Laura Muir’s brave effort clinches 1500m bronze medal at World Championships

Laura Muir revealed she nearly missed the World Championships – after clinching a brilliant bronze.

The Scot claimed her first outdoor world medal after sealing third in the 1500m at Hayward Field on Monday night.

She clocked a season’s best of three minutes 55.28 seconds at Hayward Field on Monday evening to finish behind Kenya’s Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon and Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay.

Yet Muir was on crutches in February after a stress reaction to her femur in her right leg and admitted it was touch and go she would even make it to Eugene.

“It was the most significant injury I’ve ever had in my running career. For two months I couldn’t run,” she said, after adding to her Olympic silver medal from last year. “That was very, very frustrating, especially as I was going so well in January.

“With the champs being almost a month earlier than normal as well it meant I had about three months less time to prepare than normal. So not ideal. I just knew I had to have a lot of confidence in myself and my team that we would be able to get back that. We did it and we got that medal.

“I was diagnosed with a stress reaction of the femur start of February, that was two weeks on crutches. Then another six weeks of just in the pool, in the gym, alt-Gs, anti gravity treadmills, tiny runs on grass, slightly longer runs. We gradually got there.

“We were lucky we caught it early. We knew something wasn’t right. We got some advanced imaging. We found out what it was quite quickly. Had it been a fracture it would have been me out for a long, long time.

“It was lucky not was a stress response. Even so it was in an area of the bone where you do have to offload it a lot.”

In Oregon, Muir was involved in a breakaway with Kipyegon, Tsegay and