Out on her own/muir soars to double-double

Laura Muir crosses the line almost four seconds ahead of her nearest rival in the 1500m at the Emirates in Glasgow last night to follow her triumph in the 3,000m and complete an unprecedented second successive European Indoors double. The Scot, who repeated her 2017 Belgrade success, won in four minutes, 05.92 seconds.

now,” she declared. “It’s a matter of maintaining now and making improvements where I can. Since finishing my degree, we’ve made improvements in a few areas but they can always be improved more. Nothing’s ever going to be perfect. There are little things and it’s matter of working really hard over the six months until Doha.” The other Scottish middle-distance hope, Neil Gourley, saw his ambitions in the men’s 1,500m derailed by an illness that forced him to withdraw. He sat out an extraordinary LAURA MUIR upset as Poland’s Marcin Lewandowski claimed his third European Indoor title by relegating precocious Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen into second place.

However, Eilidh Doyle, right, claimed her 14th major championship medal in some style by anchoring the hosts to silver in the women’s 4x400 relay, the last part of a record medal count of 12 for GB&NI that saw them trail only Poland in the final table with a total of four gold, six silvers and two bronzes.

Doyle was accompanied on to the podium by Aberdonian Zoey Clark, Laviai Nielson and Amber Anning.

Shelayna Oskan-clarke, a silver medallist in Belgrade two years ago, went one better with a march to gold in the women’s 800 metres with the 29-yearold Londoner relentlessly heading the field. “I loved the feeling of crossing the finish line knowing I’d won gold,” she declared. “I decided beforehand I wanted to go out and focus on getting out in front because I wanted it to be a bit quicker. I would then just work really hard on the third lap. I knew at 150m I just wanted to go, and remembered to pump my arms and turn my legs.”

Chemistry teacher Jamie Webb took a shock silver in the 800m behind de Arriba with Irishman Mark landing bronze. The 24-year-o works at a school in south Lond irate after his disqualification month’s British trials but dogge on.

“I only really got parental supp was at a point where I thought y look back in ten years and think was never as good as I wanted to be, or I take the bit between my teeth and crack on,” he admitted. “That’s the attitude I have had for a year and a bit. If yo want to do it you can.”

Holly Bradshaw couldn’t quite her 2013 victory in Gothenb cleared 4.75m to earn silver in t vault behind Russia’s Anzhelika va, while Tim Duckworth took the heptathlon, scoring 6156 p trail Spain’s Jorge Urena.

The night, however, was rig Muir’s.

“It’s special. I set myself a big task this weekend and as it came closer and closer, I was thinking ‘what have I done?’ People were getting world leads and national records and the fields were much stronger than last time. But there was no way I wasn’t winning in front of this crowd and I’m so pleased I could do that”