British middle-distance pair Laura Muir and Keely Hodgkinson are aiming to shatter world records

British middle-distance duo Laura Muir and Keely Hodgkinson are bidding to break world records at Saturday’s World Indoor Tour Final in Birmingham.

Olympic 1500m silver medallist Muir desires to set a brand new indoor greatest within the 1000m, eclipsing the 2mins 30.94secs set by Maria Mutola 24 years in the past.

The Scot, 29, ran the second quickest 1000m of all time on this occasion in Birmingham six years in the past, a second shy of Mutola’s mark.

And Muir mentioned: ‘I feel I’m in a very great spot. The final time I competed within the kilometre in Birmingham I received the European report, so hopefully I can go one additional.

‘I’ve raced the km a few occasions since then, together with as soon as outside in Monaco, the place I truly ran sooner than the world report time indoors, so I do know bodily I can do it.’

British duo Keely Hodgkinson (left) and Laura Muir (proper) are bidding for world report success on the weekend

Hodgkinson (pictured) is aiming to set a brand new world report within the 800m on the World Indoor Tour Final

Hodgkinson, in the meantime, hopes to get shut to the indoor 800m world report, which was set by Jolanda Ceplak on March 3, 2002 – the day the younger Brit was born.

The 20-year-old is in fantastic kind having damaged the 600m world report in Manchester final month.

Hodgkinson additionally broke the British indoor 800m report in Birmingham final yr with a run of 1min 57.20secs and has this yr’s world-leading time. Ceplak’s world report is 1min 55.82secs.

‘It’s my twenty first birthday subsequent week and the world report was set on the precise day I used to be born 21 years in the past, which is sort of cool,’ she mentioned.

Muir can be hoping her trophy-winning kind can encourage her to a brand new world report time within the 1000m

Hodgkinson (crimson and white) additionally admitted she would love to race in opposition to Muir within the 1000m occasion

‘I feel I am in pretty good shape and I feel if the perfect, smooth race was to happen, I could get close to it.

‘It is a very hard world record to break, but I will go out and do my best and see what happens.’

Hodgkinson additionally says she would love to face-off with Muir over the 1000m sooner or later.

‘We will have to set it up to find out who would win,’ she added. ‘We don’t race one another that a lot, so coming collectively over these random distance can be fairly thrilling.’