{"id":5594,"date":"2022-08-07T19:40:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T19:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/08\/07\/commonwealth-games-laura-muir-captures-1500m-title\/"},"modified":"2022-08-07T19:40:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T19:40:37","slug":"commonwealth-games-laura-muir-captures-1500m-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=5594","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Games: Laura Muir captures 1500m title"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Muir added the Commonwealth title to Olympic silver and World bronze in a stellar year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/thead>\n\n\n\n
Hosts: <\/strong>Birmingham <\/span>Dates:<\/strong> 28 July to 8 August<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Coverage:<\/strong> Watch live on BBC TV with extra streams on BBC iPlayer, Red Button, BBC Sport website and BBC Sport mobile app; Listen on BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra; live text and clips online.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Scotland’s Laura Muir won the Commonwealth 1500m crown with a remorseless display that ground her rivals to dust in her wake.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The 29-year-old wound up the pressure with 500m to go and, despite the best efforts of Northern Ireland’s Ciara Mageean, no-one could live with her.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Muir finished in four minutes 2.76 seconds to add to her 800m bronze and win Scotland’s 12th title of the Games.<\/span><\/p>\n

Team-mate Eilish McColgan claimed silver with a gutsy run in the 5,000m. <\/span><\/p>\n

McColgan, who won the 10,000m title on Wednesday, found herself with the Kenyan pair of Beatrice Chebet and Selah Busienei for company in the closing stages.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Eilish McColgan and Beatrice Chebet embraced after the Kenyan triumphed over 5000m<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 31-year-old fought hard for track position amid the spikes and elbows, but had no answer when the diminutive Chebet made a startling burst 200m from home.<\/span><\/p>\n

World silver medallist Chebet claimed victory in 14:38.21 – nearly four seconds clear of McColgan.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It was such a high and it honestly has been so overwhelming,” McColgan, speaking to BBC Sport, said of her 10,000m victory. <\/span><\/p>\n

“There’s been so many athletes and staff from all nations telling me that they watched me, cheering me on and now every time I go to the dining room I’m just crying.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’m so tired mentally and physically but I’m so proud of myself.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We saw Laura [Muir’s race] in the call room – it just spurred me on hearing the crowd cheering for her in the last 200m – and I felt it too today.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Jemma Reekie, Muir’s training partner, friend and some-time flat-mate, could not join her on the 1500m podium. She finished fifth, but was first to congratulate her team-mate on her victory.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead Mageean and Australia’s Abbey Caldwell collected medals alongside Muir, who now has another high point in a stellar 12 months.<\/span><\/p>\n

A year and a day ago, she landed Olympic silver in Tokyo after a succession of near-misses in major finals. <\/span><\/p>\n

Last month, she followed up with bronze at the World Championships in Eugene. <\/span><\/p>\n

Just yesterday, she came third in a slug-fest of an 800m final.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Commonwealth gold scratches a particular itch – Muir missed Gold Coast 2018 to take her veterinary exams and finished 11th in Glasgow 2014 after being clipped in the final. <\/span><\/p>\n

“You learn from it and your time will come,” she told BBC Sport. <\/span><\/p>\n

“It sounds cheesy but it’s true. Eight years of Commonwealths and it’s been bugging me so this means a lot.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Muir’s year is not over yet either – in a little over a week in Munich, she will attempt to defend the European title that she won in Berlin four years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

Scotland’s haul of gold medals at this Commonwealth Games now eclipses their total at every Games, bar Glasgow 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pattison wins 800m bronze to underline potential<\/h3>\n
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Pattison, who won European under-20 silver three years ago, claimed bronze in the 800m<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the 800m final that followed Muir’s victory at the Alexander Stadium, England’s Ben Pattison underlined his potential by taking bronze in a high-class field.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 20-year-old finished third in 1:48.25, as Kenya’s Wycliffe Kinyamal defended his title under pressure from Australia’s Peter Bol.<\/span><\/p>\n

Max Burgin, another English prospect and the fastest man in the world this year, missed the Commonwealth and World Championships <\/span>after picking up a deep vein thrombosis on his way to Oregon.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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