Relay 0290 (39538593424) (cropped)

Circuit wins and titles

winner (1500 m):

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Diamond League champion (1500 m):

– 1500m: Oslo Bislett Games **

– 1500m: London Anniversary Games ( (),

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( MR NR) **

– Birmingham British Grand Prix (1000m PB), Brussels Memorial Van Damme (1500m) **

– 1500m: Stockholm Bauhaus-Galan, London Anniversary Games **

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– 1500m: Stockholm Bauhaus-Galan (WL) **

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– Gateshead British Grand Prix (1500m), Monaco Herculis (800m () **

– Birmingham British Grand Prix (1500m) * World Continental Tour **

: Marseille Meeting Pro Athlé Tour (Bronze standard, 800m), Chorzów Kamila Skolimowska Memorial (Gold standard, 1500m),

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(Gold standard, 800m), Berlin ISTAF (Silver standard, 1500m) **

: Eugene

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Grand Prix (Gold standard, 1500m), Irvine, CA Track Meet (Bronze standard, 800m) * World Indoor Tour **

: Karlsruhe Meeting (3000m, ),

(1000m, AR}) **

: Birmingham Indoor Grand Prix (Mile, NR) **

: Glasgow Indoor Grand Prix (1000m)

National championships

* British Championships titles ** 800 m:

** 1500 m:

* British Indoor Championships titles ** 800 m:

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** 1500 m:

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** 3000 m:

Scottish Championships

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titles ** 1500 m: 2012 * Scottish Indoor Championship titles ** 800 m: 2012, 2018 * Scottish University Championship titles ** 400 m: 2013 * Scottish University Indoor Championship titles ** 400 m: 2012, 2013 ** 800 m: 2012, 2013, 2016 ** 1500 m: 2018

Awards and honours

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** Cliff Temple Award for British Female Athlete of the Year: 2017, 2022 (jointly with

Eilish McColgan Eilish McColgan (born 25 November 1990) is a Scottish middle- and long-distance runner. She is the 2022 Commonwealth Games 10,000 metres champion with the Games record, and 5000 metres silver medallist. McColgan is a four-time European Champio ...

) *

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** Sportswoman of the Year: 2020 *

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** Athlete of the Year: 2015, 2016, 2018, 2021 ** Performer of the Year: 2020 (with

and

) * Scottish Sports Awards ** Female Athlete of the Year: 2022 * Glasgow's Sport Awards ** Glasgow Sportsperson of the Year: 2022 * British Milers' Club ** BMC Female Athlete of the Year: 2022

Miscellaneous

In 2022, one of the new streets in Muir's home town

was named in her honour.

Notes

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Muir, Laura 1993 births Living people Sportspeople from Perth and Kinross Sportspeople from Inverness Scottish female middle-distance runners British female middle-distance runners Olympic female middle-distance runners Olympic athletes of Great Britain Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games competitors for Scotland Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games World Athletics Championships athletes for Great Britain European Athletics Championships winners European Athletics Indoor Championships winners British Athletics Championships winners Diamond League winners Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medallists for Great Britain Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field) Scottish Olympic medallists Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Scotland Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Scotland Commonwealth Games medallists in athletics Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Alumni of the University of Glasgow Scottish veterinarians 20th-century Scottish women 21st-century Scottish women