Laura to receive her European Indoors 2015 bronze medal at Kirkcaldy

Wednesday 30th October 2024

Laura Muir celebrates European Indoor medals in 2017 on her arrvial back in Scotland from Belgrade (photo by Bobby Gavin)

Laura Muir to land bronze medal from Euro Indoors 2015

By Peter Jardine, Head of Communications

Laura Muir will receive her latest international medal in a field in Fife tomorrow – more than nine years after the race.

Working with partners at European Athletics and UK Athletics, scottishathletics are thrilled to be staging a special medal presentation at the Lindsays Short Course XC at Kirkcaldy.

Laura will be presented with a bronze medal from the 2015 European Indoors following a change to the Women’s 3000m podium at that event after a doping violation by the original gold medallist.

Ian Beattie, Chair of UK Athletics, will hand over the medal to Laura after the Senior Women’s race at the Lindsays Short Course XC as we seek to right an athletics wrong (on behalf of European Athletics).

The triple Olympic finalist was only 21 years of age in Prague in 2015 when finishing fourth in the Women’s 3000m final. A medal at the time would have been her first significant international success.

Please come along to Dunniker Country Park for the Lindsays Short Course XC and support both the event and Laura’s medal moment (between 1.30pm and 2pm).

Kirkcaldy event preview

‘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,’ said Laura.

‘I cannot emphasise 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.’

Euro 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) and had results expunged for a period of three years (from July 2013 to July 2016).

That timespan thus covers the 2015 European Indoors and Laura now receives the newly-issued bronze medal with gold for Sviatlana Kudzelich of Belarus and silver for Maureen Koster of Holland.