Laura Muir
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 United Kingdom
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| Born | 9 May 1993 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 800 metres, 1500 metres, 3000 metres | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Dundee Hawkhill Harriers & Glasgow University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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800 m: 2:00.67 (Birmingham 2014) 1000m 2:31.93i AR (Birmingham 2017) 1500 m: 3:55.22 NR (Paris 2016) 3000 m: 8:26.41i AR (Karlsruhe 2017) |
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Laura Muir (born on the 9th of May 1993 in Inverness, from Milnathort) is a British middle distance runner who specialises in 800m, 1500m, 3000m and 5000m races. She became British record holder over 1500m in June 2016 for the first time at the London Diamond League.
Muir 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.
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