Nice Britain’s Laura Muir will probably be introduced along with her retrospective 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships bronze medal this weekend.
The Scot was 21 when she completed fourth within the 3,000m in Prague, but was upgraded to bronze in January after race winner Yelena Korobkina of Russia was discovered responsible of doping offences.
Now 31, Muir will obtain her medal on the Lindsays Brief Course cross-country occasion at Kirkcaldy on Saturday.
“I can not emphasise or clarify how a lot it means to the athletes to have the outcomes rectified and the medals awarded to those that compete inside the guidelines of our sport,” stated Muir.
“So I’m very excited to see that specific European Indoors 2015 medal at Kirkcaldy and it’ll have a proud place alongside my different sporting accomplishments.”
Sviatlana Kudzelich of Belarus has had her silver medal upgraded to gold and Netherlands’ Maureen Koster takes silver.
Korobkina was banned for 4 years from September 2023, and had her outcomes between July 2013 and July 2016 expunged after being discovered responsible of doping final yr.
