European Indoor Championships: Laura Muir and Shelayna Oskan-Clarke win gold for Great Britain

European Indoor Championships: Laura Muir and Shelayna Oskan-Clarke win gold for Great Britain


Science teacher Webb, 24, began the rush of silver medals when he produced another aggressive run to finish second behind Spain’s Alvaro de Arriba.

Webb attacked from the start and was only passed by De Arriba on the final lap, the Spaniard winning in a time of 1:46.83 seconds.

“There was a point last year I wasn’t getting funding,” Webb told BBC Sport, after crossing the line in 1:47.13. “I was 23 and I worked my socks off to make something of it. There’s no excuse not to do it.”

Ireland’s Mark English took bronze. He earned a spot in the final after British team captain Guy Learmonth was judged to have impeded him in their semi-final.

In the women’s pole vault, Blackburn Harrier Bradshaw had to settle for silver behind the impressive Russian Anzhelika Sidorova.

Bradshaw failed to clear 4.85m which Sidorova, competing in Glasgow as a neutral, managed to do with her first attempt. Greece’s Nikoleta Kiriakoupolou took bronze, while her compatriot, the Olympic, world and defending champion Ekaterini Stefanidi, only cleared 4.65m.

In the heptathlon, Duckworth was in a battle with Russian neutral athlete Ilya Shkurenyov and Swede Fredrik Samuelsson for the places behind eventual winner Jorge Urena.

The Spaniard led the event going into the 1,000m – the final event – with Duckworth needing to finish no worse than four seconds behind his rivals. The Briton, who was born and raised in the United States, achieved the task and recorded the highest finish by a British heptathlete in this competition.

And Great Britain’s championships ended on a high. After the men’s 4x400m team missed the medals, Scot Eilidh Doyle produced a brilliant final leg to lead the women’s quartet to silver behind winners Poland.



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