European record holder Laura Muir hopes to “go one better” in the 1,000m at next month’s World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Birmingham.
Muir took Olympic silver in the 1500m in Tokyo last year and set her European indoor 1,000m mark of two minutes 31.93 seconds in the Midlands in 2017.
Mozambique’s Maria de Lurdes Mutola is the world indoor record holder, having posted 2:30.94 in Stockholm in 1999.
“I had an incredible year in 2021,” said 28-year-old Scot Muir.
“I would love to try and go one better and break the world indoor record.
“It won’t be an easy record to break – it has stood since 1999 – but the track is fast and the crowd in Birmingham are great, so hopefully I can run it close.”
