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 she is winning all 15 of her major senior medals.

5. 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships - 1500m gold
Muir defended her 1500 indoor title in Glasgow in 2019. Photo: BEN STANSALL

6. 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships - 3000m gold
She became the first althlete in history to win a double-double at the European Indoors after defending her 3000m title in Glasgow. Photo: ANDY BUCHANAN

7. 2023 European Athletics Indoor Championships - 1500m gold
Another record broken in Istanbul in 2023 - winning the European Indoor 1,500m final saw her become the first athlete to win five medals at the event. Photo: Dan Mullan

8. 2018 World Indoor Athletics Championships - 1500m silver
Muir came second to Ethiopia's Genzebe Dibaba to take a silver medal at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Athletics Championships in Birmingham. Photo: ADRIAN DENNIS

