Born in Inverness in 1993, Laura Muir was raised in the small town of Milnathort where she was educated at Kinross High School, beofre sudying veterinary medicine at the University of Glasgow.
She originally competed in cross country runnning and was part of the victorious Great Britain junior team at the 2011 European Cross Country Championships.
Her success at middle-distance running began at the Moscow 2013 World Championships where she reached the semi-finals.
Since then she has seen most success in the 1500 metres, first breaking the British record in 2016 and holding the current record set in 2021. It puts her in the list of the world’s all-time top fastest runners at the distance.
Her trophy cabinet holds a 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games 1500m silver medal, a 2022 World Championship bronze, two European 1500m golds, and gold and bronze medals from the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Indoors, she won her record fifth European gold medal in Istanbul this year and also took silver and bronze medals in the 2018 World Indoor Championship (in the 1500m and 3000 respectively).
Her double golds in the 1500m and 3000m in the 2017 and 2019 European Indoors were the first time any athlete has done the ‘double-double’ in history.
Here are 11 quotes from Scotland’s track champion.
9. Laura Muir on...childhood ambitions
“I’d always wanted to be a vet when I was younger. I never thought about being a professional athlete or winning the Olympics. I never dreamed about it. It was that far from what I thought I could achieve. Now I see it is possible." Photo: Ryan Pierse
10. Laura Muir on...being part of Team Scotland
"I know Jake (Wightman) and Eilish (McColgan) very well and several of the other Scots too. We are really good friends and it was lovely to see them doing well. I follow their progress in races a lot even when I’m not there and tune in to watch their races. We support each other and we’re good friends as well as teammates." Photo: Dan Mullan
11. Laura Muir on...her ambitions
"Just to run faster, to get my times faster. I am very happy with where my times are now but if I could get them faster that would be great. So to try to get more medals and improve the colors of the medals. I’m now in the very fortunate position of having done a lot of things. I have accomplished more than I’ve ever dreamed of. It’s just still trying to get that little bit better." Photo: BEN STANSALL