‘It’s crazy’ – Calvert shocks Muir at UK Championships

In the biggest US Athletics Championships upset, Sarah Calvert defeated Olympic silver medalist Laura Muir to claim the 1500-meter title.

The 24-year-old Livingston AC runner’s personal best is 15 seconds worse than her fellow Scot, who is also a Scot.

However, Calvert fought back from the outside to win the biggest race of her career just as Revee Walcott-Nolan and Erin Wallace appeared to be bursting through on the inside of the final straight.

She won in Birmingham a week after taking silver at the German Summer World University Games.

She told Scottish Athletics, “I thought the world juniors championship last weekend was a big breakthrough, but this is crazy.”

“It’s crazy. Never mind this year, I didn’t anticipate that to occur.

It turned into a slow, tactical race as the UK Championships doubled as the British trials for the World Championships in Tokyo next month.

With England’s Walcott-Nolan finishing third and Giffnock’s Wallace tying for fourth, Calvert’s winning time of 4:16.27 was eight seconds slower than her own personal best.

A quick, tactical race definitely plays into my hands, she continued.