Laura Muir is set to receive her latest international medal in a field in Fife tomorrow – nine years after the race took place.
Working with partners at European Athletics, UK Athletics are grateful to Scottish Athletics for staging a special medal presentation at the Lindsays Short Course XC at Kirkcaldy.
Muir will be presented with a bronze medal from the 2015 European Indoors following a change to the podium after a doping violation by the original gold medallist.
🥉 After nine years, Laura Muir will finally receive her 2015 European Indoors bronze medal following a podium reshuffle due to a doping violation by the original gold medallist. UKA Chair Ian Beattie will present the medal to Laura after the Senior Women’s race at the Lindsays… pic.twitter.com/WxWRUQzhPH
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UKA Chair Ian Beattie will present the medal to Muir following the senior women’s race at the Lindsays Short Course XC.
The triple Olympic finalist was only 21 years in Prague in 2015 when finishing fourth in the Women’s 3000m final. A medal at the time would have marked her first significant international success.
Muir said, “I would like to say a massive thank you to all those involved in the process which results in the medal now being awarded to me.
“I cannot emphasize or explain how much it means to the athletes to have the results rectified and the medals awarded to those who compete within the rules of our sport.
“So I am very excited to see that particular European Indoors 2015 medal at Kirkcaldy and it will have a proud place alongside my other sporting accomplishments.”
European Athletics Indoor 2015 race winner, Yelena Korobkina, was found guilty of doping offences last year, the Russian athlete was banned for four years from September 2023. Her results are now expunged for a period of three years (from July 2013 to July 2016).
As well as Muir receiving the newly-issued Bronze medal, Gold now belongs to Sviatlana Kudzelich of Belarus and Silver for Maureen Koster of Holland.
