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Laura Muir and Jake Wightman made it a memorable Scottish double at Sunday’s 5th Avenue Mile in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n European 1500m champion Muir, 29, crossed the line in a course record time of four minutes 14.8 seconds, a long way in front of American duo Nikki Hiltz and Eleanor Fulton.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Fellow Scot Jemma Reekie, who won the event last year, was fourth.<\/span><\/p>\n Wightman, 28, defended his 2021 title to add to his 2018 success, finishing in a time of 3:49.6.<\/span><\/p>\n England’s Jake Hayward was second, with American Sam Prakel in third place.<\/span><\/p>\n Wightman, who won 1500m World Championship gold in July, before taking Commonwealth bronze at the same distance and a European silver over 800m, said: “I couldn’t have asked for it to go any better, to finish my season here at my favourite meet of the year.”<\/span><\/p>\n Muir won a second 1500m European gold this summer after winning the Commonwealth title and earning bronze at the Worlds. The Olympic silver medallist also gathered an 800m Commonwealth bronze in Birmingham.<\/span><\/p>\n