Laura Muir

Laura Muir
Muir after her 3000 m win at the 2017 European Indoor Championships in Belgrade
Personal information
Born (1993-05-09) 9 May 1993 (age 31)
Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom
EducationUniversity of Glasgow (2018)
Height1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight49 kg (108 lb)
Sport
CountryGreat Britain & N.I.
Scotland
SportAthletics
Event(s)Middle-, Long-distance running
ClubDundee Hawkhill Harriers & Glasgow University
Nike
Coached byAndy Young (2011–2023)
Alan Mackintosh (–2011)
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals
  • 2016 Rio de Janeiro
  • 1500 m, 7th
  • 2020 Tokyo
  • 1500 m,  Silver
World finals
  • 2013 Moscow
  • 800 m, 9th (sf)
  • 2015 Beijing
  • 1500 m, 5th
  • 2017 London
  • 1500 m, 4th
  • 5000 m, 6th
  • 2019 Doha
  • 1500 m, 5th
  • 2022 Eugene
  • 1500 m,  Bronze
  • 2023 Budapest
  • 1500 m, 6th
Personal bests

Laura Muir (/mjʊər/; born 9 May 1993)[1][2] is a Scottish middle- and long-distance runner. She is the 2020 Tokyo Olympic silver medallist in the 1500 metres, having previously finished seventh in the event at the 2016 Rio Olympics.[3] Muir won the bronze medal at the 2022 World Championships, and has three other top five placings in 1500 m finals at the World Athletics Championships, finishing fifth in 2015, fourth in 2017 (where she was also sixth in the 5000 metres) and fifth in 2019. She is a two-time European 1500 m champion from 2018 and 2022 as well as the 2022 Commonwealth Games 1500 m champion and 800 metres bronze medallist.[4]

Indoors, she is a two-time 2018 World Indoor Championship medallist, earning silver at 1500 m and bronze at 3000 metres, and a British record five-time European Indoor champion, including the 1500 m/3000 m double in 2017 and 2019 as the first athlete in history to achieve the 'double-double' at a European Indoor Championships. With Muir's fifth title for the 1500 m in 2023, she became the first ever Brit to claim five golds at the event, increasing her overall tally to seven European titles.[5]

Muir first broke the British record in the 1500 metres in July 2016. She set the current record in 2024 in a Diamond League meeting in Paris, which ranks her in the world all-time top 15. In 2017, she broke the European indoor records at both the 1000 metres and 3000 metres, and also set a British record for the indoor 5000 metres. Muir added a British record at the 1000 m in 2020, and the next year, she also broke the Scottish record in the 800 metres. Her British record time for the Mile run in 2023, ranks her in the world all-time top 10. Muir is also a two-time 1500 m Diamond League winner. She is a multiple British champion.

  1. ^ Laura Muir Archived 5 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine. ScotStats. Retrieved 2015-01-19.
  2. ^ "Athlete Profile - Laura Muir". Power of 10.
  3. ^ Bloom, Ben (6 August 2021). "Laura Muir wins Olympic 1,500m silver with gutsy run to end string of near misses". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  4. ^ Bloom, Ben (24 December 2021). "Olympic silver medallist Laura Muir: 'Hopefully I'll be one of those crazy people running marathons when they are 80'". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
  5. ^ Wilson, Jeremy (4 March 2023). "Laura Muir breaks new ground with fifth European Indoor gold". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 4 March 2023.