Double Diamond for Muir the marvel

LAURA MUIR produced arguably the finest 1500m performance of her career in Brussels to become the first British athlete to win two Diamond League titles last night — but Reece Prescod was forced to settle for fourth in the 100m final. Prescod delivered his fourth legal sub-10sec run of the season but was utterly blown away by American Christian Coleman, who scorched to the seventh fastest time in history in 9.79sec. It was the quickest run of the year and put him a street ahead of secondplaced US team-mate Ronnie Baker. Yohan Blake was third, in front of British champion Prescod, who crossed in 9.99sec. Defending champion CJ Ujah was seventh. The best British showing of the night came from Muir, who retained the title she won in 2016. In a high-class field, she was part of a breakaway group with Gudaf Tsegay, Shelby Houlihan and Sifan Hassan, who had driven through the night to take part after racing the 5000m in Zurich on Thursday. Muir broke with 300m remaining and held off Houlihan to cross in 3min 58.49sec, adding the Diamond League title to European gold and two medals from the world indoors. It has been a stunning season for the 25year-old. Britain’s Shara Proctor followed her European bronze medal with an impressive second place in the long jump after leaping 6.7m with her penultimate attempt, 10cm shy of Colombia’s Caterine Ibarguen, the Olympic triple jump champion. Lorraine Ugen, who is ranked No 1 in the world in 2018, was way short of her best in sixth on 6.53m.