Laura Muir

2022 - 7 - 19

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Britain's Laura Muir emerges from 1500m slugfest with world bronze (The Guardian)

Laura Muir claimed a brilliant bronze medal in an extraordinary 1500m final in Oregon as Kenya's Faith Kipyegon added another gold to her collection.

“Then the goal was to make the final of all six, and I’ve done that. “My daughter means everything to me,” said the Kenyan. “When I look at her every morning I work hard and believe in myself. They had been due to come to the world indoors in Birmingham in 2018 before the Beast of the East struck, while last year’s planned trip to the Tokyo Olympics was aborted due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Now she only needs a podium place at next month’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham to have obtained medals from all the major championships. If I’d got to the finish having not given my all and lost I’d have been absolutely devastated.” “When I started in my running career I wanted to run all six champs, I’ve done that,” she said. The uncompromising mood of the race was established from the gun, with Tsegay charging to the front like a Pamplonian bull eyeing its first victim. She was still on the floor five minutes later – longer than the race itself – waiting for the fire in her lungs and legs to extinguish, when a kindly official slipped a bronze medal around her neck. The three continued to scrap it out until Kipyegon broke her rivals’ spirit with 200m to go to quadruple-plate her greatness with a fourth global title. It was the longest time I’ve had off running since starting.” By then two groups had already formed with two Ethiopians, Tsegay and Hirut Meshesha, alongside Kipyegon and Muir in front. The toughest race of her life, she called it.

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Even so it was in an area of the bone where you do have to offload it a lot.” “I was diagnosed with a stress reaction of the femur start of February, that was two weeks on crutches. I just knew I had to have a lot of confidence in myself and my team that we would be able to get back that. I was very, very tired when I did get to the line but that’s what you want to be, knowing you’ve given absolutely everything. If I’d got to the finish line, not given absolutely everything and lost I’d have been absolutely devastated.” “That’s what happened in London 2017, I was second and came fourth.

'All about the medal' - Britain's Laura Muir battles to bronze in 1500m ... (Eurosport.com)

Britain's Laura Muir battled to a hard-earned bronze medal in the 1500m at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon.

That was an extra level." I am so pleased. World Championships

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She said: "One more, I've got the Commonwealths to get. Even so it was in an area of the bone where you do have to offload it a lot." If I'd got to the finish line, not given absolutely everything and lost I'd have been absolutely devastated." "That's what happened in London 2017, I was second and came fourth. "I was diagnosed with a stress reaction of the femur start of February, that was two weeks on crutches. I just knew I had to have a lot of confidence in myself and my team that we would be able to get back that.

Laura Muir claims GB's first medal at the World Athletics Champs in ... (Runner's World (UK))

The Olympic silver medalist ran a brilliantly brave race, as she locked in battle with Kenya's reigning Olympic champion, Faith Kipyegon and Gudaf Tsegay of ...

'I'm so delighted, it was all about this, that's what I wanted was this world medal. If I can do 3:55 off those kind of splits, there's a really fast time in there. Afterwards, she told BBC Sport:

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I was very, very tired when I did get to the line but that’s what you want to be, knowing you’ve given absolutely everything. Even so it was in an area of the bone where you do have to offload it a lot.” “That’s what happened in London 2017, I was second and came fourth. “I was diagnosed with a stress reaction of the femur start of February, that was two weeks on crutches. I just knew I had to have a lot of confidence in myself and my team that we would be able to get back that. “It was the most significant injury I’ve ever had in my running career.

World Athletics Championships: GB get their first medal as Laura ... (CBBC Newsround)

Laura Muir has won Great Britain's first medal at the World Athletics Championships with bronze in the 1500m race.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson finished in eighth place in the heptathlon. I am so pleased." Elsewhere in the competition, Katarina Johnson-Thompson finished eighth in the heptathlon.

Laura Muir reveals brutal physical cost of winning World ... (Mirror.co.uk)

Flying Scot endured the hardest race of her life and ran her fastest ever time to cement her place as one of Britain's middle-distance greats.

“I knew after the first couple of 100 metres it was going to be fast,” she added. As the sun set on the fourth day of competition it was clear she had buried herself for the cause. “It was the most significant injury I’d ever had,” she said. “Now I want to win a medal at all six and it’s five down one to go. “Everything hurt,” she said as an ‘instant’ bronze medal, Britain’s first of these World Championships, was handed to her. my legs were just on fire, I felt like I couldn’t lift them, I was running in treacle.

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