Laura Muir

Laura Muir
	Muir after her 3000 m win at the 2017 European Indoor Championships in Belgrade
Personal information
Born	9 May 1993 (age 31); Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom
Education	University of Glasgow (2018)
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
Weight	49 kg (108 lb)
Sport
Country	Great Britain & N.I.; Scotland
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Middle-, Long-distance running
Club	Dundee Hawkhill Harriers & Glasgow University; Nike
Coached by	Andy 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	800 m: 1:56.73 (Monaco 2021); 1000 m: 2:30.82 NR (Monaco 2020); 1500 m: 3:53.37 (Paris 2024); Mile: 4:15.24 NR (Monaco 2023); 3000 m: 8:30.64 (Monaco 2017); 5000 m: 14:48.14 (Paris 2023); Indoors; 800 m: 1:58.44i (Glasgow 2020); 1000 m: 2:31.93i AR (Birmingham 2017); 1500 m: 3:59.58i NR (Liévin 2021); Mile: 4:18.75i (Birmingham 2019); 3000 m: 8:26.41i AR (Karlsruhe 2017); 5000 m: 14:49.12i NR (Glasgow 2017);
Medal record
Women's athletics
Representing Great Britain
Olympic Games
World Championships
World Indoor Championships
Diamond League
European Championships
European Indoor Championships
European U23 Championships
European Cross Country Championships
Representing Scotland
Commonwealth Games

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.

^ Laura Muir Archived 5 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine. ScotStats. Retrieved 2015-01-19.
^ "Athlete Profile - Laura Muir". Power of 10.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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.

[1] Laura Muir Archived 5 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine. ScotStats. Retrieved 2015-01-19.

[powerof10-2] "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.

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