{"id":8468,"date":"2026-02-22T16:45:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/muir-wins-scottish-cross-country-gold-again-14-years-later\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T16:45:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:15:04","slug":"muir-wins-scottish-cross-country-gold-again-14-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/muir-wins-scottish-cross-country-gold-again-14-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Muir wins Scottish cross-country gold again, 14 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Published45 minutes ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Laura Muir enjoyed a winning return to the Scottish cross-country championships, 14 years after her last appearance at the event.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old Olympic medallist finished 13 seconds clear in the 10km race at Callendar Park, Falkirk.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It was a long race for me,&quot; said Muir who picked up the Under-20 gold medal at the same venue in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It was a wee bit of a step back into the unknown in terms of cross-country. But I knew I was very fit at the moment and I am pleased to have shown that.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Scout Adkin and Naomi Lang [second and third] are world-class hill runners and Scout ran a brilliant race &#8211; she really pushed it on. Any technical bit, or uphill, I was losing ground so I had to dig in at times.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Thankfully I did that and then used my speed over the closing stages to get clear and win.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Talking to Scottish Athletics, Muir added: &quot;When I stood here 14 years ago after winning the U20 title I had no idea what was to follow in my career. I don&#x27;t think I could have envisaged the medal success.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It seems to have flashed by and so much has happened on and off the track. I&#x27;ve won medals at all six championships [indoor and out, European, World, Olympic and Commonwealth] which has been wonderful, but not something you really foresee.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It has been so nice to come back here and win a Scottish title and enjoy such a warm reception.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Crowe won the men&#x27;s race for the fourth time.<\/p>\n<h2>Related topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/athletics\">Athletics<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muir wins Scottish XC 14 years on from last appearanceImage source, Scottish AthleticsImage caption, The win over 10km was the longest race in Muir&#x27;s professional careerPublished45 minutes agoLau&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}